EARTH SCIENCE
FOSSILS
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Question
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A dead animal has become fossilized.
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There is no more of a species left.
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Permineralization has occured within the fossil.
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The fossil has become petrified.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most simply, any species that cannot survive and reproduce in its environment and cannot move to a new environment where it can do so, dies out and becomes extinct.
Detailed explanation-2: -Extinctions happen when a species dies out from cataclysmic events, evolutionary problems, or human interference.
Detailed explanation-3: -no longer in existence; having ended or died out: extinct pre-Colombian societies. no longer in use; obsolete: an extinct custom.
Detailed explanation-4: -Extinct. This IUCN category means a species is “globally extinct, ” or “gone everywhere, ” Beissinger says, a determination made after time and exhaustive searches in their habitat. Hunting and habitat loss likely wiped out the colorful Carolina parakeet, which was once abundant in the U.S. and is now officially extinct.
Detailed explanation-5: -The term extinct refers to an animal or plant species when there are no more individuals of that species alive anywhere in the world-the species has died out.