Collecting Fossils Gifts

"Bob, I'm worried you're unhappy at work."

'Let's make this one the biggest one ever.'

Evolution was harsh for the long-fingered Fliposaur.

T-rex

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

"We're at the top of the food chain and rulers of all we survey. What could possibly go wrong?"

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

As the world emerges from the last ice age Ug & Og discuss a historic agreement to reduce CO2 emissions from woolly mammoth barbecues.

'You know what they say...live fast, die young and leave a great fossil.'

I can hear a podcast of yesterday's sea.

' Get ready to make a wish.'

'We unfortunately had to compress our dinosaur area due to budget cuts. On the bright side, TyrannoTriStegoApatoHadroPlesioSaurodon Rex here is now the museum's most popular exhibit.'

"When I grow up, I want to be a scientists like Uncle Grog."

'Of course, I'm not one of those glamorous paleontologists who are all over TV these days.'

"When it's that old, you don't need to add 'A.D.' or 'B.C.'"

"Good heavens, Caruthers. It's the wife!"

Asteroid Denying Dinosaur vs. Asteroid Believing Dinosaur.

Fossil hunting

"That's no death grimace, Perkins. I think what we're seeing is a 2.8 million-year-old tight smile of spousal event obligation!"

"Aw, Dad! I don't wanna move. I just made friends with a fossil!"

'Well number 34 has run dry and is now pumping fossils.'

'Ogg's quite the visionary.'

Signs of prehistoric party behavior.

"Given a choice, would you prefer to be buried, cremated or converted to fossil fuel?"

Haunted museum

'I never knew there was a common ancestor of man and chicken.'

"Here we still are, eh? So much for the gloom-and-doom types who warned us against eating all the vegetation."

Lessons from the fossil record: Discarded consumer goods in the anthropocene layer in the rock strata.

'This isn't either a fad! -- It's a major breakthrough!'

"One day son, all this will be going with me."

'Galinosaurus' 'Discovered by V.J. Galin

'If you think they're confused now, just wait till they start digging up dinosaur bones'

"She said they were going out back to look for dinosaurs."

1930's bather.

Museums frantically adjust to the latest scientific bombshell.