myrmepropagandist on Nostr: It's kind of messed up that you can just buy fossils even if it's an insect that ...

It's kind of messed up that you can just buy fossils even if it's an insect that hasn't been described then that fossil could get lost in your sock drawer or made into jewelry or who knows what.

It's not that there aren't fossils that are common enough that regular people could own them, but there's just not enough of a process and there are probably undescribed prehistoric ants in people's rock collections and their aunt might throw them away or something --

Aaaaah!