Talk:2990: Late Cenozoic
first explanation, probably bad Sci09273.15 (talk) 19:41, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
It would have been so cute if Randall had given the lecturer alien some features of Miss Lenhart. Barmar (talk) 19:53, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
Luckily for future paleontologists, our infrastructure and earthmoving projects are sturdy enough that they should still look kinda funny in a hundred million years. They might not assume that there was a technological civilization until they identified the Manhattan Iron Deposits as ancient vehicles or found similar proof, but they would know SOMETHING weird was going on. GreatWyrmGold (talk) 21:38, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
The gap in the fossil record between their extinction and sudden resurgence will be explained by a chance discovery of a prestine copy of the documentary Jurassic Park. 172.69.208.183 23:50, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
Hey, I made this same exact joke (offline) over 20 years ago! I believe that means I am entitled to compensation. 183231bcb (talk) 01:39, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
-Thinking emoji- pretty sure the typical museum dino skeleton is 100% fossil free. I might recall the dino (and similar rareness of fossils) skeletons on display as cast plaster (of paris?). SDT 172.70.38.17 03:04, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- As usual, the answer to the question "how much of a displayed dinosaur skeleton is composed of authentic fossil bones" is "it depends". See this article from Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for intel. 172.71.147.146 05:30, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
I would be willing to suffer the fate of Tithonus for a chance to see those aliens try to figure out the Cenozoic biogeography of Hawai‘i - where, for instance, the (presumably fossilized remains of the) backyard birds would include, inter alia, the northern cardinal (North America), the Java finch (Indonesia), the saffron finch (Brazil), the English sparrow (western Europe), the zebra dove (Malaysia), the warbling white-eye (Japan), the common waxbill (South Africa), the common myna (India) ... 172.68.23.151 05:58, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
