So today the kids decided that they were feeling much better so after Jumah prayer Crush and Daisy raised an expedition to the garden to '...dig for fossils...' and what d'ya know, they found some too!
All very common but the intrepid explorers were filled with excitement nevertheless. Here are some pictures of a few that they found:
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| a very worn ammonite - a marine invertebrate related to the squid, octopus and cuttlefish family which apparently became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period [about the same time as the dinosaur]. In medieval Europe it was thought that they were petrified coiled snakes and were called Snakestones in England. Apparently ammonites found in Nepal are thought by the Hindu's to be a concrete manifestation on of of their gods [astagfirullah; how does this make sense?] |
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| ammonite... this one is much clearer |
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| There's that ammonite again but not sure what the others are (if they are fossils at all; but I'm not going to burst any bubbles until I know for sure LOL) |
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| absolutely zillions of Devils Toenails [Gryphaea], these were oyster type animals that lived from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous period. They are very common in the UK and apparently it was believed that carrying one of these around could prevent rheumatism. |
Daisy has been looking through her Beaver Handbook and has decided that she is going to work very hard to get all of her badges. She is of the opinion that if she does a small project/presentation on her finds she may be able to submit it for a badge. So that's on her 'to do list' for next week inshaAllah; I'll let you know how she gets on!
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