The FossilForge cast
Each friend shows you one idea by how they act. Meet them all and see how the ideas fit together.
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Seam Taxonomic + fossil-type classification — family-resemblance-matching (what KIND of organism?) -
Span Deep-time + geological chronology — scale-of-scales (WHEN did this organism live?) -
Branch Morphological adaptation + evolutionary change — branching-not-laddering -
Field Paleoenvironment + ecosystem reconstruction — fossils-as-a-place-story -
Last Mass extinctions + extinction-event reasoning — witness-and-choose (cross-app cameo with EcoSphere Brink) -
Blank The incomplete record — the fossil record is a story with most of its pages missing -
Guise Convergent evolution — unrelated creatures arriving at the same outward form -
Imprint Trace fossils — fossils of behaviour not bodies: footprints, burrows, trails -
Seep Fossilization — how a living thing rarely becomes a fossil: quick burial, slow mineral swap -
Underframe Homology — the same underlying skeleton, in the same order, beneath different forms