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[–] teft@lemmy.world 185 points 2 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.

[–] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 56 points 2 months ago

Stop destroying the dream!!

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 39 points 2 months ago

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

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] teft@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 2 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.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a full-length porno film to me.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 2 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)

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that theropods weren't terrestrial?

[–] Guest_User@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Just look at them, they are clearly extraterrestrial!

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 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.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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"

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...who cooks nuggets in a pan???

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re extra crispy if you pan fry in a little oil.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 1 points 2 months ago

I prefer the kind of crispyness that only a deepfrier can achieve. You know what I'm saying?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 36 points 2 months ago
[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Crude is mostly prehistoric plants, not Dino

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 29 points 2 months ago

Also there are ultra-popular movies about you.

However they keep messing up how you look on purpose, because since they've learned more about you, they think all the made-up bullshit was cooler than the real you.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

There are also shark shaped fish sticks....do you like fish sticks?

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't care if I am eaten after I die. Go nuts.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What kind of nut would you suggest baking with you? I'm thinking pecans.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I'm preferential to walnut

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Don't ask what's it like for our remains in the future.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

"What's a human?"

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Whole lots of BM

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think bones alone count as a corpse, so the fossilized remains of bones definitely don't.