Why are there so few dino fossils in the Balkans, is it due to the terrain or lack of research/incentive?

[u/Dizzy_Arachnid4292]

[u/AFKE0]

Lack of research probably plays a factor but for most of the time the world existed, Balkans and Anatolia have been under water. These parts of the world are relatively young. So dinosaurs haven’t tread these grounds.

[u/Final-Nebula-7049 → u/AFKE0]

Dinosaurs would not dare disrespect Erdoğan by littering their bones all over the sacred lands

[u/rinel521 → u/Final-Nebula-7049]

If dinosaurs existed today they would support erodgan

[u/Final-Nebula-7049 → u/rinel521]

they do, we just can't get rid of them quick enough.

[u/WillAndHonesty → u/AFKE0]

Rhodope Mountains range ( central & east Balkans ) have existed before the dinosaurs got extinct

[u/ilovemangos3 → u/AFKE0]

Unrelated but does it bother you when people say Turkey instead of turkiye when speaking english

[u/osumanjeiran → u/ilovemangos3]

I myself say Turkey cause it feels more natural and flows better in English. I don't think anybody cares

[u/AFKE0 → u/ilovemangos3]

When someone says "Turkiye" I cringe. It's Turkey in English Türkiye in Turkish. I don't have any clue why did Eedo do this. One day out of no where he said "we are changing it" and they did. There was no public disclosure about it. I still use Turkey.

[u/zakarijas → u/AFKE0]

In Lithuanian it's called Turkija which sounds exactly like Turkiye

[u/freeturk51 → u/ilovemangos3]

Personally, I hate "Turkiye" in English. It is just a fucking islamic dictator creating new headlines with the hopes of changing the topic to a non-issue, while distracting people from the actual issues of the country

[u/RandomRavenboi → u/freeturk51]

creating new headlines with the hopes of changing the topic to a non-issue, while distracting people from the actual issues of the country

Sounds very familiar, even here.

[u/freeturk51 → u/RandomRavenboi]

Feels really balkan, eh?

[u/watergosploosh → u/ilovemangos3]

People using turkiye in english is more cringe for me. If someone is insisting on Turkiye, they are erdo supporter and thus, ignore them.

[u/ilovemangos3 → u/[deleted]]

well there hasn’t been a move to rename the country of greece in english. If we suddenly were supposed to call it ellada then it would be a valid question

[u/Motor_Ad6523 → u/ilovemangos3]

Normally, it shouldn't bother us, but it does. Many people use it in a humorous way. And everyone who makes these jokes thinks they're so clever. Many of our cities have Greek or Latin names, so this doesn't bother anyone. Turkish has many foreign words, and that doesn't bother anyone. But the word "Turkey" bothers many of us. It's not nice to openly mock something we consider sacred.

[u/psychopath_daisy → u/AFKE0]

Exploding my head

[u/Motor_Ad6523]

When dinosaurs lived, Anatolia and the Balkans were underwater.

[u/MatijaReddit_CG → u/Motor_Ad6523]

God couldn't let those two exist at the same time.

[u/Motor_Ad6523 → u/MatijaReddit_CG]

Two kings cannot fit into the same world at the same time.

[u/Mesenterium → u/Motor_Ad6523]

So finding marine reptile bones should be at least plausible

[u/Ladz95]

We waged war with dinosaurs hence the free teritory

[u/Pjeter_Bogdani → u/Ladz95]

Gotta say, Partizans did a great job.

[u/ivanivanovivanov]

Could be an old map, there are dinosaur fossils discovered in Bulgaria in the last several decades.

But yeah, it's probably lack of funding for digs. Just few days ago they discovered a gravesite from a famous ancient settlement and they commented how the majority is still underground and it would take years to explore. Archaeologists are still discovering ancient and medieval stuff, but they just don't have the money to do it properly and it's very slow. And paleontologists probably have 0.1% of their funding.

[u/Suspicious-Echo-592 → u/ivanivanovivanov]

I also thought about that but i think the comments about how we were under the water are better explanation. Balkans and Anatolia have best preserved digs of early human settlements not just in Europe but in the whole world.

[u/PlamenIB]

I believe we were under water at that time

[u/Ikcenhonorem]

They emigrated to the West for higher salaries.

Actually most of Balkans was sea then.

[u/MithridatesVI_]

I thought Tirëk Pasha was Turkish

[u/eskasy]

CIA couldnt plant any so-called fossils in stronk balkan province.

[u/MerTheGamer]

I don't know about Balkans but I very well remember learning in my high school geography class that Anatolia is a relatively young piece of land.

[u/k0mnr]

It's because we let things in the ground, as we don't want to gave any vampire come-back. Pff... such a simple question.

[u/kotrogeor]

This is innacurate I think. I definitely remember seeing a fossil that was from Crete.

[u/SuperMarioMiner]

they were never here.... and if they were... they deserved it

[u/MaintenanceReady2533]

We eat the bones too

[u/Substratas]

We ARE the dinosaurs.

[u/BeatnologicalMNE]

Because every Balkan nation thinks they are here way, way before dinosaurs. Just ask Serbians, Albanians, even Croatians. It's probably same for everyone else. :P

[u/GTamightypirate]

google panonian sea.

[u/Got2InfoSec4MoneyLOL]

Dunno about dinos, but we ve found skulls/fossils of some sort of elephantoid living here million years ago. These were also found by ancients and they attributed the large trunk whole in the skull to cyclopses 😎

[u/No-Comparison5700]

Fun fact, theres a dinosaur species named after the Albanian people 😅 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxes

[u/AchilleasM1982]

People have lived and changed these lands with higher intensity and for more thousands of years than the "new world".

[u/long-legged-lumox]

Expert geologists, were indonesia and the middle bit of africa also underwater like the balkans?

Greenland I assume is riddled with them once we sort out the ice with global warming.

[u/artist-05]

Still living dinosaurs here.

[u/elmanager]

In Bulgaria I know only for one found in Asenovgrad.

[u/OpenCardiologist2587]

Fascinating nothing has been found in southeast asian islands.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Sir903]

Serbia has mammoth nicknamed Vika.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/20/mammoth-field-serbia-kostolac-mine

[u/frn8]

They are living in the Balkans right now

[u/OswGeoM]

Probably because they weren't formed yet but idk

[u/ballz3399]

because of ottomans ottomans sold whole dinosaurs