CraigHyatt Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 (edited) Let's take it easy on the old folk with poor eyesight. Hold your iPhone over a warm lightbulb and the writing will gradually appear. Edited August 11, 2016 by CraigHyatt Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hold your iPhone over a warm lightbulb and the writing will gradually appear. Huh? What is them things You talking about? Lightbulb? iPhone? Whatever they are I do not have them. Tony 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Yes. While scientists generally dislike the term, it is used in pop science media and the average person can learn something important. While on one hand you have people holding out hope that the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are going to be proven to exist someday (because it took a long time to discover the first coelacanth) , on the other, they understand that some organisms are more vulnerable to extinction because they are uncommon and live only in a small area. There was a good book about living fossils released a couple of years ago, "Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms" by Richard Fortey. That last sentence is the best answer IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Yes. While scientists generally dislike the term, it is used in pop science media and the average person can learn something important. While on one hand you have people holding out hope that the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot are going to be proven to exist someday (because it took a long time to discover the first coelacanth) , on the other, they understand that some organisms are more vulnerable to extinction because they are uncommon and live only in a small area. There was a good book about living fossils released a couple of years ago, "Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms" by Richard Fortey. I appreciate this thread. It got me thinking about the topic in a new light. One of the many benefits of this forum. :-) I will hunt up the book and read it. Thanks. Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 "I will hunt up the book and read it. Thanks." Those of us in the rest of the world outside of Texas will hunt down the book. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 "I will hunt up the book and read it. Thanks." Those of us in the rest of the world outside of Texas will hunt down the book. I like to think positive. :-) BTW, it's on iBooks but costs 13 bucks. Yikes! Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPS Ammonite Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 "I like to think positive. :-) BTW, it's on iBooks but costs 13 bucks. Yikes!" Try interlibrary loan. My goal is to leave no stone or fossil unturned. See my Arizona Paleontology Guide link The best single resource for Arizona paleontology anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigHyatt Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 (edited) "I like to think positive. :-) BTW, it's on iBooks but costs 13 bucks. Yikes!" Try interlibrary loan. No library in Eagle Pass. This is a tiny border town. I prefer the Barnes & Noble loan, but will have to wait until our next trip to San Antonio. :-)Well, we have a library, but it's closed for renovations.... Edited August 11, 2016 by CraigHyatt Info: Craig Hyatt, retired software/electrical engineer Experience: Beginner, fossil hunting less than a year Location: Eagle Pass, TX USA on the border with Mexico, hot dry desert Formation: Escondido, Marine, Upper Cretaceous Materials: Sandstone, Mudstone, Shale, Chert, Chalk Typical: Thalassinoides, Sphenodiscus, Exogyra, Inoceramus Reference: http://txfossils.com/Txfossils.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siteseer Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I bought it new minus a discount. Here's a book review: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/30824-horseshoe-crabs-and-velvet-worms-by-richard-fortey/?hl=horseshoe I like to think positive. :-) BTW, it's on iBooks but costs 13 bucks. Yikes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 The phrase "living fossil" arose to popularize organisms once thought to be extinct, but then rediscovered. "Living" and "fossil" are mutually exclusive terms, else wise. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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