There are fossilized humans. Fossilization really doesn't take that much time, geologically speaking; it just requires very specific conditions.
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About how much time are we talkin here?
Your teeth can fossilise while they're still in your mouth. We call it tartar.
I know there's some animal fossils in New Zealand that date back to its colonization by the ancestors of the Maori, so about the 1400s. Though I don't know if they are partially or fully fossilized.
Well, there are human fossiles aswell and we have been here for a pretty short time.
Speed running fucking it up too
So, technically there could be a paleantology dinosaur?
Yes, just like there are archeologists digging human fossilized bones now.
This meme made me gasp loud enough that my girlfriend was worried something was wrong.
Then I had to explain that I'm 41 years old and was just shocked by a dinosaur fact.
Forty-one?! You're practically a fossil!
Also, my favourite fact is we know almost nothing about dinosaurs from jungles and mountains. Most of our knowledge comes from wetland and oceanic creatures because of the way fossils are formed.
To be fair, things can fossilise very quickly given ideal conditions. Still dinosaurs reigned for a lot more time than mammals and frankly nature is still feeling the loss in certain ways.
https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/
Another fun fact (dino facts are the best facts): There are more "dinosaur" species alive today than there are mammal species.
11,000 bird species alive today (approx)
6,000 mammal species alive today (approx)
And their all bats.
Who is “they” and why do they have “all bats”? Also, what’s an all bat?
On a more serious note, I didn’t know most bird species were bats. That’s wild.
It is more chronologically accurate to show a t-rex being hit by a car than it is to show a t-rex eating a stegosaurus
I don't remember that episode of the Flintstones
Is it a self-driving car?
I said I'm sorry. But if you're going to let your T-Rex out at night you should at least put a reflective collar on it.
The only interaction I've seen between a T-Rex and a collar is that one scene from The Lost World. Based on what I saw there, I have to assume that collars wouldn't really work for them.
Hi, I was just calling because I live down the street from you, and your daughter come to my house today and she kick my t-rex.
Your daughter come to my house today, And she come on my property and then she kick my t-rex. And now my t-rex needs operation.
We don't know you
How cruel.
My T-Rex ist mostly armless
That would be a knee slapper if I could reach.
This is the comparison I was looking for. It’s great to explain that media shows them together but untrue, it is a totally different idea to explain the staggering time difference between the two.
Well, there are plenty of hominid fossils and we humans are plentiful.
[off topic]
The Gryphon's Skull is a fun read. Two Greek traders, circa 300 BC, discover a dinosaur fossil...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-gryphon-s-skull-harry-turtledove/8156325?ean=9781612421421&next=t
If you like fun but also well-researched stories about people living in pre-modern times, you might also enjoy the weird medieval guys podcast :) They actually did an episode on fossils recently. Another funny story they mention is the one of Johann Beringer's "Lying Stones".
Does getting buried in pumice count as becoming a fossil? Because Pompeii was only a couple thousand years ago.
From wikipedia: A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis, lit. 'obtained by digging')[1] is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Answer: yes. It does count. Specifically carbonization.
Personal take: when I think of a "fossil", I think of the stereotypical mineralized bones. Like the T-Rex in the museum of natural history that most people have seen from various movies and TV shows. Thinking of human and human predecessor bones as fossils is just weird to me.
Is Pompeii from a past geological age?
2000 years ago doesn't seem important on geological time scales.
This is only mind blowing because popular media likes to show every dinosaur at once. Like there's a lot of things depicting stegosaurus fighting T-Rex; but these animals never would have met. They're from entirely different periods.
We live closer to the time of T-Rex than T-Rex lived to the time of Stegosaurus.
67 million years separate us from T-Rex.
83 million years separate T-Rex from Stegosaurus. (150 million years between us and Stegosaurus)
on a similar note: When cleopatra lived, the pyramids were already ancient
Cleopatra lived closer to t-rex than us
You were born after cleopatra died 🫠🤑👻
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Woah
Wtf 🤯
How dare you suggest DinoTrux lied to us!!!
If gasoline is made from dinosaurs, what did the Dinotrux run on?
DinoTrux drove the earth for such a long time BP Oil^®^ existed while DinoTrux drove the earth.
The blood of their enemies!!!
You can tell because non of them has feathers.