Can Humans Become Fossils?

It is not very easy for a person to become a fossil. This is because we are very large and also because humans have an internal skeleton. The outer casing of the body, our skin, muscles, tendons etc would not fossilise, so it the only possibility is for the skeleton to become a fossil (and teeth). The best location to become a fossil would be actually under the sea bed, but it is difficult for humans to get there. Even if buried at sea, it would be unlikely that we would make it all the way down to just under the sea bed since we would get eaten en route!
It would take at least 200,000 years to become a fossil and by this time it is likely that the conditions would have changed anyway and no doubt the sea bed would have been disturbed or there would have been some kind of seismic shift and the skeleton would have been disturbed.

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