Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Senegalese Prayer Flags, & Fossil Mystery Solved







Photos (top to bottom):  Prayer flags in Tibet & along the Corniche in Dakar;  comparison of fossil with recent find.

Based upon what we've observed here, plastic bags and bottles are a huge environmental catastrophe.  They litter the ground everywhere, like colorful spring flowers, and wherever there is barbed wire, there hang Senegalese prayer flags, flapping in the breeze, a tribute to the god of long-chain polymers.  

A fossil previously described in an earlier entry has been identified, thanks to ISD high school biology teacher, Gabi H, who recently found a turtle jaw on a local beach.   As the photograph above shows, our fossil is very similar to the turtle jaw.  Case closed:  it's a turtle. 

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