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How do they know it was a snail and not a ram?
I choose to believe in the comically large ram theory
A modern sized ram is no joking matter .. they can really fuck you up good and proper. Now imagine one sized to match the fossil .. shudder.
Source: Sheep farm.
If you are REALLY interested in said art.
https://www.alieward.com/ologies/medievalcodicology
Ologies is a great podcast where they interview real experts in a field. A couple weeks ago they interviewed someone who studies snails in manuscripts. It has a pretty interesting (and surprisingly racist) history.
I'm not sure if that picture is real but there are definitely Ammonite fossils that large. Just in case anyone had any doubts.
Oh yeah and there are ones bigger than the one shown is this post too. Like this one:
Seems risky...
I choose to believe these are just very very small people
That’s a giant turd.
Decoy snail