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> a rapid increasing in global temperature (and CO2 concentrations) around between 60-50 million years ago

> a civilization like this would not leave a trace on the geological record

Am curious: if dinosaurs can be found with intact skin [1], after 110 million years, why not remains of the civilization's "people" (bones etc.) after 60-50 million years?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealopelta



They might have just been much better than dinosaurs at not drowning in bogs and other rare fossil-promoting circumstances.


And number of dinosaurs found compared to number of individual dinosaurs that ever lived is staggeringly low.


Not a biologist, but OTOH they might have had a very different body structure that doesn't conserve well, e.g. like molluscs.

Or maybe we _did__ find their remains and just have no idea they were part of an intelligent civilization. I mean, that's not a question any respectable researcher would be inclined to raise in the paper about the discovery...


I think the point is that the 'people'/their remains might be findable, but trace or proof of their civilization would not?




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