"I may only have a brain the size of a peanut... wait what was I saying again?"
Welcome to My Life
Rather than bore you with a long life story, I thought I'd share some of the memorablia I've collected from my many adventures.
As I'm really big on geology, I thought I'd set up my memory board as a rough Timeline of my existence.
Please forgive the lack of proper scale. They only make corkboards so big...
If you are interested in any of the items or topics on my board just click on their picture and check out any related posts (some are still under construction at moment...).
Like all (good?) stories mine has a beginning. Only unlike most others that claim it, my story really does start a LONG time ago!
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth!!!
It was back at the hey day of my kind that I originate from. 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous period, to be precise.
I was born...
Now I can't tell you details about it, for obvious reasons, but my egg was lain in prehistoric Alberta.
Something REALLY bad happened!!!
Then a few weeks or months after my egg was laid, the Dinosaurs went extinct...
I didn't notice
Yet somehow I survived, after a fasion. My egg was buried, but despite all logic this did NOT kill me. Rather put me into a slumber through the ages (and pre-ages!). Millions and millions of years. You know come to think of it, I was really bored!!!
I was discovered
Despite all the odds against it, when I was finally uncovered my egg hatched, and I found myself a Dinosaur in the modern world...
The Explorer
My discoverer was a tour guide named Craig who fashioned himself a palaeontologist. However up until the day he found me, his ambition hadn't gone so well. I wonder if he wishes his luck hadn't changed after finding me?
Being a Dinosaur in the modern era, I didn't growup like any other Dinosaur before me...
I was raised by humans
Craig took me into his home, and as of such i grewup to think more like a mammal most of the time, and not a tyrannosaur...
My First Roommate
Dan also lived in our house, and unlike Craig, he often didn't like the problems and mischief i'd get into
My Mom
i would encounter my mother, after a fashion, only she'd been long dead. only her skeleton remains today, but i guess it's better than nothing.
My Play Mates
When I finally met and made friends with some other Dinosaurs, I of course picked the oddest Dinosaurs a T-Rex could hang out with!
Sadly I couldn't just sit around the house eating and playing video games forever... I eventually entered the work force. The number of jobs avaliable to a Dinosaur are pretty limited though...
I ended up at the local museum
Fortunately my hometown is home to one of the best Palaeontology museums in the world! So I got a job there...
I learned all thing Palaeontology
Naturally while at the Tyrrell I picked up some scientific know how and skills!
The girl of my dreams...
I fell in love with the museum's star attraction, Lillian the Albertosaur... Not that she returned the feelings back in those days!
Till I was fired...
The museum had too many Dinosaurs wanting to work there. So due to me being me, I was one of the ones let go...
The Tyrrell was a huge part of who I was early in my life. Without it I needed a new direction...
There were too many other Dinosaurs...
Unfortunately Drumheller was just overrun with other Dinosaurs. So I wasn't going to be able to stay there, and make a name for myself.
So I tried to find my own space...
I travelled across BC thinking I was travelling back in time. Only later would I find out BC in Canada stands for British Columbia!
I needed help...
Larry the Tyrannosaur
I moved!
To New Zealand
I'm a big deal to the Government!
I work at a museum...
My (almost) secret origin!
Nearly a hundred years ago, the mysterious fossil hunter Francis Slate nearly uncovered my egg. For some reason he left me there in badlands. forced wait for someone else to uncover me...
new zealand's most complete fossil skeleton, the pleisosaur kiawhekea. the skeleton is on display at the otago museum here in dunedin.
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Very Cool, Traum!! Makes sense it's their ONLY complete fossil. NZ is an archipelago or a group of islands, right? Well, Plesiosaurs would've been abundant in the Mesozoic, huh?
to be honest it doesn't make sense actually. they really should have more complete skeletons like this one.
it is MUCH easier to fossilize something in a marine environment than on land. they have found a lot of marine reptiles, but except for this one none are much more than a head and neck OR the torso with a paddle or two still attached. a big part of their problem i think is the way these are fossilized here. they come in HUGE heavy concretions that you can't see into, and take forever to clean off.
as for new zealand being a tiny set of islands, funny enough at this time in prehistory when it broke off from the rest of gondwanna it was its own continent. called zealandia it was almost half the size of australia at that point. it wasn't till about 40 million years ago most of this slupped off and sank into the ocean. taking with it a lot of its fossils no doubt, and left us with just the volcanic bits of itself.
i was going to do up a post on this all when i get back to new zealand. this is just a preview ;)
yes with that Zealandia post yu wrote I was hoping not to find so many marine fossils but here it is a plesiosaur! does it mean that they could reach rivers or something like that or perhaps it was a bay?
In my city only one single plesiosaur has been found AFAIK, despite the fact that most of my country was underwater by that time.
4 comments:
Very Cool, Traum!! Makes sense it's their ONLY complete fossil. NZ is an archipelago or a group of islands, right? Well, Plesiosaurs would've been abundant in the Mesozoic, huh?
to be honest it doesn't make sense actually. they really should have more complete skeletons like this one.
it is MUCH easier to fossilize something in a marine environment than on land. they have found a lot of marine reptiles, but except for this one none are much more than a head and neck OR the torso with a paddle or two still attached. a big part of their problem i think is the way these are fossilized here. they come in HUGE heavy concretions that you can't see into, and take forever to clean off.
as for new zealand being a tiny set of islands, funny enough at this time in prehistory when it broke off from the rest of gondwanna it was its own continent. called zealandia it was almost half the size of australia at that point. it wasn't till about 40 million years ago most of this slupped off and sank into the ocean. taking with it a lot of its fossils no doubt, and left us with just the volcanic bits of itself.
i was going to do up a post on this all when i get back to new zealand. this is just a preview ;)
Good Point. Can't wait for that post.
yes with that Zealandia post yu wrote I was hoping not to find so many marine fossils but here it is a plesiosaur! does it mean that they could reach rivers or something like that or perhaps it was a bay?
In my city only one single plesiosaur has been found AFAIK, despite the fact that most of my country was underwater by that time.
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