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  1. Hello These are the adventures of myself and my dog Millie as we hunt for fossils and history along the Peace River. Our mode of travel is our 12’ Indian River Canoe, Balance. Im a 4th generation Polk county native, and Millie comes from a long line of Colorado ranch dogs. We do everything together. Including work, as I am a farrier for my day job, and the farm owners are more excited to see Millie than me! The goal of this journal is to document the learning along with the adventures. To go below our sieves, and learn why the river is presenting as it is. Other members have already posted pictures and info on every fossil I’m likely to find, but the river can still teach me/us why the hole I’m digging is delivering specific materials. Understanding what happened before what happened, happened. That’s what I want to know! Millie and I have been gifted this river and the ability to run it at a moments notice. That’s not the case for everyone. Even with access I still only get out for a morning or so a week. So this journal will also provide an avenue for those who can’t just jump in the boat with us. Jump in through this forum and help out along the way when you can/want. The more we learn the better the treasure!! Jp & Mille LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN! Season opener - Oct 2023 water depth day of - 8’ and falling. Like most things I’m impatient about, starting Fossil hunting this year was rushed. Millie and I ran head on into a river that’s a solid 3’ too high for me to handle any real working conditions. There’s places to work. We just haven’t found many at these depths! Yet!! After work arrived and we got started towards the river. Late arrival and definitely some dark water running ahead but at this water height you just gotta keep the boat in the middle. Got in late but just in time for a welcome back from the Peace! We woke up ready! Well, I did. Camp and my “Field Office” ready. Now to get wet! Because of the water depth I tied leashes to all the heavy tools and tied some extra pool noodle to them. That way I could drop them and just pull up the leader. Brought the “Velvet Touch” probe. No stopping us now! “What” I was after wasn’t an option this trip. I had only two available spots in mind that would be under 4’ deep. Both those spots are in a very recent deposit that I’ve been getting lots of Pleistocene and some Pliocene mammal material from. I ended up finding the time frame expected, and possibly an extinct sand shark nursery area. The river had sifted one spot completely away during the last flood so I was left with only one place to put in effort! At 4’ it was at my cap for height. I’m 5’6’’ and I could only dig 2 feet down before I ran out of shovel. So I had to figure something out. First I tried to fill the sieve on the River bottom and lift it up. FAIL! never got it to stay put long enough to do anything productive before I’d loose it and it would pop up down stream pulling on the leash. Next I tried to lift the gravel to the sifter on the surface. There was so much water the shovel load was gone before I broke the surface! FAIL! At a max depth of 2 feet down I wasn’t going to be learning much about the geography or layers I needed to work through. So I shifted gears and decided to focus on just the top 2’ as effectively as I could. The third try ended up succeeding. I would loosen the riverbed into a loose filled hole that had collapsed on itself and then use my scoop on a pole thing to transfer the loose material up to the surface. Not the best method but I’m grateful to have been able to stand there all day. I’d work forward 3’ and over 1’ then back again. All at 2’ or less deep or I’d go under. I suppose if I feel like moving a bunch of river bed again we could come back here and go deeper! One of my questions about this area is what is it old enough to find within it? Another trip! Here’s the gratuitous highlights shot! Not a bad day! The alligator tooth got a yell but the sand tigers and mammal teeth got me really excited. Millie and I were exhausted and COLD! I learned a few things this weekend to put in the journal. Before that. Let’s eat! Steak for me and steak for Millie. Yumm. Lessons: 1. I need appropriate clothes. Like wet suit stuff. Can’t be under water like that all day again. I got chilly and had to warm up several times. 85deg out too! What I wear is fine for knee deep wading but definitely time to upgrade the wardrobe. (I did try my new dive boots and that was the only part of me that wasn’t cold) 2. Regular shovel handles are way too short. Amend as needed to your stature. I need a 12’ handle to dig a hole in this water. So I’m out! 3. Jack, (Shellseeker) is insane!! This was my first time hunting this deep and it’s right in his sweet spot. You’re an animal! He tried to assist my tool tuning but until you run out of shovel that’s a new feeling to adjust to. 4. At two feet deep this area is where I will come for younger land aged fauna and I can expect the standard peace river sharks teeth assemblage with a higher than usual volume of sand sharks teeth. This was a great day hunting and I learned a lot. Maybe not about what my intended question was or the areas I’ve been thinking of but a ton about gear and technique! KEEP THE FAITH AND TRY TO DO GOOD!! Jp & Millie Here are the finds from this trip and some info used to figure out the unknowns. sand shark and some Hemi Serra Peace River mix fun and unique things - The mammal molar ended up being a Giant Tapir. By shape and size 3rd or 4th premolar. No root. Should have given it away. Mixed bag bottom to top of left- Gator tooth gator tooth Crappy Barbra’s incisor Canine- size 22mm broken suggest coyote or smaller domestic dog. 25mm would be the target. Tiny molar - it’s broken but by the face and measurements it’s most likely a rodent. Camel type tooth frag. Upper right - various tiger shark species to identify with Florida fossil hunters PDF middle - two deer horn buttons. One I already had but these were found 5 feet apart. Same deer?!? Bottom right- Eocene snail and crab shell fragments. Those are 37.5 Mya.?? Snail identification was general to the Ocala formation results of similar snail species.
  2. alittledog

