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Our nucleic acid recovery techinques found a great deal of homo sapiens DNA incorporated into the fossils, particularly the ones containing high levels of resin, leading to the theory that these dinosaurs preyed on the once-dominant primates.

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[Three squid-like aliens in a classroom; one alien stands in front of a board covered with minute text and a drawing of a T-Rex skeleton. Two aliens sit on stools watching the teacher alien. The teacher alien on the left is on a raised platform and points at the board with one tentacle.]
Left alien: Species such as triceratops and tyrannosaurus became more rare after the Cretaceous, but they survived to flourish in the late Cenozoic, 66 million years later.
Left alien: Many complete skeletons have been discovered from this era.

[Caption below the panel:]
It's going to be really funny when our museums get buried in sediment.

https://www.xkcd.com/2990/
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[–] I_Has_A_Hat 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you go to a museum and see an impressive skeleton of a dinosaur, you're not actually looking at dinosaur bones. And no, I don't mean because they've calcified and become "rock". I mean the real bones are in a drawer somewhere, if they even exist. What you're looking at is plaster, often with many of the pieces wholly created from scratch in order to produce a full skeleton.

[–] Shanedino 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is talking about fossils, they are not bones, just imprint of them.

[–] Shanedino 3 points 1 day ago

No he is not and he clearly states that. You clearly didn't read the comment, just glanced at it.

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