Fossil Study Gifts

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

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?"

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

"Look, Professor - a stegosaurus!"

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

They don't feed the animals in here very well, do they!

"If we consume less, floss regularly, and use sun screen - we should all be fine!"

' Get ready to make a wish.'

Man looks at huge dinosaur fossil in garden, saying: 'It looks great in the rockery, but don't you think you should call the Natural History Museum?'

'I'd hire you, but the word is going around you guys are practically extinct!'

'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.'

"Have you tried carbon dating?"

'Man. Piltdown Man.'

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

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

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

The Steakosaurus

"You've passed with extinction!"

Asteroid Denying Dinosaur vs. Asteroid Believing Dinosaur.

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

"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!"

"If there is a heaven, why do we end up as fossil fuel?"

"Don't make me turn this woolly mammoth around!"

Fossil hunting

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

'Put that down your fool! It's a bone of contention.'

'Ogg's quite the visionary.'

Ancient Greek setting. Man at desk writing on scroll says: 'Yes, they're draconian measures ??" but then, I am Draco.'

Scientists have found proof that the mighty T-rex is related to the humble chicken.

Signs of prehistoric party behavior.

'Just as I suspected, Simpson. The extinction process happened very suddenly.'

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

We apologise for the disruption to your evolution...

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