Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'?
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 days ago
FWIW, I recently watched a creationist video and they complained about the same thing - and showed footage of one of the few real skeletons 🤦
Dinosaurs were real. We find their bones all the time. You can imagine that they’re not in pristine condition. We classify them and mull over them together. We build reconstructions. Some contain mainly real bones. Others don’t. They are still of educational value.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, if we are talking about dinosaurs, it is real fossils of bones; not real bones, but otherwise, yes
groet@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not sure if there are tar pits with dinosaur bones but there are bones (not petrified bones) of post-dinosaur megafauna like sabertooths in the La Break tar pit in Los Angeles. There probably exists a real dinosaur bone somewhere on the planet.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure but i dont know of any that have been found. So none of the ones in museums would be “real” bones in the way most people would think. I know its sort of pedantic here but fossils are rocks not bones