Never really thought about it, before.
That awkward moment when you realize plastic dinosaurs are made of actual dinosaurs.
— Fantasy Author (@BrianRathbone) June 9, 2016
Mind you, birds become much cooler when you realize that they’re themselves the optimized descendants of dinosaurs…
Or, as Blackwing says, a super-advanced flying stealth dinosaur.
You realize if Titan really has petroleum seas the whole concept of “fossil fuels” goes out the window, don’t you?
Methane, IIRC, which comes from multiple sources.
Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
Cassini mission news 2/13/08
Not methane.
Titan Oil Company .. has a nice ring to it.
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Mew
Titan Oil & Coal there seems to be coal-like deposits near the equator.
Some birds know that they are descended from dinosaurs.
Not to be an Uber Nerd but technically the oil those plastic dinosaurs are from comes from the Carboniferous. ~50ma before the first dinosaurs. 😉
Depends on the deposit. Quite a lot of crude predates the Carboniferous.
As I understand it, oil and natural gas are primarily derived from algae and other plant life, rather than animals.
IIRC, most petroleum in this country dates to the Ordovician or the Devonian.
(But don’t quote me on that. It’s been two and a half decades since I was working on Geology major.)