On the very same Virtual Fossil Friday as the one that inspired the previous graphic, Ashley, Maggie Jo, fellow VFF regular Amanda Perry, and guest speaker Dr. Kirk Thompson concocted a fantastic idea for a public service announcement poster about fossils featuring Mary Anning. I got the okay to create it, and I had so much fun putting it together.

 Today on Virtual Fossil Friday, Ashley and Maggie Jo got to talking about pickled specimens in museum collections, and Maggie Jo coined the slogan "We Can Pickle That" and said she wanted it on a t-shirt. I asked her if she wanted me to make her one, she was very excited about the idea, and so here we are. (Always great when I can get an excuse to draw a squid.)

You can get the design on apparel, stickers, and other stuff in my store!

 In Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, where Legendary Birds can be found roaming in the sky on the overworld, this could actually happen!

 Just how rare and difficult to obtain HMs are is kind of up for debate in the Pokémon world. Yes, you can't buy them in stores. But you also seem to just be able to obtain them for such trivial reasons that it's like people are trying to get rid of them. 

I'm kinda glad HMs have been phased out in more recent games. They were a clever method for gating player progress in the early days, but it also meant you were stuck toting around a Pokémon (or several) who knew the requisite HMs to get you where you needed to go.

 Those times when grownups try to be cool and get in on a kids' fad and just end up embarrassing themselves. (Of course, according to my nieces, I'm still cool, so.)

I remember the 90's, when it seemed like no one over the age of 18 could pronounce or spell "Pokémon" correctly.

 I thought of another Nanotyrannus illustration I wanted to do; this time I used N. lethaeus (the larger of the two species, exemplified by the specimen "Jane"). I had fun kinda making her look like a sullen teenager. You'd be annoyed too if scientists spent decades trying to figure out your taxonomic status!

You can find this design on merch in my store!

 While at first it seems awesome to find useful items in obscure places that apparently other people lost at some point... it makes you wonder how long those things have been lying around, and if you should really be feeding them to your Pokémon.