‘Bizarre Articles’

Honestly, mostly an excuse for me to laugh at crappy dinosaur toys in shops.


What is *inside* this Ammonite?

This Ammonite came to me in a lot with other Ammonites - from experience, I can say it is probably from the Inferior Oolite of Dorset or at least South England.   What jumped out was that tiny circular inclusion - I didn't have a clue what it was - a tooth from a...

Bizarre bits: Derpy Dinosaur Toys

Terrible dinosaur toys from museums, gift shops, etc... I started noticing these a few years back. Tacky Chinese dinosaur toys that not only look like unrealistic dinosaurs, but frankly don't really look like... anything. Some of them are really just bizarre. There...

DON’T put crystals in your water (or your vagina…)

Please... don't put crystals in your water. Or your vagina.  Okay, so, weird post. I originally wrote this in 2019 and never got around to publishing it. It was intended to address two growing fads that I'm really not comfortable with supplying crystals for (and never...