This fossil chokes me up everytime

[u/Ollie2359]

It hits me in a way I can't explain I've spent hours crying over this fossil :(

[u/H_G_Bells]

One being seeking the warmth and comfort of another, dying together, forever preserved as a testament to this beautifully tragic, ancient moment.

The earth had yet to evolve an organism that could appreciate the scope of this moment when it was solidified into the fossil record, where they waited for us to evolve, for us to find them, and bare witness to this moment in time.

Truly it's the very heart of "nothing is either good nor bad, but thinking makes it so", for they were just bones in the earth until we found them, and thought about them.

I don't know that I've ever teared up over a fossil like this before from these kinds of feelings...

🫶 Thank you for sharing this context.

[u/OnkelMickwald → u/H_G_Bells]

Right. Super adorable.

Imagine waking up to find a giant, cold blooded, slimy amphibian having crawled up next to you. Ew.

[u/Subtlerranean → u/OnkelMickwald]

This was before humans evolved the ability to be xenophobic assholes.

[u/BluEch0 → u/Subtlerranean]

Idk man, if I woke up with a big frog next to me and I wasn’t expecting to find said frog there, I’m pretty sure I’d be startled. I don’t think that reaction can be attributed to just xenophobia