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We start this story in 18th century Switzerland, where Johann Scheuchzer, a prolific scholar and naturalist, studied and illustrated fossils, believing they were evidence of Biblical flood (aka, diluvialist thinking). He used natural world to illustrate the magnificence of God.
A quirky story about how a fossil of an extinct Oligocene salamander (Andrias scheuchzeri), was mistaken to as human remains of a victim of the Biblical flood 🧵
[art by Zdeněk Burian]
Love crafting my characters, for historical fiction I probably will never come to write :(
Say hello to the new pterosaur on the block, Balaenognathus, they are weird