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what about the giant saddle-shaped fossil
In order to be fossilized something has to be in specific conditions. It probably just gets destroyed
that is true, but its still possble for it to fossilize
Possible and very unlikely
I mean, in terms of preserving the timeline and not leaving the tiny chance of fossilised saddles. They brought it with them, why not just take it back too so it's not even there.
I don't have any experience burning leather but wouldn't "molten debris" be hot enough to completely destroy it?
Edit: Don't thing's like dinosaur skin only get preserved if they fell in tar pits or were encased in amber?
That might leave some archeologists very confused, especially when they try to date it and it turns out to be from the future.
it would probably be paleontologists since no human existed at the time and dating just doesnt work like that, since the saddle fossil still aged millions of years (also from stuff this old its hard to age things, so its more probable something around the same layer would be aged instead of the specific fossil)
well obviously I was making a joke about the dating part
yeah