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Fossils on Fossils (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] WoodScientist 140 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are fossilized humans. Fossilization really doesn't take that much time, geologically speaking; it just requires very specific conditions.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Also makes you wonder what fossils they mean, of the same species or then already extinct ones.

Because according to a quick Wikipedia search the oldest hominid fossils (?) are something like 7 millions years old

That's much much shorter than dinosaurs where around but hey " hominins are around long enough to unearth hominin fossils"!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

About how much time are we talkin here?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where are the bodies?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where's Rachel!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Where are the other drugs going?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know, swear to God

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

For some reason, I don't entirely believe you. Might be the whole God of Madness thing. You turning back into Jyggalag anytime soon? I'd like to know when to short the shit out of the entire market.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Human species before H. Sapiens

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Homer Sapiens?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

No homo, but the H is for homo

[–] vaultdweller013 7 points 1 day ago

I know there's some animal fossils in New Zealand that date back to its colonization by the ancestors of the Maori, so about the 1400s. Though I don't know if they are partially or fully fossilized.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Your teeth can fossilise while they're still in your mouth. We call it tartar.