Massive Game Of Thrones Dragon Skull Washes Up On Dover Beach, Totally Trumps Queensland’s Actually Important Geological Find
Your fault for being so boring to look at, fossils.
After a fortnight spent analysing the immense geological booty stumbled upon by construction workers in Geebung, Queensland, scientists have uncovered 50-million-year-old fossils of plants, pollen, fish, amphibians and reptiles.
The find is extremely important for everyone, everywhere, as it could shed light on an era we know very little about: the period between the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the evolution of Australia’s megafauna. It could also help answer pressing questions for the climate change generation — in particular, how species were able to continue evolving in a climate ten degrees warmer than today. “If we understand how the species co-existed during the period of [natural] global warming, maybe we can get a glimpse into what our future might hold,” explained Queensland Museum senior curator and palaeontologist Scott Hocknull.
But in sad news for archaeologists everywhere, the fossils are probably the dullest things that you have ever seen.
Which is why everyone’s more focused on this one instead.
What you’re looking at there is a FUCKING ENORMOUS DRAGON SKULL that found its way onto Charmouth beach in Dover.
The 12-metre model took a team of three sculptures two months to design, and was inspired by the dragon skull Arya Stark discovers in Game Of Thrones, in the dungeons of King’s Landing.
It was commissioned to advertise a new streaming service, BlinkBox, which is debuting the same week as GoT Season Three.
The sculpture is the marketing brainchild of Taylor Herring, the same company behind that horrific 12-foot fiberglass sculpture of wet-shirted Mr. Darcy that had you all in a flutter last week.
Sorry, actual bones. You are far too boring for the internet to look at.