The Fossil Wars

Contributor: Leilanie Stewart - - “Go on. Get lost! This wave-cut platform isn't big enough for two!” “What on earth do you mean?” The lamellibra peered under the hinge line of his protruding umbo at the calcareous shape of the brachiopod next to him, and flipped his upper shell in disgust. “I mean that this part of the oolitic limestone is mine. Mine, you hear? My territory. Take off!” “I don't understand you. We’ve both been here for several millennia sharing this rock and you never had a problem before.” The brachiopod clicked his umbo beak, his quartz glinting in the sun as anger washed over him. “Us? Sharing? I would never fix my pedicle within a million diatoms of a specimen like you.” “What a thing to say! You’re an awfully aggressive fellow, are you not?” “I can say what I want, thank you very much. I’ve been here since the...
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