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    • Flying SquidOP
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      166 months ago

      Gotta love that they went with a snail, which already has a calcified shell, and whose soft parts are only very rarely preserved as fossils. It’s a really bad example.

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      The buffaloes shot by cowboys 150 years ago never turned into fossils.

      Really makes you stop and think, doesn’t it?

      Should be a butt ton of fossils in southern Brazil soon.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        6 months ago

        There are buffalo jumps, which have been in use for thousands of years and have countless bones of the animals driven off of them that have never fossilized.

        • @grue
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          26 months ago

          Wow, that’s some ruthless efficiency right there. TIL.