The College of Charleston has a small, free museum with fossils and lots of information. We took Duncan and Toby a couple of months ago and Toby was just amazed!
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By Brian James Maguire · Posted
Hi philip, I didn’t do anything special, just uploaded it from my phone, i clicked on the arrow above just now and it played straight away
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By Philip Rutter 2 · Posted
Hi- That's a great video- and today its presence is confusing me. When I first ran into it, a day or two ago- it displayed just fine on the page, had the typical little click-arrow, and all worked seamlessly right in place. Had a splash screen with a thumbnail and the statement that it was a QuickTime movie. Today- nice paperclip icon, no thumbnail, and it automatically made me download all 51 megabytes before I could see anything.
My point- I tried for several days a couple weeks ago to upload an iPhone video of about the same size; on my blog space here- and it totally refused to work, ever; I had to give up.
Did you perform any magical tricks to get it to work in the first place? Mine never did; and today I am again rather desperately wanting to be able to make and show short videos here- my "whole animal" fossils are just insanely difficult to comprehend from flat photographs; which I proved to myself once again yesterday - showing all sides just gets more confusing. Trying to show transitions from side A to side B - proves endlessly disappointing.
Did you upload yours directly from the Cloud? I did not- I avoid the Cloud and uploaded (failed) from my MacBook - I got an icon saying it was there, but then when trying to play only got the message "cannot find what you're looking for." Any hints on making movies work here would be greatly appreciated!
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By C2fossils · Posted
Nice finds! And nice display frame as well!
-Cal
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By Moth.11 · Posted
Cool frame!!!
I have a display case with teeth of reptiles and fish from the Mesozoic and Paleogene. Maybe I'll post a photo on the forum someday when I have time to write a description for everyone. My laptop is broken, which makes it more difficult to complete my work. And I would also like to include the tooth of the megalosaur that I would like to buy.
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By Psittacosaurus · Posted
It is indeed very abundant. The Panda-Stegodon fauna ranges from Southern China to Southeast Asia but I believe the most fossiliferous locations are still in the Guangxi and Guizhou provinces of Southern China.
Reasons for these teeth being in the caves:
1. Carried by underground waters
2. Animal seeking shelter in here but ended up getting trapped
3. Most importantly, it's difficult for these to fossilize outside, where they can be destroyed by other animals/microorganisms/weathering. Inside the caves the temperature would be quite stable and if there are less bats, there are relatively less amount of bacteria.
Most southern Chinese caves are limestone caves, meaning that the bones get eroded but the teeth crowns are heavily calcitized and look quite awesome when placed above a flashlight.
And yes, GIgantopithecus is extremely rare. You could even consider the Guangxi and Guizhou provinces as places where it's most abundant. Even still, it rarely turns up.
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By Psittacosaurus · Posted
Thank you so much! The credit all goes to my mom who carved out the silhouettes of these teeth on the black sponge background and inserted these teeth in:)
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By Philip Rutter 2 · Posted
Good lord, you can just pick up handfuls?? Is there a current consensus on how all these teeth (etc) got into the caves? Hard to see how stegodon bits are assorting with deer and pigs! Any additional evidence on hyaenas being the primary collectors? Water and humans always possible, and my favorite "all of the above" if you pick the right millennium. Is Gigantopithecus rare everywhere it's known? So many missing pieces to that puzzle.
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