Dr. Loose
Hello boys and girls, I'm Dr. Loose, the great-granddaughter of a very famous goose. The Golden Goose, of Brothers Grimm fame, so gather round children, we're playing a game!
Have you read the stories of the Brothers Gimm? Well perhaps not my dears, they're old now and dim. But I'll bet you a cupcake, and three laughing cats, your grandparents have and they'd remember them fast!
Yet old is old, as are Brothers Grimm tales, so ancient in fact they're before all emails. And you're not old at all, so let's move on and talk, about the interesting way scientists age the rocks.
Radiometric dating it's called, google it, go ahead, or would you prefer to just read on instead? Using radiometric dating, planet years can be told, and our Earth 'tis four and one half billion years old!
I'm Loosey, I'm goosey, now let's have more fun, making pinhole projectors so we can look at the sun!
I'm Dr. Loose, a very, very special goose. I'm the great-granddaughter of the Golden Goose, a character from one of your great grandparents' favorite fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk. Maybe you've read that one?
It's as old as the hills, so perhaps you haven't heard of it. But how do we know how old the hills are? Can anyone tell me? Alright, then I'll tell you.
Scientists use several methods for this, and one of them is called radiation measurement. But let's not get into that. Another way is stratigraphic superposition. But that's also for another time. The third way is known as the fossil record. We'll take a closer look at this, for pure and scientific bliss!
Fossils are the petrified remains or imprints of prehistoric plants and animals embedded like molds in rock. That's a lot to take in, so don't worry if you're not sure what it means. To put it another way, fossils are the frozen leftovers of animals and plants that lived a long, long time ago. And that's exactly where our story begins.
Science is the real deal, like nanas in their peels, or magnets on a frosty fridge, or squeaky, leaky wheels. Science is the naked truth, a beeline to the facts, so let's all start to learn today, and get down to brass tacks!
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there lived a family of Dire Wolves (Canis dirus), living in the snow. They lived in epochs now long gone, as hypercarnivores, and all they wanted from the world was 70% meat plus brassica oleracea galore.
