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[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe I remember it incorrectly, but isn't most of the oil actually from plants far older than dinosaurs?

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Dead plants from before there were decomposers who could properly devour the corpses. Oil is lich-ferns

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

You are correct.

Which should make sense if anyone stops to think what kind of weird pile of dinosaurs in one spot would be required to be condensed into millions of barrels of oil.

[–] Beastimus@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, I think most of it is Carboniferous trees, technically the chicken nuggets are more accurate