Fossil Fuels come from things that died during the age of fossil formation, but were unfortunate enough to fall into a place where the surrounding conditions turned them into coal or aiol, nit a museum specimen.

There are tons of uses for oil and coal besides buring them Look them up in Wikipedia and you can read about them being used in chemicals, agriculture (fertilizers) paint, medicine, and much more.

The fossil fuels are no longer fossils, there is no DNA or anything like that in them. They call them fossil fuels because they are basically derived from large quantities of prehistoric carbon based life that died and then was compressed over many millenniums inside soil, until it reduced to other forms of carbon, namely oil and coal.

Most fossil fuel is actually derived from prehistoric plant life, algae, and fungus anyways, so you wouldn’t likely find bones or anything. For example, the reason the middle east is the #1 location of oil is that hundreds of millions of years ago it was home to a vast ocean, covered in algae and plant life. That plant life died and collected at the bottom of the ocean, eventually became covered in sediment, and more sediment, etc, etc….. Fast forward to today, it’s been converted to oil.

No, they are just a byproduct of life many, many times changed.

???does seem selfish