“We excavate the Earth thousands of times a day.”

Looks out window…missed a spot

That depends on the definition of “real.” By any definition, dinosaurs were real, however.

Paleontologists typically do not find fossils either (or at least not the initial dig sites), they just safely extract them out of the ground after they got reported. It’s just some random ass people who find them, often in quarries or construction sties, but sometimes also just some playing kids who stumble upon them.