bdevey Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Hope this hasn't been posted yet For those who haven't seen this, its amazing!! May not be fossil related? but I feel any mass death, can be. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diplotomodon Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 ...Wow! I never thought something like that was able to happen. It's like straight out of a 70's sci-fi program. It seems entirely possible for organisms on the ancient sea floor to be frozen like that and later preserved, What a wonderful menagerie! Who would believe that such as register lay buried in the strata? To open the leaves, to unroll the papyrus, has been an intensely interesting though difficult work, having all the excitement and marvelous development of a romance. And yet the volume is only partly read. Many a new page I fancy will yet be opened. -- Edward Hitchcock, 1858 Formerly known on the forum as Crimsonraptor @Diplotomodon on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erose Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Wow, just Wow.Most interesting thing I've learned in months. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickNC Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 It is very interesting but has nothing to do with fossils. Do mods ever move topics here? I constantly move them over on the forum where I am a mod. Just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranha Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Brilliant video that has quite a story to tell of taphonomic conditions encountered by ancient organisms . A BRINICLE?? WOW!! Thanks Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kehbe Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 That is wild! This earth is chock full of amazing stuff. I wonder how many mass exterminations of marine environments have been caused by this over the millions of years of freezing and thawing of the oceans. Especially during climactic shifts such as the ice age where you would have large areas affected. Really interesting stuff! Thanks Bdevey! Oh here is another video that has to do with ice and bivalves tho not really fossil related, just interesting I thought! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA <http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA> It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 There are more things in Heaven and Earth... Cool vids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Warren Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 On the contrary, it is prety relevant to how a mass death might occure in many geological ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I have never even heard of a brinicle before... when I first clicked the link I thought it was barnacle mispelled. Incredible stuff. Thanks for posting this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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