Yesterday I read an article about an amateur fossil hunter who had discovered a 133 million year-old ‘pickled’ dinosaur brain. The man who found it, Jamie Hiscock, has a knack for this kind of thing: he and his brother five years ago also discovered the world’s oldest spider web, encased in amber.
I showed the photograph of their most recent find to my daughter, Millie. It shows the brain next to a coin, included for scale.
“Look at this, Millie. Someone has found a 133 million year-old dinosaur brain.”
She looked. “Wow-they’ve found two pence as well!”
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Thanks for sharing.
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She says the cutest things.
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That she does 🙂
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Actually, I thought the photo would turn out to be a coprolite! In any case, the shiny two pence certainly would appeal to the eyes of a child! Sweet.
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I had to look that word up. Sounds a bit fancy for, you know . . .
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One of the perks of having one of my degrees in Biology – a vocab that aptly describes all facets of organic life…HA!!!!
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🙂 🙂
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Smart kid 😉 two pence back then, billions of years ago must have been much more than two pence today, or?
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Well, with inflation, she could perhaps now own your country!
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Probably! As long as she’s nice to us, she’s welcome 😉
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