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I think if something lived for millions of years, and impacts on earth are not uncommon, it was bound to happen at some point. On a long enough timeline, impro
by newsclues 5y ago
I think if something lived for millions of years, and impacts on earth are not uncommon, it was bound to happen at some point.
On a long enough timeline, improbable events are expected.
- sideshowb 5y agoI don't think gp was questioning that, so much as the likelihood of finding more than one fossil from the same event, given all the times we could have found fossils from.
- justsid 5y agoWouldn’t this single event have a super high chance of generating fossils though giving that a) it wiped out a ton of life in one go and b) it released a huge amount of debris ready to cover things up nicely and preserve them?
- ncmncm 5y agoYes. What was incredibly lucky was the fossil stratum being exposed again at a time when we could spot them. There must be megatons more of this stuff, wholly inaccessible.