Pablo Saavedra Garfias: As a child it was cool to think that oil is a kind of dinosaur soup, but this is pure fantasy. “For some strange reason, the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs has stuck with many people" but is a #myth. Oil forms when trillions of tiny algae & plankton in the sea died, & sank to the sea bottom 🧪🎢⚒️

As a child it was cool to think that oil is a kind of dinosaur soup, but this is pure fantasy. “For some strange reason, the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs has stuck with many people" but is a #myth. Oil forms when trillions of tiny algae & plankton in the sea died, & sank to the sea bottom 🧪🎢⚒️

No, oil does not come from dinosaurswww.sciencenorway.no “This myth must be debunked,” says Norwegian geologist

interesting article, but the persistence the myth isn’t terribly mysterious: it was a whole marketing campaign starting in the ‘30. we still have dinosaurs outside of a few gas stations in the US

DINO History | Sinclair Oilwww.sinclairoil.com The Sinclair dinosaur is one of the most popular icons in American petroliana. But where did he come from? Sinclair’s advertising writers first had the idea to use dinosaurs in Sinclair marketing ba...

Never thought that.

Chicken nuggets in Dino form are still funny tho.

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