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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sofa sized? How many football fields is that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

2 meters or 200 cm or 2000 mm.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Comparing things of dissimilar proportions is confusing?

A sofa height turtle, sofa width turtle and sofa length turtle are all different things!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

What'll really bake your noodle is that sofas come in various sizes as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Duh! Where do you think the ancient term ‘sofa turtle’ came from?!?!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

With the discovery of the New World and a slight shift in preferred seating it got replaced with couch potato eventually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I read about stories of the native Australians that recently were backed up with archeological findings of megafauna. The good part here being that they have not only that story bot others related to climate and land changes. Interesting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Please convert that to capybara loafs and bananas for what the whole loafs don't fit.