– dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, birds are dinosaurs
– fossil fuels come from fossil plants and marine invertebrates. Dinosaurs are not the source of fossil fuels.
– fossilisation happens regardless of whether or not a species goes extinct, there are fossils of living species. It’s just something that happens to dead organisms in the right conditions
– fossil fuels amass when there’s just giant quantities of dead organic material, like in the Carboniferous Coal Forests. So yeah, they were always going to exist in a world where life does so well.
While this is 100% correct, in a world without the Space Rock of Death, mammals would probably still be underfoot things, so there might not be anything around that cared about fossil fuels right now.
given how many species are near-sapient if not outright sapient, especially among living dinosaurs (corvids, parrots, pigeons, and more), I sincerely would be surprised if nothing sapient evolved even in a world without the Space Rock of Death
I just don’t like thinking humans are uniquely destructive and/or evil. I mean, single species/groups of species have caused extinctions before (Great Oxygenation Event (maybe), End-Devonian), our level of environmental exploitation is because we’re developing too quickly and nothing can evolve to reign us in fast enough, which has happened with other species too.
AITA when “from the producers of” in a trailer means nothing to me.
OKAY YEAH I REMEMBER THIS ONE Basically it came from a survey done by Bank of America. Of only their customers. Of only those customers that had a long term savings account with them. And only surveyed 1500 of them. And that, friends, is how statistics is used to lie!!
Always ask who ran the survey, the study, the poll, ask how many people were involved, and ask about the breakdown of the demographics.
As someone who had to study statistics, this is important to know. So important that it’s one of the first things they taught me. “You can prove anything with statistics.”
Graffiti left on the tomb of Ramses V in Egypt by ancient greek tourists (when the tomb was only a few hundred years old). “I visited and did not like anything but the sarcophagus” and “I cannot read the hieroglyphs.”
In fairness to King Kong, if I had a tiny adorable primate in my hand I would also be very resistant to someone taking it away from me.
We all assume it was romantic, but maybe when King Kong looked at her he was seeing this:
Something like this really happened a couple of years ago at the Mefou Primate Sanctuary in Cameroon, run by Ape Action Africa (AAA). A western lowland gorilla named Bobo befriended a bushbaby for a couple of hours before releasing it back into the forest.
According to AAA’s Facebook post (where you can also find additional photos and video):
Our silverback gorilla Bobo made a surprising new friend this week – a wild bushbaby! Caregivers discovered him cradling the tiny primate during their morning checks, and were amazed to see him handling it with the utmost care – proving that gorillas really are the gentle giants of the forest. Bobo’s group-mates were desperately curious, particularly his favourite female Avishag, but he kept them all at a distance, making sure that no one disturbed his new friend. Bushbabies are usually nocturnal so it is very rare to see one, and even rarer to witness this kind of interaction. The little bushbaby was happy to play in Bobo’s arms, hopping off to explore the grass nearby, before returning to Bobo’s hand. When the game was over, Bobo walked purposefully off on two legs to deliver his friend safely back into the trees.
Incidentally, the western lowland gorilla (which has the best species name of all time: Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is the largest primate in Cameroon, and the bushbabies happen to be the smallest primates in Cameroon.
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