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Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

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201 points geox | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 23:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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lenkite ◴[19 Oct 24 18:59 UTC] No.41889828[source]▶
Nice! A real life demonstration of the creation of fossil fuels.
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1. passwordoops ◴[20 Oct 24 12:02 UTC] No.41894783[source]▶
No. In nature this oil would be degraded very quickly (eaten or oxidized). Read this for a basic primer on the formation of petroleum sources:

https://www.norskpetroleum.no/en/petroleum-resources/petrole...