Hello Wheely,
Wheely writes:
I never suggested that scavengers eat teeth. I was saying that if an animal was to die, with a combination of scavengers, entropy and the elements the animal will be gone before it can be encased into a layer of sediment and fossilized. In order for that to happen, it has to happen very fast.
I have seen first hand how rapid bones can become covered with sediment. At my little fishing hole, there was a cow that died trying to reach the water. It smelled for weeks until bacteria and scavengers stripped the carcus of the decaying flesh. After the decompsition process was finished all that remained were the bones of the animal. It has now been two years since that happened and when I recently went back to the spot that the animal had died at, all the bones were covered by at least three inches of sediment. So obviously just from first hand expierence, your statement about no bones remaining to be buried, I know is false.
Wheely writes:
my friend says in the resources I provide above is that it has been scientifically proven that ”fish’ decompose within no time; that is days. To my recollection he doesn’t say how fast shark bones decompose, but sharks are fishes, so I am making an assumption that they also disintegrate very quickly; perhaps not as fast as say the fish in your fish tank will, but still very quickly.
The reason why we find so many fossilized shark teeth and not shark skeletons. Is because of the fact that sharks skeletons just like fish skeletons are primarily composed of cartilage, not bone. The only thing made of bone is the teeth. Which is why sharks decompose so quickly and utterly, leaving behind only the teeth for preservation via fossilization.
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