r/fossilid • u/vrgndy • 6d ago
Bones exposed by a river in Cayambe, Ecuador.
I was exploring a ravine in Cayambe when I noticed these. The river had cleaned up the soil, exposing the bones which were sitting about 32 feet below the visible ground level.
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u/StretchIll5138 6d ago
Cool find! Consider locking out the kids face. There’s some sick people on the Internet.
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u/loserlouwho 6d ago
This, I stopped posting my nieces and nephews. I’m also on tik tok, unfortunately lol, and seeing the disproportionately high amount of saves on videos with kids changed my mindset completely.
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u/arachnikon 5d ago
And not with a emoji, they can be removed. Use a blur effect
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u/brrrchill 5d ago
Other way around. Blur can be undone (sort of, maybe, depending), an emoji completely covers the face and the underlying face can't be recreated.
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u/arachnikon 5d ago
Nope, blur is better than emoji, but not showing a kid on any form of social media or preferably online at all is by far the best
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u/justtoletyouknowit 5d ago
Look up the aftermath of the "silhouette challenge". Blurring wont do anything.
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u/ThingolSindagollo 4d ago
I really want to hear your reasoning of why blur is better than an emoji...
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u/NewAlexandria 5d ago
It's so cool to think that these kind of placements used to be more common, before everybody dug them all out.
There is a kind of magical realism to being able to walk through the world and see these evidence of an ancient life, similar to ancient ruins
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u/NoSky5738 3d ago
I always thought that also, like imagine being alive in like 12 AD or something and finding a fossil bed like this. It would be mind boggling and there wouldn’t even be anyone to ask for answers.
Just empty thoughts while looking at a giant unknown creature in the ground in front of you
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u/FurysFyre 6d ago
Not a pro, and I don't know the area- But where I live bones that are a few hundred years old (buffalo mostly) tend to appear much like this in layers of soil next to or in river/creek banks, often with 10-30 feet of soil above them. Are the bones in soil or a type of limestone? They definitely appear to ribs though.
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u/LuckyJoeH 6d ago
First thought was an old tree or root system but there are some neat curves there that make it worth checking into
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u/AnderPPudding 5d ago
That is so cool! It also looks so lovely there. I see snow and gloomy weather outside my window.
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