What We Know about fossils

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What I know:

They are remaining bits of creatures from millions of years ago

They are formed by rocks

They are found by paleontologists

How they are formed:

They are formed when a dinosaur dies and the creatures around it eat it's flesh until it is all bones

What I know

Scientist who locate fossils are called Paleontologist

Fossils are remaining bits of extinct animals from millions of years ago.

Fossils can be used as old rocks.

The bone will start to flush away creating a mold in the dirt for rocks to go into it making it stay in its shape

Fossils can be formed in different ways

Animals lived millions ago

A fossil is the preserved remains or trace of dead animals

How do we know when these fossils were alive

They are old

The people who find fossils are called paleontologist

Insect fossils are created by a sap on trees called amber, when insects fly into it it holds the insect in the same shape when it ran into the amber

Did you know plants can also become fossils.

Questions:

How do paleontologists find the fossils?

How do they know how old a rock is?

When dinosaurs drown under the sea, the skin from it starts to come off leaving it’s skeleton behind.

How do they tell how the world looked like with the fossils?

Are there fossils everywhere?

How do they know how old a fossil is?

How hard is a fossil?

How do they know the locations?

Are fossils weak?

Insects from millions of years ago fly into trees and gets stuck into something called amber.

Fossils are the stone of animal or plant that were once alive

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Why do people find fossils?

Are they rare?

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They can be small or big

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Fossils are the stone of animal or plant that were once alive

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How did people find out the names of the dinosaur?

They were bigger then the animal in our days

Questions:

Why do paleonlogist find fossils?

How do paleonlogist know how old rocks are?

How are fossils found?

How are the animals fossil formed into the rocks

Fossils are everywhere

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Are there paleonlogist still around?

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