GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants and other organisms from the remote past.

Detailed explanation-2: -A preserved fossil, also known as a “true form fossil, ” is one that remains intact, or nearly intact, because of the method in which it was fossilized.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The correct answer is Paleontology.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fossils are the remains or traces of ancient life that have been preserved by natural processes. Examples of fossil include shells, bones, stone imprints of animals or microbes, exoskeletons, objects preserved in amber, petrified wood, coal, hair, oil, and DNA remnants.