answer:When I was a kid, we discovered a couple od good sized rocks which were a perfect place to sit in the shade of a tree and watch the creek go by. I named them The Dinosaurs, because it looked like two lizard type critters had huddled sie by side, and turned to fossils on that spot. I I was a kid, so I had no way of contacting anyone to find out if it was just my imagination, or something worth checking. I also found a rock in the creek just a few feet away which looked like a large egg. Eventually, as I learned more about fossils, I learned that only the bones survived to turn to stone, UNTIL, I saw a special on super volcanoes, where dinosaurs had been encased in ash , dieing from the poison gasses etc., and being promptly burried in ash and preserved in a stone casing. This happened even hundreds of miles away. So, I’m curious again.