Dr. Yara Haridi
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And so it survives really well.
It's already very crystallized.
So like how much more crystallized can the earth make you?
So they survive really, really well.
A bone being secondary to that.
But there are exceptional preservation moments in Earth where the right bacteria didn't get to it or the right bacteria did get to it.
And they preserve feathers.
They preserve skin.
We now have ichthyosaur blubber.
People have actually done isotopic measurements and know that it's fat that was preserved in a really interesting chemical way.
And it is rock.
Not always.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So fair, right?
That's kind of the old thinking of like, well, it's just an impression.
Like the scales, for example.
Like how do, you know, like dinosaur mummies and stuff.
Sometimes they are impressions.
Sometimes the soft tissue left an impression and then disappeared.
Sometimes the tissue itself gets mineralized.