aquilolamna when i think of Romeo and Juliet, arguably the most famous love story ever told though it makes me cringe, i know that they won’t last as long as the fossil of a Cretaceous period shark that lived between 66 and 93 million years ago yes, this is a love-poem for a fossil of a shark or perhaps just for its achievement of immortality when i see god, i see him in the little things the flawless design of limestone— a rock made out of bones, monuments like Stonehenge, and the pyramids, the most immense funeral lie ever told the perfect conditions must exist in order to preserve cartilage in limestone the coincidence must be immense that one specific aquilolamna milarcae sank to the bottom beneath silt, hidden from scavengers until eons had passed and someone discovered it
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