#2823: Fossil

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is holding two halves of a rock in a paleontological site. Megan, Ponytail, and White Hat are working in the background.]

Cueball: It's weird to pry open a rock and see an animal that no one has laid eyes on for 400 million years.

[Zoom in on Cueball looking at the fossil he is holding.]

[Cueball pokes the fossil.]

Cueball: Boop!

Off-panel voice: Hey! Don't boop the trilobites!


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:The two best reasons to get into fossils are booping trilobites and getting to say the word "fossiliferous" a lot.


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