    Hello All!

    Just saying hello. Been doing adventures with my family in Colorado, but now branching out on taking my special needs son on further out trips. Once I figure out where to post, I’ll post less detailed places we hunt closer to Denver.
  3. Arc61

    Hi from Mass!

    Hi fellow fossil lovers! Newbie here, happy to be a member of this forum. Looking forward to sharing and learning. Always had a deep love for fossils since I found my first one at 10 years old. Also interested in paleontology, geology and history. Cheers, Arc
  4. As the title implies - I had a very busy and exciting spring break. Big news first - I confirmed plans this June to intern with a small paleo company, "Fossil excavators", in North Dakota for two weeks digging up a sub-adult T. rex, which was found right at the end of the season last year. We'll be exploring more than just that though, as the hell creek dig sites accessible to them are rife with life. A unique Triceratops horridus specimen, nicknamed "Alice", who's an adult missing all indication of its right horn (perhaps hox gene mutation, perhaps an injury as a hatchling, it's not known yet, as preparation is still underway) was found close by at the same site, as well as adult rex material. In our zoom interview, they also asked about the Mosasaur Christian and I found in September, and I jumped at the chance to get to talk about it. For those still curious, progress has been sloooooow but consistent. I went back to the site to poke around more at the pit just out of a "what if" notion, and found much more of the skull and skeleton. There's still skeletal material in there, but the full on dig has been getting postponed for a while. We do finally have a date in mind though! Anyway, here's a link about Alice below - I'm obviously super excited, and also specifically excited to work with Harry. I'll probably try to plant myself as firmly as possible into assisting with their unrelated (to the interns) projects as I can. P.S. - It'll make the coolest trip report ever https://abcnews.go.com/US/biology-student-helps-discover-65-million-year-triceratops/story?id=64562977 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now on to my week of fossil hunts: Early on, I decided to explore a new creek with Ozan strata. I had high hopes but got mostly skunked - can't win them all. I'm mostly including it here because the grandiosity of the exposure impressed me, and perhaps some invertebrate lovers will have an appreciation for the oysters I saw there: In between balancing friends and rock climbing, I found another time to hunt a day or two later - this time a much more familiar spot that has unfortunately been receiving increasing attention. The low water and ample foot prints told me first how picked over it would be, but despite that, I made some uncommon finds I was happy with: First, this point, the smallest I've ever found, and no doubt an actual bow and arrow point, rather than an Atlatl point like all others I find. I don't know the type yet, but it's an impressive little piece that was sitting right beside somebody's foot print: Pleased with myself, I then found another piece of Columbian mammoth tooth enamel - this is only the third I've ever seen, and the three I have found have all been within the same 100 meter stretch of creek - I'm dying to find where they're coming from. The next day, I decided to solve just that problem. The plan was to hit the hard-to-explore upstream area where I knew there ought to be a small Pleistocene exposure. Those who have seen my posts on the forum a lot probably know well by now that if I have a sworn nemesis, it's the Pleistocene. I have so much trouble finding Pleistocene exposures that I take it personally at this point The team was myself, my step-brother christian, who always proves to be good luck on the expeditions we do together, and my friend Siri, who on her very first outing, discovered that bi-face that some may remember from an earlier report. I'd call that good luck as well. I had only explored the stretch of creek we were on once before, and that was in a mad dash, as the day was closing on me quickly when I initially scouted it. Through the bramble thickets and thigh deep creek walking, we started making our first few finds: Christian with an interesting cretaceous fish tooth, ID undecided: Myself with a nice Squalicorax, maybe S. kaupi Siri walking an exposure below: An interesting piece of cretaceous shark cartilage Siri spotted, ID'd first by @ThePhysicist Then, things started getting exciting when we stumbled upon a wealth of Bison material: Below, three ribs weathering out of the bank - the ribs themselves weren't diagnostic, but the positive ID on the Bison tooth shown next only a few feet away means that these ribs are probably associated with it. Siri spotted those above, and Christian close by spotted a large leg