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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Wait, has school been lying ALL This time? What actually happens to bones?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That sounds so bad ass. The bone wars, I would pay extra attention to that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

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)