Re: I think I have something on extinction

[ST-grock@artemis.earth.monash.edu.au (Darren R. Grocke)]

WILLIAD5@FIRN.EDU wrote:

>Yes, but if it was "just right" then it might have a few dents in them.  
>Well not really.  WHen the bones were fossilized then the "dents" would 
>have been either smoothed out or rendered unrecognizabe in some other way.  

Who's to say that.  Tooth scratches, for example, can be fossilised - it
solely depends on the environmental setting which the bones, etc., are
being fossilised.

Darren

Darren R. Grocke
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