bone in the same layer. As we round the corner, I noticed a deeply weathered bone in a layer that was a few feet higher coming out of the bank - blowing on it, I saw teeth! It was a lower jaw. Now, before you get your hopes up, this jaw did come from a higher layer, and I've decided after cleaning that I think it's most likely cow - the stylids on the teeth in the jaw don't look the stylids on my confirmed Bison teeth. Bummer - but I didn't know that yet! It took three days in total of short trips when I had the time, to get it out in tact, and it made for a really euphoric experience while doing so, considering the beautiful area it was in. I will still upload a picture of the teeth later, just in case my cow ID could be wrong Below, the initial revealing of the jaw, with christian working to extract a vertebra in the background: The jaw after I completely revealed it when I came back two days later: Fast forward to two days ago. I was exploring an Eagle Ford spot in a dingey little creek that produces magnificent fossils, like my largest tooth from anything to date, a Xiphactinus partial tooth. This time, instead of splitting open mudstone, I poked around in gravel a bit, and lo and behold, I quickly came across a stunner (to me) Cretoxyrhina mantelli. I am not good at finding large representatives of this species, even though the teeth from this animal have the potential to reach 2.7 inches in length. This is likely my largest C. mantelli tooth in terms of mass, and I love the colors. I also found what what has the potential to be a decently sized tooth in matrix, in the queue to be prepped out soon. A follow up trip the day after was less successful, with a few of the now usual Ptychodus anonymous teeth showing themselves, and a chunk of Pleistocene tooth - crossing my fingers for horse, but in reality it's probably un ID'able. It's funny to call a shark tooth "usual" for me now, many of you may remember when seeing even a piece of a Ptychodus tooth in central texas would have made me lose my mind. Today's classes were cancelled, as my professor had an important appointment, so I spent the day neglecting my other pressing responsibilities and drove around frivolously, exploring new wild areas. I was dodging a thunderstorm that kept finding me and soaking me, and at one point had to hop a curb to hide under a tree with my car to avoid the hail. I decided to go and check out another Eagle Ford spot 15 minutes from my house right as the worst of the evening storm passed again, and as I pulled into the neighborhood that the spot bordered, I was met with views of torn out fences, ripped up shingles, and also much later with blown out windows, caved in garage doors, and in some concentrated areas, portions of roofs lifted. A tornado had barged through the neighborhood 40 minutes before I got there. At first, on the way in, I only saw the area of lighter damage, the worst being uprooted oak trees, as is usual with our normal strong spring storms. I saw neighbors walking about investigating it, but I had no idea it was a proper tornado that came through. Seeming I thought it was just storm damage at this point, I anyway walked down to my spot and hunted to no success - I did however see another deep black/brown cloud coming in, and noticed what I thought were tornado sirens for a few seconds. As I drove out, I took a different route, and saw the heavier damage, (the torn up roof portions and caved in garages). I pulled over to help the neighbors clean some of the worse hit areas before it got dark, and then tried driving back to see if my house is ok. Turns out the neighborhood I helped in didn't even get it the worst, another neighborhood just south of them and 8 or so minutes from me got super badly hit, with fully uplifted roofs and everything. Roads were iffy and it took many detours, but I was able to confirm that my house and chickens were fine when I eventually got back. I've been home alone for a few days, so my parents had no idea that our town got hit. Christian was a little jealous he missed it Here's some footage of the twister itself, for those curious. The debris is when it hit the shopping center where the bank is. The tornado picked up and dropped down several times, and the path it took in the video would've taken it to my neighborhood in less than a minute if it didn't pick up, as the road this angle looks on is only a few minutes away. Definitely got lucky! It's amazing no one was seriously injured. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/live-blog-severe-storms-expected-to-move-through-central-texas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anyway, there's a lot to unpack there, an exciting one week for sure! I also had tons of non- fossil related fun, rock climbing hard and staying up until the sun came out with friends back from college. What a week it was.
  5. Brookelynnoddart

