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🦴🦖 How did dinosaur fossils come about?

🦴🦖 How did dinosaur fossils come about?

When we saw the dinosaur skeleton in the museum,

Many people might think

It's a "dormant" bone.

But the truth is,

Fossilization requires very special conditions.

Most animals... have no chance of becoming fossils.

1️⃣ The Beginning - The "Right Place" Death

When the dinosaurs died,

If the remains were left outdoors,

It will be eaten, decomposed or decomposed quickly.

Remains that have a chance of becoming fossils.

Often have to.

• Dead near water

• Be quickly buried with mud or sand.

• Avoid predators and the air

Being buried early.

Is the first key

2️⃣. Burial - Protect the remains from disappearing.

When the remains are buried underground,

Oxygen will be less accessible.

Bacteria and carcass eaters

Work slower

Soft part

like muscles, skin,

Will gradually dissolve.

Only left.

Hard parts like bones and teeth.

3️⃣ Time - a hugely long variable.

Fossil birth

It doesn't take a year or a thousand years.

But take time.

A million years.

Minerals from groundwater

Gradually seep into the bone gap.

Replace the original bone meat little by little.

This process is called

Permineralisation

4️⃣ The bones turned to stone.

Over time,

Bones will no longer be "bones."

But became

Stones of shape and structure.

Like exactly the same bone.

Which is why

Fossils are hard as rocks.

And much heavier than real bones.

5️⃣ The movement of the Earth.

The land moves.

The soil layer was pushed up.

Eroded water

Until the fossils that used to be deeply buried

Popped up near the surface of the earth.

Sometimes.

It took tens of millions of years.

Before humans have a chance to find it.

6️⃣ Not just bones.

Fossils don't just have skeletons.

But also

• Footprint

• Eggs

• Shit (coprolite)

• Bite marks

• Skin marks

These things.

Helps us understand the life of dinosaurs.

More than just shape.

🧠 Why are fossils so rare?

Because the conditions have to be very "fit."

Dead in the wrong place

Was buried slowly.

Or destroyed first.

Never become a fossil.

So...

Every fossil

Is a huge coincidence.

✨. End of chapter.

Trillions of organisms

Used to walk on this earth

But there's only a very small minority.

That left us a trail.

Fossils are not just rocks.

But it is.

Messages from the rest of the past come incredibly well.

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