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I was reading an article in the latest FT when a question arose - how do we get fossil footprints? Actually, more specifically, how do footprints last long enough to become fossils? Wouldn't they get washed away, covered up or otherwise destroyed?
And the age of fossils. Whenever an object is found in strata too old to contain it (or a similar scenario when it's carbon dated etc and found to be older than it supposedly could be) how come there never appears to be a suggestion that the actual dating process itself could be inaccurate, rather than the usual two choices of a) we have to rethink current theories or b) it's a fake?
Probably both rather silly questions, with an obvious answer, but I can't find it at the bottom of a bottle of Baileys
And the age of fossils. Whenever an object is found in strata too old to contain it (or a similar scenario when it's carbon dated etc and found to be older than it supposedly could be) how come there never appears to be a suggestion that the actual dating process itself could be inaccurate, rather than the usual two choices of a) we have to rethink current theories or b) it's a fake?
Probably both rather silly questions, with an obvious answer, but I can't find it at the bottom of a bottle of Baileys