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[–] [email protected] 185 points 4 months ago (6 children)

No energy products come from dinosaurs. Coal is from trees and oil is from plankton. Natural gas is a byproduct of oil.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago

Stop destroying the dream!!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago

No, can't be true. In Mrs. Doubtfire, it's explicitly said that crude oil is from the remainders of dinosaurs.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 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] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also birds are not the descendants of terrestrial dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs, but their ancestors were also birds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that theropods weren't terrestrial?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Just look at them, they are clearly extraterrestrial!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

They are.

The common ancestor of all dinosaurs was certainly terrestrial, so logically that means birds are the descendants of terrestrial dinosaurs. That was in the Trias. By the Jurassic, small tree-climbing theropods with feathers were gliding and soon starting to fly.

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

Oil is from plankton? Well, I learnt something today.

[edit] Is it because of the term fossil fuels and people go "wait, I've seen some fossils, OF DINOSAURS"