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[–] [email protected] 184 points 11 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 11 months ago

Stop destroying the dream!!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that theropods weren't terrestrial?

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

Just look at them, they are clearly extraterrestrial!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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"