Pagurus Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Today I found a fossil duck. I knew you'ld all exclaim, "What luck!""Unbelievable!" I hear you say in a semi-pseudo-serious way. Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raggedy Man Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Lol that's great! ...I'm back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Now that's really once in a million! A rare find indeed! Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Congratulations,very rare indeed, not an everyday find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Just ducky. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 this quacks me up. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFOOLEY Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I see, you're just fowling around. "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" ~Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dead things Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 I find a lot of Rock Ducks in my neck of the woods, but they are hard to catch and don't swim very well . Jim Old Dead Things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggieCie Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 M R DUCK O S A B. Say it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 Thank you all for pekin at my rare find. I would like to include it in a duckumentary. It might be a little lame but I guess I'll just wing it. Thanks for all the wise quacks, and I really do like your rock duck, Jim. It took me awhile, Ziggie, but I finally understood. Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Not only did you find a duck with soft parts preserved, it's smoking! Soft part anatomy and behavior in the same fossil! What an extraordinary find!. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagurus Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 Not only did you find a duck with soft parts preserved, it's smoking! Soft part anatomy and behavior in the same fossil! What an extraordinary find!. Don I'm impressed by your keen observation, Don. I believe the smoke trace is known as Anas pyroichnus. Of course they are especially rare in public buildings nowadays. Mike Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 It's better than you think; it's a baby penguin! "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...
Pagurus Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 Penguin? My first reaction was fowl play in this starling startling tern of events, and I must admit my feathers were a bit ruffled when Auspex made his pronouncement, robin me of my fossil duck, but I must defer to our resident knower of all things avian. There it is, in black and white, a baby penguin. Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDAWG Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 I can see the penguin, but would a baby be smoking? I think it's an adult, but of a species with a small adult body size. Also it has a pretty tough expression on it's face, almost raptor-like. A diminutive smoking penguin with lots of "machismo". May we also infer a bit of a "Napoleon Complex"? "I may be small but I'm tough, don't mess with me!". Still more behavior from this remarkable fossil! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datguy Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Wow, you guys sure can quack up some jokes. And, nice find there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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