Excessively Interested In Dinosaurs

We stood in the Roman ruins that, like patchwork, stitch so remarkably through the village of Caer-went, and dutifully read the information boards. The Romans had forcibly built and established Venta Silurum with the intention of Pacifying the Silurians, the local tribe.

“I think I feel weird now, about the Doctor Who aliens being called Silurians,” I said, “it’s sort of uncomfortable having ‘lizard people from the dawn of time’ being named after Celts. Tips into that bad-faith lizard-person space.”

“The BBC would have only been thinking of the Silurian period,” Dr Glass said neutrally. “That’s a fair siting for a ‘dawn of time.’ The Cambrian would’ve been uncomfortable and impractical.”

“Was the geological period of Palaeozoic life named after the tribe?” I said. “Hey, given that the Cambrian period is the Cambrian period! It must’ve been.”

“Haha - wait - look - look at the north!!”

“Damn! The whole-ass Ordovician period?!”

“Over to England for the Devonian,” Dr Glass, who claims Devonshire heritage on one side, said thoughtfully. “Permian, that’s Perm - probably the mountain range.”

Anyway, this proceeded to amuse me for a few days, and will be required to enjoy these jokes

It's not just the UK though, you can see it all over the geological timescale:

Aptain - named for Apt in France

Albian - named for the River Aube, derived from its Latin name Alba

Furongian - named for Hunan Province, known as "the lotus state", derived from Mandarin 'fúróng' meaning 'lotus'

Guadalupian - named for the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas/New Mexico

Maastrichtian - named for the city Maastricht in Netherlands

yes with an exception: when kangaroos are on land, they use their legs together for hopping, but when they swim, they alternate which leg is kicking just like humans and dogs do!

so they CAN, they just don't unless they think they need to.

They were so differently proportioned, and some species grew so large, than hopping like a modern kangaroo was probably physically impossible for them, so researchers have proposed that they walked bipedally instead!

There are multiple delightfully cursed reconstructions of this behaviour which makes them look more like a person running around pretending to be a dinosaur than anything else

I will find you in every life (threat)

I am forever fascinated by the arms race between coelurosaurs and ceratopsians. Among the most famous rivals in palaeomedia growing up was Velociraptor and Protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, and of course I had to add two of my faves, Gorgosaurus and Styracosaurus!

Marsh guardian 🍃🌱

Utahraptor day!! I had a lot of fun with this one <3

Admiring Disney's Dinosaur (2000)

Ik not too many are fond of this movie but I am due to how much the graphics were mesmerizing