• teft@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

      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.