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LOOK what came in the mail today!!!! It's so COOOOL!!
have finished my latest video! Its not much, but Im proud of it!
Here's a little 2d edited project I've been working on! Its got a bunch of prehistory all in one drawing! Its got critters from the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic ,Cretaceous and so on and so on!! Its just a little edited progress timelapse to show all that's happened but I hope you all enjoy it!! Can you find your favorite prehistoric denizen?
But of a wierd though but can you imagine living at a time in the world where hands WEREN'T a thing yet, like imagine existing at a time where the only way to pick something up was to use your face to do it. Imagine how surreal and wierd it would have been to see something reach over and just PICK UP something with what was supposed to be a FOOT for balance. Imagine being the first thing to pick something up!!!
Just had a second off idea from this about how for a good chunk of prehistory, only insects ruled the skies. But then vertebrates slowly started taking that from them as pterodactyls , pterosaurs and birds evolved. I wonder what it must have been like to have to suddenly start worrying about UP. To suddenly see something in the sky and have to consider it danger. Like I wonder how animals felt when suddenly you could be attacked from the direction of the sun and moon. You could be taken away entirely from the element that you were most comfortable with your entire life and just taken upwards into a land of nothingness, but light and clouds. And then you could be returned to the land of comfort you call ground or water in an instant, but the speed at which you fall would be beyond fatal. To be taken to a new horizon without a chance of returning.
But of a wierd though but can you imagine living at a time in the world where hands WEREN'T a thing yet, like imagine existing at a time where the only way to pick something up was to use your face to do it. Imagine how surreal and wierd it would have been to see something reach over and just PICK UP something with what was supposed to be a FOOT for balance. Imagine being the first thing to pick something up!!!
Had a thought about this, but what's the best way to show prehistoric life off to museum visitors? I feel like In my honest opinion that showing the animals in their ecosystems is already magical enough.
Any way to show that these animals are organisms who lived through the trials of time and to show how our understanding and relationship has also changed are the ways I feel like are the best for scientific education.
Alot of time, I've noticed folks can look at the old bones, but won't think about what they entail. How the bones of an animal can tell us their life's story, their struggles and their survival was the triumph of their lives. They may be gone now but their story still remains. But it is up to us to properly show and explain that story.
Because if we don't understand what happened in the past, then we will be blind towards our future. It is up to us here and now to be ready to prepare ourselves and each other for whatever the universe might hold in store for our spaceship called Earth.
A Visit from Prehistory!
Crashing its way into an empty mind is a Plethora of Mesozoic madness! Do you see your favorite Paleozoic or Mesozoic critter in here?
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