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Very Bad Paleontology Jokes

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A place where very bad paleontology (and related science) jokes are kept. Inspired by perpetualartistsblock's terrible prosauropod joke. Ran by aurusallos and thuat-squared. Background by crushthorax.

Scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on Earth

Based on laboratory studies, Rutgers scientists say one of the most likely chemical candidates that kickstarted life was a simple peptide with two nickel atoms they are calling "Nickelback"

Bro if we solve abiogenesis and it gets named after Nickelback I am going to have an aneurysm

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If I had a nickel for every nickel in this compound, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird this isn't the joke they went with

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sorry your boyfriend got subducted. yeah he’s reintegrating with the mantle and sinking down to the core mantle boundary where he’ll heterogenize and be immediately overlayed by more subducted slab material. yeah he’s completely unrecognizable from when he was on the surface and only detectable by slight differences in seismic wave velocity. sorry :/

Would you hug a tiktaalik

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if you hugged a tiktaalik would you hug it like this:

or this:

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[ID: Image one is a stock photo of two people hugging. A tiktaalik has been edited into the photo, being hugged vertically between the two people. Image 2 is a picture of someone wading into water, almost up to their shoulders. It has been edited so that the person is hugging a tiktaalik. In this image, the tiktaalik is floating on the water horizontally in its natural state and resting its head on the person's shoulder. End ID.]