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Locale: East Texas, near Galveston Found: January 2021, backyard at sisters home Matrix: coprolite(?), sandstone(?), eggyolk(?) Well. These past couple of weeks have been most interesting. What started out as an "artifact" find recently, turned into a mind blowing journey which brought out wants and needs in me pertaining to paleontology that have been suppressed for decades! I guess that pictures really do write a thousand words, so without further ado:
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A Study in Pareidolia. NEW MEMBERS READ THIS PLEASE!
Auspex posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Offered through the link is one of our occasional interactions with someone who is either trolling TFF (great sport, apparently), or somewhat overwhelmed with runaway pareidolia. Our responses are also typical of how TFF works; presentations of the facts without any mockery or derision. We are here to help anyone seeking answers that are within our sphere of knowledge, but sometimes logic cannot prevail. >LINK<- 1 reply
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Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired Giant Myths
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Cyclops and Dragon Tongues: How Real Fossils Inspired Giant Myths By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, July 18, 2017 https://www.livescience.com/59837-how-real-fossils-inspired-giant-myths.html Romano, M. and Avanzini, M., 2017. The skeletons of Cyclops and Lestrigons: misinterpretation of Quaternary vertebrates as remains of the mythological giants. Historical Biology, pp. 1-24. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2017.1342640 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317896323_The_skeletons_of_Cyclops_and_Lestrigons_misinterpretation_of_Quaternary_vertebrates_as_remains_of_the_mythological_giants Another paper is: Agnesi, V., Di Patti, C. and Truden, B., 2007. Giants and elephants of Sicily. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 273(1), pp. 263-270. https://iris.unipa.it/retrieve/handle/10447/18688/41318/Giants and Elephants of Sicily.pdf Yours, Paul H.