Amateur Paleontologists Discover Fossils, Blind Penguin Gets Help, and Weird Wednesday
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:30.6 | Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. Marcus Paff joined by Reggie Rizzou. |
| 0:35.0 | On today's episode, amateur paleontologists. |
| 0:38.3 | I didn't know there was such a thing, but they discover a treasure trove of ancient fossils. |
| 0:43.3 | A blind penguin finds a helping wing to get around. |
| 0:46.3 | And this week's Weird Wednesday includes part of a plane on a roof, a wild skiing trip, |
| 0:51.3 | and a couple of Guinness World Records. |
| 0:53.3 | What would Weird Wednesday be without Guinness World Records? Plus, this day in history, a wild skiing trip at a couple of Guinness World Records. What would weird Wednesday be without Guinness World Records? |
| 0:56.8 | Plus this day in history, a historic day for the telephone. |
| 1:00.0 | Coming up, it's cool stuff. |
| 1:02.1 | In France, two amateur paleontologists have unearthed a treasure trove of fossils dating back |
| 1:08.0 | 470 million years. |
| 1:11.6 | This per a new research paper out of the University of Lausanne, the site in Motanya |
| 1:16.6 | Noir, a mountain range in central France, contains nearly 400 well-preserved fossils, and per scientist, |
| 1:23.6 | provides evidence that this site was once a place of refuge for animals escaping global warming. |
| 1:29.4 | Now, per GNN, the fossils are believed to have their origins in the Ordovician period, which lasted |
| 1:34.2 | approximately 44 million years, beginning 488 million years ago, wrapping up 444 million years ago. |
| 1:42.5 | At that time, it's believed southern Europe, Africa, South America, |
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