Could have save almost a whole paragraph by just saying “I learned this in college” college really does make people dumb. It’s Unique in the fact that the people that it makes dumb, thinks their smart. So funny
I wonder about that all the time. For example the big red inflatable sac of the frigate bird would not show up in the fossil record but dang is it even a frigate bird without it?
Fun fact: less than 0.1% of animals become fossils, and places like rainforests, with the highest biodiversity on Earth decompose animals too fast for them to almost ever become fossils, meaning the most exotic dinosaurs, exotic even to other dinosaurs, have been lost to time forever
most dinosaurs are preserved in floodplains so this is sort of wrong. It really has more to do with the depositional type of preservational bias. The kaiparowits formation is a good example of a rainforest that preserves many dinosaurs, and to your point, diverse ecologies exist today in those environments which is no different for the kaiparowits. It has nothing to do with this decay rate and everything to do with the rate of deposition, which generally is just a measure of how much uplift is going on and how near a running water body is to that eroding uplifted rock.
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Proof that herbivores are actually carnivores: (And yes, I know that facultative herbivores exist, so no need to be that one smart guy in the comments)
You got that mostly right, the animal/plant or whatever is to be fossilized does have to be covered rapidly to prevent decay, but it does not actually have to take a long to become a fossil. A perfect illustration being the trees that were swept away by the Mt. St. Helens eruption. Many trees are already fossilized as a result from that.
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It does not take millions of years. Things have been show to become petrified/fossilized in a matter of weeks or months. It taking "millions of years" is an old misconception.
Fun fact: this same process happens with plants, and they'll preserve to the cellular level because of their cell walls (look up coal ball thin sections).
A friendly reminder here that each layer of deposition is caused by completely different types of processes and can not be explained by any one large process. As well as that the science is well understood around how long it takes for wach later to form, and it would take an entirely new theory of physics to describe all of that happening at any different rate.
Well the Organic cells break down, being lost in the dirt and rock around it itself, with the part where the cells broke down being now empty to be filled by stone. Similar to what happened to the people of Pampe
Not true, animals encased in ice or tree sap aka amber are still basically the way their bodies were apon death. They have not turned to stone. When mammoths and woolly rhino's fell in to ice or froze and then buried in it, their bodies didn't decay. And insects in amber are still the same encased in it as they were when alive. Fossilized animals no longer have DNA or marrow in their bones, just minerals that took over replacing live bone with rock.
@bbqsean1244 not at all related to what I was talking about. Also it took us roughly 11,800 years after we settled into civilizations to discover dinosaurs, and a big part of the reason it took so long is because the majority of dino fossils are in the americas. We would've found a sasquatch by now is what I'm saying.
@bbq878 Idk where you got these millions of years figure from but you're sorely mistaken. Which is probably why you deleted your other comments. Even if we did know what they were, Mankind has found fossilized evidence of prehistoric fauna and megafauna since literally rhe Greek and Roman civilizations. There is a fairly good theory that the myth of the cyclops came about from improperly putting together mammoth bones that had been found. Not to mention the fact that even Modern Chinese villiages sell dinosaur fossils as "Dragon Bones" As we have found some of the highest amounts of recorded fossilized remains In North America, if there was a population large enough to be consistently sighted as often as you hear about the ones relating to some form of sasqwach, we would have found those same remains. If you want to know about an animal that was akin to an almost real life Bigfoot, Look up Giganto pithicus.
@@ditkovichpaysmyrent You make a great point. But the thing is that they are only going to be around for not much longer. Whereas the new generation LOVES to spread misinformation.
"...and is rapidly buried underneath the ground", is deceptively misleading. For an organism to be rapidly buried, it isn’t the "ground" that rapidly buries it. It is a cataclysmic event that violently introduces a mass (usually mud) to bury the organism. Most animations deceptively show an aquatic organism (usually a fish) peacefully die, and then slowly "float" to the bottom of the body of water, where it lies while silt ever so slowly and gently covers it up, while curiously omitting the most common disposition of dead organisms, that of being eaten by scavengers, or rotting into oblivion. In brief, fossilization is preceded by a rapid mass burial (which is most often the cause of death).
@@Bildad1976So how can the fossils that were buried thousand of years ago, deep into the underground come back up for archeologists to do archeology stuffs? In the video, he said the body must be buried far enough from the oxygen deep enough into the ground to not let oxygen oxidized it (i guess) so can the fossils just come up to the surface? How could they do that? Is it because of earthquakes that move the ground or something? Edit: please I'm not arguing, i'm just curious and you look like you're very good at these so forgive me for asking. My English is not good so people usually mistake my questions for being passive aggressive or being an asshole but i'm really not. I want to know more. If possible, please let me know. Thank you.
Yes, but it is an extremely rare process, so rare we don't know like 95% of life that's been on earth (I'm not 100% sure if that's the EXACT percentage but it's really high!!)
@@Suusleepyno it’s almost entirely speculative science is a great guessing game we play with the universe that never ends. Fortunately we can establish a few baseline rules to explain and understand it.
