Not to mention all the creatures that just didn't fossilise because they died away from water or had mostly lightweight tissues. They are nothing but dust on the winds of time. Not at all like our era which will be clearly delineated by .. Chicken bones and radioactive waste.

This is like how we only know of the tiniest amount of dinosaurs because the ones we know of died in a Goldilocks zone of fossilisation and there's likely tons of cool dinosaurs will never know about.

Tattoos too. The areas where we find human remains with cool tattoos don't coincide with cultures that tattooed themselves, they coincide with places where preservation of tattooed flesh is the most likely. There's a good chance that humans everywhere had rad tattoos and cultures associated with them that we'll never know about.

I'm fine with it because I am just a single point in a massive soup of life on our planet. Everything is broken down and reformed. This time it formed me. Next time maybe it'll form a human but it's not really important. What is important is that I do my best to make it to the end of this form and respect the others along the way.

drink your milk, kids, or else the long march of millennia will forget your bones

I always wonder about how many are just deep underground in a place we'll never find them. I mean they're just sitting there waiting to be discovered, and I'm sure there's an incredible number of them since the vast majority of the fossiliferous rocks are surely buried. But we'll probably never find most of them because they're too difficult to access.

It’s fine because there’s a steady state of a good number of bitchin fossils at any given point

potentially coastal civilizations older than the natural decay rate under salt water

I love rage comics

Would be funnier if he put on goggles.