GEOLOGY
PALEONTOLOGY
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the bones of an organism that have turned to stone over the course of thousands of years
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the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived at least ten thousand years ago
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the original remains of animals that have been frozen, mummified, or otherwise preserved for a long period of time
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things that tells us about past
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the past. Fossils range in age from 10, 000 to 3.48 billion years old. The observation that certain fossils were associated with certain rock strata led 19th century geologists to recognize a geological timescale.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is a fossil? Fossils are the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes and rivers. Fossils also include any preserved trace of life that is typically more than 10 000 years old.
Detailed explanation-3: -fossils the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock. paleontology the scientific study of fossils.
Detailed explanation-4: -To be considered a fossil, a specimen must be more than 10, 000 years old. The oldest fossils ever found – stromatolites – are between 3.5 and 4 billion years old.
Detailed explanation-5: -Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally “having been dug up") are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past.