A video of a conspiracy idealogue has gone over the last few daytime , in which she ask over people to put their " critical thinking skill to the test " and asks " If dinosaurs actually existed , would n’t their bones be everywhere ? "
While it ’s odd vital cerebration to cut all the evidence we have that dinosaur existed because we have n’t found even more evidence that they be , it is nevertheless a play question , and one that has been answered many times for anyone who want to strike up Google before they memorialise a video .
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First off , dinosaur fossils have been found onall continents . They are n’t evenly deal , but that is n’t because of some outre conspiracy to plant these bones inMontana . It ’s because fossilisation is rarefied , and take seat only under specific condition .
When an animal dies , for it to become fossilized , it needs to be buried by deposit before being cover by many more layers of sediment . As the pressure builds up , they are constrict to form sedimentary rock . During the process , minerals seep into the incased beast bones , turning them into rock .
As this call for sediment buildup on top of the brute carcass , almost all the fossils we have found have been in the seas , where the sand and clay can wash over the body . dinosaur that die above ground seldom become fossilized .
" Most of the dinosaur fossils we find are from beast that were living near to a lake or river , " Dr David Button , dinosaur researcher at theNatural History Museumexplained in a opus on their site .
" Some die in short before the area flooded and cover their cadaver in clay and silt . Others were washed into a river by enceinte rainfall . "
It would be dandy if we could find dinosaur everywhere . Frustratingly , due to the manner fossils are grow , there are likely many , many metal money that we will never discover .
" We do n’t know about many dinosaur that lived in hobo camp or mountain environment . fossil are very unlikely to mold in such situations , " Button added .
Onestudyin 2006 estimated that around 71 percentage of dinosaurs remained strange . Some craggy dinosaur could , in theory , have been swept down a mountain to a riverbed where fossilization could take place , but it ’s not common . As a result , we know short of their unequaled adaptions .
“ While animals in these areas may have had lowland relatives , it ’s quite possible there were small clade specialized to environments where they were unlikely to become dodo , " New York Institute of Technology paleontologist Karen Poole told theSmithsonian .
In short , dinosaurs are find all over the seat , but only became fossilise under the proper circumstances . The less said aboutNephilim , mentioned at the ending of the video , the better .
