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A few days ago I thought about fossils in the middle of the ocean. What kind of fossils are there in the ocean? Are there fossils there at all? What are we missing by not looking for fossils in the deep oceans? And is it worth it to do that? I want to share some of my thoughts about this topic and mainly hear your thoughts about it. So first of all I want to talk about the oceans that are deep ocean for billions of years, I think that there will be fossils there but not much because even today there is not a lot of life in the deep oceans and exploring them is extremely hard so I think finding fossils there will be nearly impossible. What I think will be more interesting is for example the middle of the Atlantic ocean, I saw assumptions that claimed that in the end of the cretaceous what is today Africa started moving away from what is today south America. If this is true what is today the middle of the ocean was once a coast that could be full of life and today could be full of fossils that show entire new habitats that we never heard about. So what do you think? How can we find fossils in the deep oceans, and will it be worth the effort? I would love to hear anything you think about generally this topic.