    Coldwater, MS fossils

    I have discovered these in Coldwater, MS in a nearby gully I frequently go to for these amazing finds. If Anyone has some great insight into what they are for sure, I would greatly appreciate knowing how much or if they are worth anything ?
  6. BentonlWalters

    The Burgess Shale

    I’ve decided to take a break from dissertation writing and write up something else instead, one of the greatest fossil hunts I’ve been on, my trip to the Burgess Shale. Its been a little while since I got to go but here is the story as I remember it. I’ll write this up in a few parts since I took a lot of pictures and I’m going through and editing them as I go. Part 1: Going on an Adventure A little bit of background to start off. When I was younger (around 12 I think) I got the opportunity to go to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Of all of the displays my favourite was a small board under glass with a half a dozen or so small dark slabs of shale, the museums display of the fossils of the Burgess Shale. I can’t remember if there actually was a Pikaia on display but I distinctly remember the Pikaia and when it came time to exit through the gift shop I went the book which had the closest looking thing on the cover. That book, needless to say, was Stephan Jay Gould’s ‘Wonderful Life’, a book which was admittedly a little above my reading level at the time but one that I was enthralled with nonetheless. I knew that one day I had to go see where they came from for myself. Fast forward to five years ago now, I had finished high school a few months previously and was one week away from starting university. For my graduation present I had been given tickets for a guided tour, my father and I were going, I was going to get to see the Walcott Quarry in the Burgess Shale. The whole trip was going to take three days, my father’s car (a beaten up red Ford Windstar which we weren’t sure was going to survive the trip) was packed was packed with tents, a small amount of other camping gear, my trusty blue backpack, and the requisite 5lb bag of trail mix and we set off on our way since the driving would take the better part of the first day. The folks at the border were a little suspicious when we told them we were going to Banff for only two days but after a half an hour or so of checking over the car we were allowed on our way again into Canada. After a few hours we started to get into the Rockies. Growing up in western Washington I’m used to big mountains but while the Cascades were large these were different. I took a few pictures out the car window, the sharp treeless peaks of some almost looked a little like teeth. After a long day’s drive we reached our campsite, just a few miles away from the parking lot where the tour would start the next day and set up camp. The next morning we were up with the sun. Our tour group consisted of about 8 of us in total, my father and I and a handful of others, mostly retired petroleum geologists. Just a few minutes up the trail and the scenery was already breath-taking with a waterfall thundering over the nearby rock face. Soon we had properly left civilisation behind and after about an hour or so of hiking, stopped at the edge of a crystal clear glacial melt water lake where the ranger went over a little about geologic time, using the ever popular calendar analogy (that humans have been around only for a few hours on the last day of the year compared to the age of the rocks we were going to see). The hiking became tougher as the incline increased, through the forest. I’d been on a fair number of hikes during my many years with scouts but I was definitely out of practice compared with the rest of the group, mostly septuagenarians, who seemed to make it up the trail like they were part mountain goat. After another little while there was a sign on the side of the trail and even though the surrounding mountains were shaded by the trees I knew we were getting closer. We stopped briefly to go over the regulations of the area, there is of course no civilian collecting in the Burgess Shale. The ranger also explained how rare the soft bodied preservation present was and passed around a map dotted with the locations of all the spots on the globe with Burgess Shale type preservation. I quickly took a picture in case I was ever nearby another one before we started on our way again. Continued in Part 2 . . .
  7. GallinaPinta

    San Sebastian Limestone

    So I went to this river thinking i was going to have a blast cannon balling into the deepest areas except I found an excellent specimen and spent the rest of my day collecting amazing fossils.
  8. WilliamT1974

    Hunting near Chattanooga, TN

    Hello everyone, This is my first post here. I live near Chattanooga, TN, and consider myself fortunate to live in this area due to its scenic beauty and recreational opportunities. We've come a long way in the last 30 years, and I would encourage anyone who wants an outdoor adventure to come here and check us out. Now, fall's coming, and with that may come cooler weather, which means a great time for outdoor activities. I would like to go fossil hunting close to home. We're in a pretty geologically diverse area here, though most of the knowledge from my college Historical Geology class taken over 25 years ago seems to have deserted my brain. But we have alot of chert, limestone, sedimentary rock, mountains, rock outcroppings, and the famous Chattanooga Shale formation. There is also the drive up Hwy 111 onto the plateau. One the way up, I've seen more than a few shale outcroppings that appear to have just barely missed turning into coal. So, for those in the know, are there some good fossil hunting areas in the Chattanooga area or within an hour's drive? Finding a trilobite would be a great prize, but I've found small crinoid stem fossils in my gravel driveway. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, -William
  9. SearchingThePast

