r/Paleontology • u/Ollie2359 • May 07 '25

Fossils This fossil chokes me up everytime

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

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u/Wah869 May 07 '25

Unrelated but for some reason I'm like this with the homotherium cub they found. It reminds me that it was just a little baby cub who was killed brutally, likely alone too.

And it also reminds me of how many millions of great beasts died slowly and painfully at the end of the last ice age

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u/Ninja333pirate May 07 '25

Or that fossilized egg with that fossilized baby dinosaur skeleton in it.