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by ramesh31 746 days ago
There are untold millions of fossils waiting to be found. We will never have a shortage of them. This would have never been excavated if it were not for the financial incentive to do so.
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> untold millions of fossils waiting to be found. We will never have a shortage of them.

I would argue that there are very much a finite amount of fossils. esspecialy of larger animals. fossilization is a rare event.

>fossilization is a rare event.

Indeed, but it has been happening for hundreds of millions of years for billions of individual organisms, and we haven't excavated even a fraction of a percent of their possible locations.

less than 1% of all species to exist have been found as fossils. 1% of a billion is a large number but its still finite and not all fossils are the same. we dont' know their value till they are dug up and studied with teh context of where they were found in tact.