• teft@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Mostly they disintegrate. Some become fossils depending on how they died and the conditions surrounding their body.

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      I think it’s just that there’s many orders of magnitude more plankton than anything else, so the dinos might still have ended up as oil, just a negligible fraction (though this is a complete guess by me)

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      No, they just haven’t been clarifying.

      It was an early misunderstanding of tar pit and peat bog excavations as I understand it.

      Schools should teach about the bone wars and how they set back set back research by hundreds of years and created dinosaur myths that persist to this day.