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"micropaleontologist" sounds really cool Gonna leave this here so future me learns about how to study fossilized microbes https://t.co/SPApTFRzZ1 Amazing what you can learn while looking up dinosaur cloaca at 6 am in the morning.
>Meanwhile, the oldest known hominin coprolite samples date back to around 50,000 years ago. Bits of pollen, specific molecules and parasites can reveal the diets of different cultures. https://t.co/YXgjnjXTNn Good.
Crystal dino shit healing energy or something. https://t.co/yxsLGH7SuS
This is amazing. "Ammonites and Goniatites are fossils of the Cretaceous period, holding energies for more than 370 million years!" https://t.co/0Q18U6jjaA
Market scarcity lessons from 66 million years ago "there were relatively few insects that could have done the dirty deed and done it on such a large scale. But, according to a recent study, there is one main culprit for the lack of dino dung—cockroaches." https://t.co/Ty5zrZtGJO
I slept on this idea. and now I am really curious how big those cockroaches were. https://t.co/L89ccsABza
Cool. "During the early Cretaceous period when it lived, several predatory cockroach-like lineages evolved. Only one group survives today: the praying mantises, which have similar front legs to the fossil, and are closely related to cockroaches." https://t.co/nmllLpPzoS
"The association with urine and thus with a high concentration of [essential nutrients] leads to the recent conclusion about the association of dung-beetles and coprophagy with mammals (not with dinosaurs) since the very beginning" https://t.co/LEJstxzp81 https://t.co/XLTrjc6LSQ
What if we don't have dinosaur coprolites because they shit like birds and it washed away really easily, so the only thing left behind was like those islands covered in gun powder precursor? https://t.co/HKMIbfu4Mx
In farming, forces behind the trend was Cost gravity. Amplification of output due to cheap fertilizer. Mining bird shit, then synthetics / mining mountains. In service economy, driving force is also price gravity. Technology lowers barriers = low friction = cheap effort.
Also talk about burying the lead. Smithsonian mag article say the cockroaches were found eating dinosaur poop, but the real interesting idea from that science publication is that dinosaur poop probably fed early mammals too, possibly bootstrapping their microbial gut fauna.
whoa. "Picard took in upon himself to conclude Galen's research, discovering a long dead ancient humanoid species, responsible for planting the seeds for much of the humanoid life in the galaxy. (TNG: "The Chase")" https://t.co/M7Y7gSqVpz https://t.co/Ty6jtkSXFk
"Uminoanata Uminowatashi Nikutai no Naka no Koseidai Ikitsuzukeru Shinitsuzukeru Katarikakeru Koseidai"🎶 https://t.co/L6J84GDpY7 ( lyrics via https://t.co/z3j0fSrLCG )
I added a bunch of people to a twitter list that might be a way for me to learn about dino poop. https://t.co/GOcyXVqYeR
Surely the assumption that the dinosaurs didn't like getting bitten is at least plausibly not true and is based on an assumption and dinosaur feelings and sexuality? https://t.co/soPimqPPyP
Do you not understand how weird animals are? https://t.co/qV0JkKEzCN
This isn't even really a rare finding among aves! https://t.co/OfQ71PFweo
"Two halfs make a whole, and wholes are whole" https://t.co/irEWxul0S6 What the heck is wrong with children's shoes these days?
How do I go from researching cloaca, to finding two dinosaurs biting each other's face to, to wondering about dinosaur poop, to psychiatric evaluation of necrophilia among humans thanks to a children's cartoon show? https://t.co/umkEknO6sM
I am not proud of my idea threads. The wanderings of curiosity make me learn things. https://t.co/jkFoMtQH3J
Oh right, I made a thread about humans-as-spiders and found myself musing about how rotting flesh apparently smells like a chemical we find in sperm. https://t.co/xF4Mf6Dudu
Have you ever found yourself in a discord's NSFW chat asking random people what their semen taste like and if they've ever tried to smell it? I swear, I'm just curious if I can predict someone's prostate health over the internet https://t.co/6ZiVet8bGu https://t.co/1Utl1xLqKm https://t.co/if69SXvk1C
I said I was going to turn my life into a joke... But this is a bit much. https://t.co/1VKNI8wwpw
I am not joking about asking randos in a NSFW discord channel. https://t.co/7wxdhkWOer
OH neat, hadn't thought that some deranged thoughts stemming from Freud's obsession's with anuses and phalluses would be transformed thru the idea of a Cloaca. That explains why I Was able to branch via psych. https://t.co/2ZJ7BGccDf
Now I'm thinking about "Cloaca Maxima" and The roman's use of birds for fortune telling and other weird ritual rites. Were the romans of a cloacal disposition? https://t.co/I5TSQ82BDK
Or were they just really into strange healing rituals. https://t.co/CWpS4onmmi
Be like Schmidt. Stay curious. About many things. https://t.co/hAHtZSLr6a https://t.co/Gfk0rEyTF9
Cheering myself up by thinking about dinosaur nuzzles. https://t.co/1Z3zP7Sqtk
I'm here for the physically accurate dinosaur bones.https://t.co/NZjLoViARg