    PA fossil sites

    Hello everyone! Thanks for taking a minute to read this. Heading over to Maryland this weekend for some fossil hunting. I was hoping to get some guidance on some spots in PA. Which we are planning on heading to on Tuesday (June 18th). Would like to know if there are any areas where we could find some plant fossils. I know from doing some research the areas may be limited. It's our first time collecting plant fossils so any tips would be appreciated as well! Thank you!
  10. umair sarwar

    Please help to identify the fossil

    i went to wonderful sulaiman ranges of pakistan for fossil hunt. there i found many bone like fossils in late eocene succession.kindly help me to identify the fossil.
  11. Paleo-shark_hunter

    Prehistoric Planet

    Prehistoric Planet, a land lost in time. Multi-millionaire Dennis Cooper has been researching the Bermuda triangle for years, then he finally realizes where the different ships and planes have disappeared to; they have been sent back in time. After years of work, he finally accomplishes his dream, a time portal that leads to the age of Dinosaurs. Cooper has set up base on an island, he calls it, “Prehistoric Planet” but only known to the Public as “Project X”. After years of research, and all the latest technology, something has gone terribly wrong. Someone inside Prehistoric Planet is pulling some dangerous strings, and it’s only a matter of time before the time portal closes, forever... (Excerpt from Prehistoric Planet) Jonathan has noticed that the climate is slightly warmer, and more humid than before the flash occurred, but maybe it was side effects from whatever had just happened. The boat finally comes to a complete stop beside the dock, and they begin to unload. As they get off the boat, Dennis points out a gas powered jeep, “We will be riding in those” He said Jonathan looks in the direction Dennis is pointing, the jeeps are light brown in color with designs of leaves and trees around the edges. Inside, the seats are covered in water proof leather, six seats in all. Jonathan glances around the car, it has state of the art technology, and bumper to bumper it is covered in many electronic devices that he has never seen before. He sees the Jeep has an automatic shift, with a touch screen between the drivers and passenger seat, and in some of the pockets he can see multiple field guides. He takes a closer look at the books, and notices they are field guides to dinosaurs, prehistoric animals and plants, and prehistoric environments. He flips through one of the books, they are full of notes jotted down, it looks like they are correcting the books in some way. But why would they need to correct these books, it was all rather odd to Jonathan. Jonathan continues to inspect the car, and his eyes are drawn to the large off-road tires, “Wow” he said in shock, he’s never seen such off-road tires before, they look like they could be used for virtually every kind of environment the Earth would have to offer. Jonathan especially impressed with how strong the metal was on the outside of the car, it felt like titanium, and yet, the two inches of titanium had dents in it. Jonathan looks at the dents, trying to figure out what could have caused them. Lex and Dennis are already in the car, beckoning him to join them. Jonathan hops into the car and takes a seat beside Lex in the back of the jeep; a pair of binoculars hangs from the seat in front of him. He looks at Lex, who is looking behind her; a sleek metal case sits comfortably in the trunk, it is covered in several warning labels. She looks at the driver in confusion, whose face is covered in freckles, and his red hair can be seen sticking out of the edges of his Atlanta Braves baseball cap. She taps him on the shoulder, and he looks at her through a pair of dark sunglasses, “What’s this?” asked Lex, gesturing to the box “That”, said the driver over his shoulder “is a tranquilizer gun” “What’s it for?” “Protection” he said with a smile Jonathan looks back at the case with the tranquilizer inside, he notices one of the labels says that it contains wildnil, a fluid used to sedate animals as large as elephants, but the dosage listed on the label is almost twice as much. Jonathan continues looking at the label in confusion, what kind of animal needs that much wildnil? The cars continue to drive along the dirt road that leads into the jungle. Lex looks around; this jungle is much different from jungles she has seen in the past. Her grandfather had taken her too many jungles around the world, yet she didn’t recognize many of these plants. The Island had a tropical environment, with lots of exotic plants. The jungle was alive with sound, hoots and squeals from different animals, she has even noticed in some places steam is simply raising from the ground. “Why is there steam coming out of the ground in some places?” asked Lex “Ahh yes, the