Sure, things are bad now but 3.26 billion years ago an asteroid 50-100 times bigger than the one that killed the dinosaurs hit Earth, vaporized rock that rained down as molten droplets, boiled the ocean's upper layers and killed most microbial life. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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Before the 17th century rolled around people who'd discover the teeth of megalodon and other species of prehistoric shark would misidentify these teeth for the tounge tips of dragons
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"Thy Scrotum Humanum" - sketch
The first dinosaur fossil description ever written was by Robert Plot in 1677, although when it was described they believed it to be the thigh bone of a human giant. This along with noting it having a similar look to male genitals landed it the name "Scrotum Humanum".
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