COLD DARK ROOM

[ZEROPILOT]

I wobbled only once.
It was an inner ear thing that the doctors quickly cured.

 

[Lyn W]

I dreamed of my mother eating snails !

You have mother eating snails!!?
They are picky!
I won't tell anyone........
Mums the word!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And some fossils.
I found an ammonite in the rocks but it isn't very good.
Also purchased this :

A shark vertebra from Otodus obliquus, about 55 million years old.
You can see where the neural arch connected as well as lots of tiny blood vessels.
I have smaller ones, but they are rarish because they are light and made of cartilage not bone, so don't preserve so easily, usually we only find shark's teeth, which are super hard and replaced all the life of the shark so are very common fossils
It's quite a large one and goes with lots of large teeth I have of this species.

 

[Lyn W]

Austin is an adult today.

18?
Only 3 years younger than me!!
I wish!!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I wobbled only once.
It was an inner ear thing that the doctors quickly cured.

I've only got one functioning ear.
Perhaps that's my problem.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

You have mother eating snails!!?
They are picky!
I won't tell anyone........
Mums the word!

I keep a supply of 'em for when one of the ladies arrives with a photo album.

 

[Lyn W]

Happy Birthday Austin. hope you manage to celebrate in spite of everything else going on.

Forgot to add this.

 

[Lyn W]

Good early evening, Lyn.
Or late afternoon.

Evening Adam
how are you?

 

[Lyn W]

And here is yours truly looking his usual cheerful self after a long journey.
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Takes ages to download here
- the suspense is killing me!!!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And here is a nautiloid, Cymatoceras sakelavus , 112 million years old from Madagascar.
Polished to show the chambers.

And the venter showing a patch of white that is the original shell material (the majority has been replaced with agate) , not bad for this age.
The little hole is the entrance to the siphuncle a tube that connects the chambers and allows changes to the pressure of stored gas, allowing the animal to rise and fall in the ocean, a similar technique we use in submarines.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Evening Adam
how are you?

Marvelous, intelligent and supremely handsome, thanks.
You ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Takes ages to download here
- the suspense is killing me!!!!

Not really worth the wait.

 

[Lyn W]

We visited a new restaurant
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We were given menus by the waiter, an interesting and unusually varied selection at reasonable prices.
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We ordered drinks and the the owner came out and said :
"Would you like to order food ?"
And before we could reply he chuckled and said :
"Well, you can't! The kitchen's closed".
And chuckling , he wandered off.

Was his name Basil by any chance?

 

[Lyn W]

Marvelous, intelligent and supremely handsome, thanks.
You ?

Much the same thanks!

 

[Lyn W]

And here is a nautiloid, Cymatoceras sakelavus , 112 million years old from Madagascar.
Polished to show the chambers.
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And the venter showing a patch of white that is the original shell material (the majority has been replaced with agate) , not bad for this age.
The little hole is the entrance to the siphuncle a tube that connects the chambers and allows changes to the pressure of stored gas, allowing the animal to rise and fall in the ocean, a similar technique we use in submarines.
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Have you been at Sabines snails??

 

[Lyn W]

?

I ate a clown once.......
but he tasted funny!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Have you been at Sabines snails??

Snails are unchambered, just one coiled tube.
These are cephalopods related to squids and octopuses.
The pearly nautilus still exists, but they are a rare group now.
But i'm doing nothing to Sabine's snails, they're all called Adam!

 

[Lyn W]

And that's just the teachers.......................

....thank goodness kids can't read my mind sometimes!

 

[Killerrookie]

....thank goodness kids can't read my mind sometimes!

What do you think about?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

....thank goodness kids can't read my mind sometimes!

I'm not so sure.
Little masters of manipulation......