Island is Volcanic” Said Dennis, “This part of the island has some steam vents, but other parts have more steam, and a few geysers” “Volcanic?” Said Jonathan in worry “Don’t worry”, Said Dennis calmly, “The volcano hasn’t been active in a couple hundred years, there’s nothing to worry about” The cars continued along the dirt path that seemed to cut right into the jungle, Jonathan can see that the road has been cut as level as possible, and covered nicely with a layer of gravel, the ride is still quite bumpy. Now I know why they needed those tires, thought Jonathan with a smile. “Take us to the prairie” Dennis said to the driver, “There should still be some there” what should be there? “So where exactly are we?” asks Jonathan “You’ll see soon enough” Dennis replies with a smile. The jeep continued along a path, and then took a right turn. The climate has begun to change a little since they first arrived, a majority of the island was tropical, but now it was changing to a more savanna like ecology. The trees were becoming more spread apart, and they could see the open grassland just beyond the trees. As they drove through the last of the trees and into the grassland, the car slowed to a stop. Jonathan looks around, the grassland stretches for miles, and in the distance he can see mountains, covered in a heavy fog. To the east, rising above the palm trees, Jonathan noticed a single trunk with no leaves, just an enormous, twisted trunk. Then the stump began to move, and then it twisted around to face the new arrivals. They realized they were looking at the long, curving neck of an enormous animal, rising fifty feet into the air. They were looking at a Dinosaur. - - - - - “Wow” Lex said softly the first thought that occurred to her was how beautiful and extraordinary the creature was. Dinosaurs were normally portrayed as dumpy, frightening animals, but this long-necked animal had gracefulness in all its movements. The sauropod peered alertly at them and made a low moaning sound, rather like a whale. As if in reply, more heads appeared above the treetops, a third, and then a fourth! The animals were huge! Big as a house! The Dinosaurs continued to graze amongst the tree tops, and with their long, moaning cries. Jonathan began to laugh “What is it?” asked Dennis in worry, “Is something wrong?” Jonathan just shook his head; he was astonished by the fact that he was actually seeing a dinosaur. He was still laughing when a fifth and a sixth head rose above the trees. The Sauropods watched the people arrive; they reminded Jonathan of oversized cows. They had the same pleasant, rather clueless gaze, and stood there, grazing in the trees. From the distance, they heard their long, graceful calls again, echoing through the air. “There beautiful” whispered Lex One of the juvenile Sauropods approaches them cautiously, gazing at them through its large brown eyes. Jonathan is amazed at the size, even though it is still an infant, it towers above them, and Jonathan estimates the height to be about twelve feet tall. It makes a short trumpeting cry as it continues to inspect the humans. One of the adult dinosaurs replies, beckoning it back to the herd. The young sauropod glances at them one more time, then slowly, but gracefully, lumbered back towards the herd. Lex watched as the adults gently welcomed the juvenile back with nudges and sniffs. Johnson quickly made his way towards Lex and Jonathan, “Guys, we should probably proceed to the compound” “Yes, it’s about time” The group climbs back into the Jeep as it begins to drive back into the jungle. Lex and Jonathan continue to watch the dinosaurs, until they can see them no more. Jonathan looks up as the jeep passes under a large, steel archway with bold letters that read, “Prehistoric Planet”
  12. Paleo-shark_hunter

    Prehistoric Planet: The Extinction

    ---Prologue--- Milky Way Galaxy 25,000 years ago A spiral galaxy, one of the billions of islands of stars moving across the dark matter that is known as the universe, it rotates like a huge galactic wheel, pulling countless stars within its titanic gravitational pull. This particular galaxy is known as the Milky Way, 100,000 light-years across and 1,000 light-years thick. Like a grain of sand pulled by an ocean current, an asteroid races through the galaxy. The asteroid measures nearly seven miles in diameter, and has been moving through the galaxy since the dawn of time, passing planets and other asteroids. It is now on a collision course with a medium sized planet. The planet is still millions of miles away, but the asteroid is approaching quickly. The planet is warm and tropical, and also has an abundant source of water, oxygen, and life. The asteroid hurdles towards Earth, nothing can stop it. When it impacts, it will cause world-wide destruction and chaos. The countdown to extinction has begun.
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