>>53423894>>53423899I get what you guys are trying to say but looking at it from a literary sense, they wouldn't say "we can't find fossils of these dudes" as a reference to real life fossils getting lost over time, it's far more likely that they put this line in as one of many hints to say those Pokemon were never actually there in the first place.
Fossils are not hard to come by in Poke-earth since any 12 year old can dig up multiple dino fossils in Sinnoh, we're obviously crossing the boundary between lore and gameplay but the idea is that if something COULD be found via fossil, there's no reason why it wouldn't be for the sake of story. There being no fossils or any sort of records for paradox Pokemon was an intentional choice to cast doubt on their validity.