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when I asked google how long it takes for a skeleton to decompose this is the answer I got. "If animals do not destroy or move the bones, skeletons normally take around 20 years to dissolve in fertile soil. However, in sand or neutral soil, skeletons can remain intact for hundreds of years". We have dinosaur bones in museums today that are 100's of millions of year old. If mineralization doesn't happen quickly, there is no way any full skeletons of any creature from the past would exist. Radiation from space (solar flares) is what mineralizes organic matter and it has created every mineral on this and every other rocky planet in the universe.
Petrifaction is a process by which organic matter is turned into stone over time. This typically occurs through a process called permineralization. In this process, the organic material is buried, and then slowly replaced by water-soluble minerals. These minerals fill the space formerly occupied by the organic material, resulting in a petrified copy of the original material.
Jan. 27, 2023, 3:35 p.m.
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