Dave Hone

And then sooner or later, they'll find something and then you've got it.

That's the super easy way.

The only slightly more complicated way is you go to somewhere where geologically we know it's the right age and it's the right kind of rock.

And ideally fossils have been reported from there before.

And again, you know, geologists map all the world's geology years ago in quite a lot of detail.

There's gaps.

There's places where we don't have the details.

But in general, we know.

And then you go there and then you walk around and you look.

And that's basically it.

Yeah.

So you always get the, so there's this constant, and I think, you know, borderline myth of the idea that dinosaurs and mammoths and lots of other fossil things like entered lots of indigenous cultures because it's impossible that the guys were wandering around, say Dakota and the native Americans didn't come across some dinosaur fossils.

That I'd agree with.

It's pretty much impossible they didn't come across some dinosaur fossils.

Did they come across a whole skeleton laid out on the ground?

No, because those don't usually exist.

Because even if they're tougher or, it doesn't matter if they're tougher or weaker than the surrounding rock, dinosaur bones are, you know, in some way, shape, or form, they're lithified, they turn to rock, and they will absorb some of the minerals from whatever they've been buried in.

And so even in places like Mongolia and Northern China, where I've been to, where actually the fossil bone is quite a lot tougher than the sandstone that it's embedded in.

Like you can find a bit of bone and pull it out, like almost like rub it with your hands and the sand comes off.

There's your bone.