Eli5 how is crude oil made?

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As a child, I was always told that when the dinosaurs died, they eventually got broken down into crude oil, which get refined into a list of products.

Well I seen a post somewhere that was saying the crude oil wasn’t made from dinosaurs. So if it’s not made from the remains of the dinos, how it is made then.

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Let’s go Sponge Bob on this one.

Plankton was the tiny, give me the Crabby Patty formula guy.

Then realize that if you have millions and millions of tiny plankton dying and falling to the ocean floor over millions of years, the carbon life juice can get squeezed out and pool together to form oil.

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