>>41897991Honestly, I'd imagine the use of fossils as instanced items instead of one-time key items would end up being more a game abstraction than anything; how much living material could there be in a fossil of all things that'd actually end up as part of the revived Pokémon? A more realistic take would be that studying of the fossils combined with the technology we know exists to make Pokémon out of DNA strands like Mewtwo would mean that they'd be basically home free to make as many fossilmon as they want with the recorded data. That being said, I don't think they'd be wrecking environments by reintroducing temporarily invasive species, or on the opposite end sending Pokémon unsuitable for the new times to die in the wild. It's likely they'd be treated similar to starters, where distribution is closely monitored and issued, with only trainers of repute and preservation facilities being allowed to keep them. If the more general public wants to see them live, their best bet is going to be behind a glass window in a zoo.
As for survival, it'd be really interesting to see if they'd find new roles too. Survival is funnily enough like competitive, in that the shifting of threats and prey, ecosystem co-habitants and the state of the Earth itself may make them adapt in new ways completely unlike what their previous habitats were.
then again if the comparison with nature stands nothing that isn't a pterodactyl or a split-bodied crime against nature isn't going to leave much of an impact anyway lel 