What can I say? I freaking love stuff like this. We discovered that the bay area use to look like africa today, that the sabertooth had an adorable frown/smile action with it's mouth agape and it's skull is much bigger than i thought(michael is holding a reproduction), got to hold a wooly mammoth tooth, ahhhhh a real one that we had been warned would shatter into a million little pieces if dropped. i took a pic of it on my hat. ladies and gentlemen this is one of 16 teeth a mammoth would have. oh, giant beavers a defiantly giant as you can see in slide 4926. i nearly jumped out of my seat when i saw atlatl i mean that is a term that i will always remember from school. i love that word, it is so much fun to say. try it. the scientist also took the opportunity to make fun of sarah palin while discussing the bering land bridge.
along with political humor you may have guessed that sooner or later global warming would come up and it did. then they started the discussion of bringing back a lot of wildlife to the bay area hence the we're back closing slide with a short nosed bear, giant sloth and beaver. some professor in berkley wants to initiate this change but i do not see it happening anytime soon.
oh the adorable woman sitting in front of us was talking about radio lab and one of the episodes with wilson the entomologist that i adore. i have to get his ant book now. maybe this weekend. i love science and meganerds.
