It seems like Mars might have hosted life at some point, though obviously we still don't know. The same is probably true for Venus.
My question then is about how well fossils could even last on a place like that?
I guess on venus the acid rain and high pressures would likely dissolve any rock, but on mars you really only need to worry about large winds and dust storms, since there's no precipitation to speak of.
In such conditions (i guess more likely on mars), could fossils last for very long?
What I am talking about is not the usual way fossils are formed. I want to know that if were to preserve, let's say, a bone for millions of years without it being fossilized, is there a way to do that?
So I've seen those drawings of hippos/horses/swans etc where they try to draw them like how they think dinosaurs are drawn. Is it true that soft tissues like fat/muscle/cartilage don't fossilize, and we don't really know what dinosaurs or extinct mammals would have looked like? I think that's quite interesting if it's true, because fat and cartilage can make huge differences to an animal's appearance. It gives a lot more options for paleoart.
I’ve been curious about this for awhile, and not sure if there’s a concrete (pun intended) answer for this question.
I’d like to know what secondary typings fossil Pokémon may have had before becoming Rock-type, or if they even had a secondary type at all: the Rock-typing could very well just be a sole addition.
For Pokémon like Aerodactyl or Tirtouga, what were they before becoming fossils? (Excluding the advent of the Draco and Arcto fossils from SW/SH.)
What’re your thoughts on this?
I received this baffling comment online last week. My interpretation is that I'd been defining fossilization too broadly. For me, I'd been using the term to describe a very strong habit. I see these habits every day so initially the comment was perplexing.
Looking at how these habits form I see them when 2 languages are used in culturally mixed ways where there isn't a clear line between the cultures. The results are Singlish, Honglish, Whatever. These languages are then encoded into an ego. It's not just muscle memory.
This is when a ESL teacher gets caught in the crossfire. Exams test USA English or British English but the cultural environment is clearly Singlish. WTF?
How do you explain this to customers? When I've tried to explain it they get angry with their kids, which tells me that they don't understand.
I just remembered that scene. Is there any explanation on why she can do that or Ban is just a Disney princess?
Thyme waits for Noam, man.
Edit Thank you all for such an enormous resource list
There is a vast amount of long lectures on high level Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and so on but almost no systemic lecture series on Linguistics. That's very strange. What's going on? Am I missing something?
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