It’s a commonly spread fiction that oil comes from dinosaurs because when people hear fossils, their brains immediately jump to dinosaurs. However, that’s not the case.
The truth may be less exciting to some, but oil and other fossil fuels are not actually formed from the remains of dinosaurs. The oil we’re drilling and pumping to the surface as fuel is formed from diatoms, small organisms such as algae and bacteria that lived long before dinosaurs even existed. Source
@roguetrick@TheSlad I occasionally talk to groups kids or sometimes adults about dinosaurs. A lot of them are still surprised to learn that all birds actually are dinosaurs (descendants from the only lineage(s) that managed to survive the K-Pg extinction event).
Surprisingly (or perhaps not surprisingly) people’re often resistant to the idea that birds are dinosaurs, i.e. that not all dinosaurs died out. The fact that many were feathered is helping shift the paradigm
@ProfessorProteus@_haha_oh_wow_ Given that there’s a finite number of carbon atoms & water molecules etc on the planet (setting aside the stuff that arrives on meteorites etc), there’s no doubt that in your body, & almost certainly in the steak or salad or whatever you’re eating, there’ll be some molecules that were inside a few dinosaurs, & quite possibly passed through the guts of one & of various other animals too (from the Hadean to a few days ago) at some point.