Utterly Meaningless

Paleolithic campfire stories aside, I get the willies when I see the long-ago critters. This is despite my childhood fascination with dinosaurs. I liked the triceratops skull fossil that I saw on a 5th grade field trip to the museum at the South Dakota School of Mines, but that mososaur … [shudder]. Its fossilized skeleton snakes around the display room, and I could imagine it coming through the water at me. Ewwwwww!

I imagine there were enough creepie crawlies to give our ancestors the heebie jeebies, not to mention big fuzzy pouncing critters as well.