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Fossils (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wait, what does this mean? I genuinely thought fossils were the bones, preserved through lack of oxygen

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zBzDfvvdgA

Fun facts, we know next to nothing about dinosaurs that lived in jungles or mountains due to preservation conditions. They just disappear and do not get buried fast enough. We know the most about wetland dinos because those tend to have better conditions (e.g. bogs) to preserve things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Humanity's closest living relatives, the Chimpanzees, live in forests. They diverged from our lineage 6.5-7.5 million years ago, and there are almost no fossils for them. Except for a statistical fluke, someone studying solely the fossil record could be excused for thinking that they never existed at all... but they do!

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

Love me a good bog…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Hey, that's not fun!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Petrified forest are not trees that turned to stone. Petrified forests are trees covered in mud or something that hardened, then tree rotted away and the hollow(in the mold of the tree) was filled in by another type of rock, creating a something that looks like a petrified tree.