r/Weird 2d ago

This cluster of fossilised creatures look like they came from another planet

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u/EstablishmentReal156 2d ago

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u/EstablishmentReal156 2d ago

Not mine. They're around 160 million years old apparently. They became extinct even without our help. Darwins theory seems legit. We'll all be getting dug out of rocks in another 100 million years with whatever the next dominant intelligent life is that develops on our rock. I wonder if they'll still be knocking lumps out of each other and squabbling over resources and land?

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u/Sneaky-Shenanigans 2d ago

Good concept for sci-fi show. Humanity discovers ancient species with evidence of their tremendously advanced technology and then use that technology to advance themselves. It’s kind of like the well used “we got future tech from studying alien tech we found” trope, but instead of being aliens, it’s just ancient beings from earth that are now extinct.

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u/PhoenyxCinders 2d ago

There's a Lovecraft story that's exactly about that, at the mountains of madness iirc

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u/Sneaky-Shenanigans 2d ago

I’ll have to put it on the reading list