Does anyone besides me find it interesting that when we dig up bones from the recent ice age they’re still bones, but going back further, all the fossils are mineralized.
If mammoths and dinosaurs lived in the same millennium, what special miracle mineralized the dino bones and left the mammoth bones intact?
It’s even more interesting that there seems to be a belief that mineralization can occur over the span of just a few years. I read a post here a couple of days ago in which the author reports the existence of a lake in which logs turned to stone almost immediately. Although the newly “stoned” logs are now nowhere to be found, the poster was convinced of the story’s veracity because there were eyewitnesses.
Terry Cook has a collection of mammoth femurs that are fully mineral, along with tusks, and petrified wood, all from the same excavation in the former Parachini Ranch, along Hillcrest Avenue in Antioch.