Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again.
Nature has different times.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Nature stopped being natural decades ago.