That's the mind blowing thing about fossils. The chances of one forming are one in millions... but there have been so many living organisms on Earth that finding them turns out to be pretty trivial. One of my most mind blowing memories as a child involves tripping on a rock in my grandparents' yard, pulling it out, and revealing on its surface the perfect carbon imprint of some fern-like looking plant.
And then we have the one in a million chance of finding the one in a million site, which leads to what the article describes. Pretty awesome.
I see a lot of expression of scepticism, echo-chamber style, but not much ‘reason’.
The central attack seems to be a straw-man; that it’s not a dinosaur graveyard, something that was never claimed in the article at all. It’s like they read the title, and jumped on Twitter without reading the whole article.
That the first paper doesn't talk about dinosaurs is reason for skepticism? He didn't tell us everything in the first paper, therefore it's probably bullshit?
I didn't say that. But that link I provided was a working paleontologist, so I figured his skepticism was worth noting. I couldn't tell you if it's bullshit or not, as a non-expert in the field.
And then we have the one in a million chance of finding the one in a million site, which leads to what the article describes. Pretty awesome.