I like Dinosaurs.
Oct. 23rd, 2025 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petsohpGo to Japan for the food, music and games? No.
I must go to Japan and head over to Katsuyama City, in Fukui prefecture to go to the really well regarded dinosaur museum.
Katsuyama City over the last couple of years has experience a huge public boost. But still among international normies, even Saitama City is thought as 'a must' visit location if you ever travel to Japan before anything Fukui prefecture related.
If I ever go to Japan, however, I literally do not care in anything that isn't my first priority: visiting the city that has transformed into a basin of knowledge about dinosaurs. 80% percent of Japan's dinosaurs fossils have been found in Fukui prefecture, in expeditions carried out by the prefecture's government. Yeah uh, Fukui City is the capital of the prefecture but the museum is located in Katsuyama City due to its location within Kitadani Formation. Over the years it's pretty obvious the local Katsuyama officials has decided to spent money on the dinos and it's image (its goddamn manholes look like this) but its Fukui prefecture overall that paid for the first initial expeditions, and as the center of the city, it's buses look like this.
There's a long standing theory about dinosaurs and humans: and it's that maybe we've always known they existed in some capacity. It would explain something fundamental about many of the myths found all over the world. The myths of dragons, drakens, griffins, the quetzalcoatl, phoenixs, basiliks, mushussu, I...okay you get the gist.
Myths are understood to be the beginning as to how early human explained natural disasters and other common aspects in life they didn't had the definite answer to. So why not extend this courtesy all the way throught? Maybe our ancestors were confident in their beliefs of these 'mythical' beasts that may not really that mythical in the sense of not existing; because as time and technology developed, we've proved they did.
Maybe some of our ancestors just scavenged some giant bones, like we do right now..
I must go to Japan and head over to Katsuyama City, in Fukui prefecture to go to the really well regarded dinosaur museum.
Katsuyama City over the last couple of years has experience a huge public boost. But still among international normies, even Saitama City is thought as 'a must' visit location if you ever travel to Japan before anything Fukui prefecture related.
If I ever go to Japan, however, I literally do not care in anything that isn't my first priority: visiting the city that has transformed into a basin of knowledge about dinosaurs. 80% percent of Japan's dinosaurs fossils have been found in Fukui prefecture, in expeditions carried out by the prefecture's government. Yeah uh, Fukui City is the capital of the prefecture but the museum is located in Katsuyama City due to its location within Kitadani Formation. Over the years it's pretty obvious the local Katsuyama officials has decided to spent money on the dinos and it's image (its goddamn manholes look like this) but its Fukui prefecture overall that paid for the first initial expeditions, and as the center of the city, it's buses look like this.
There's a long standing theory about dinosaurs and humans: and it's that maybe we've always known they existed in some capacity. It would explain something fundamental about many of the myths found all over the world. The myths of dragons, drakens, griffins, the quetzalcoatl, phoenixs, basiliks, mushussu, I...okay you get the gist.
Myths are understood to be the beginning as to how early human explained natural disasters and other common aspects in life they didn't had the definite answer to. So why not extend this courtesy all the way throught? Maybe our ancestors were confident in their beliefs of these 'mythical' beasts that may not really that mythical in the sense of not existing; because as time and technology developed, we've proved they did.
Maybe some of our ancestors just scavenged some giant bones, like we do right now..
