#do we really need to throw more money at overgrown lizards? I'm telling you mammoths are where it's at

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I mean, part of the issue with resurrecting dinosaurs is just finding the right remains to resurrect from.

Most dinosaur bones are simply buried too deep to raise without significant effort in excavating them first, and even then the quality and quantity of remains can vary vastly between different dinosaur skeletons. Not much point in raising a skull and single forearm when the rest of the body is missing, and it's especially not worth the effort of mining them out of the rock to do so.

Even if you find a full dinosaur skeleton (or enough similar ones to cobble something together) the fossilization process makes raising them require absurd amounts of power if it will even work at all. Any voids on the interiors of the bones (you know, where you'd normally run the mana channels to bind the things together) will have been packed dense with minerals and petrified. In a lot of skeletons parts of the bones themselves will have eroded away and been replaced with stone. Hell, if you're especially unlucky the whole bone could've eroded away and what you thought was a skeleton is really just a fancy rock filling in where a bone used to be

Ok sure, a petrified bone is way stronger and denser than an ordinary skeleton so it's not like there's no benefit, but you can easily just graft the important bits onto a different skeleton and get the strength and damage output you want without lumbering around with tons of rock embedded in the parts of the skeleton that don't need it. Fossilized teeth are cheap and can still punch through plate armor in an ordinary jaw that fits them. Personally, I've had great success grafting mammoth tusks onto the skeletons of modern elephants. Literal tons of osseous power on a body already designed to use it, doesn't get much better than that.

If you only want something that looks like a dinosaur for intimidation or the like just build an amalgam like the rest of us. Maybe splurge for a skull if you're feeling fancy. There's just no practical reason to use full fossils out in the real world, no matter what those prissy Marrowlark grads say in their papers. Waste of grant money if you ask me.

Dear necromancers, why would you bother summoning human corpses when dinosaurs are an option