If not for fossilization, would we know dinosaurs existed?

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If not for fossilization, would we know dinosaurs existed?

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Part of this comes down to how broadly you’d like to define the term fossils.

If we just lost the fossilized bones, we’d still have footprints and other impressions from being buried in mud or ash. You wouldn’t really be able to piece together what it was from a footprint, but you’d know there used to be something really big, and really weird around that we don’t see anymore.