{"id":4989,"date":"2025-04-22T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:43:04","slug":"unusual-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=4989","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three scientists \u2014 Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli \u2014 and their assistant Igor, who work at NASAL, begin to take an interest in creationism. Their superiors, concerned, send them to a psychologist, Professor Faggioli, a questionable character determined to get them fired by making them appear insane.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in Professor Faggioli\u2019s office, where Ravioli is undergoing evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Papaia and Banani continue a conversation about a book, found by Banani in his garage, that belonged to his grandfather. The book discusses geological evidence of Noah\u2019s flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: So these enormous fossil graveyards, where marine and land creatures are buried together, are found all over the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: Yes, the book gives several examples of locations from all around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: And you said these animals were buried quickly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: \u201cQuickly\u201d is an understatement. They were practically buried alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: And how do they figure that out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: The fossils are so well preserved that today we can even see the details of their fins and eye sockets. Even the complex lens systems of their eyes are available for study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: That\u2019s impressive\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: They even found fossilized jellyfish!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: Jellyfish? But jellyfish are almost entirely water, and decompose in just a few days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: Exactly! Researchers concluded that the jellyfish were buried in less than a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: But it could be a coincidence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: Not if you find them all buried together in a layer of sandstone that stretches over a thousand square kilometers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: We really can\u2019t rule out a catastrophe, and it\u2019s not easy to come up with an alternative explanation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banani: Did I already tell you about those fossils where one creature is eating another, and others where creatures are giving birth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papaia: Yes, I think you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igor: Geologists are like Ravioli\u2019s cat! You see, the geologists, digging in the Grand Canyon and other rock layers around the world, found tons of fish fossils \u2014 some of them perfectly preserved. And Ravioli\u2019s cat found a similar scene\u2026 digging through his backpack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And both \u2014 the fossils and the rotten fish \u2014 ended up there\u2026 thanks to a disaster!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three scientists \u2014 Papaia, Banani, and Ravioli \u2014 and their assistant Igor, who work at NASAL, begin to take an interest in creationism. Their superiors, concerned, send them to a psychologist, Professor Faggioli, a questionable character determined to get them fired by making them appear insane. We are in Professor Faggioli\u2019s office, where Ravioli is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}