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    Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. They form when the hard parts of organisms, like bones, teeth, or bark, become buried over millions of years and replace with stone. Fossils provide clues about past life on Earth, showing what organisms existed before humans. Early fossils are of sea creatures with shells or bones, while later fossils include the first land plants and animals like dinosaurs and birds that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

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    Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. They form when the hard parts of organisms, like bones, teeth, or bark, become buried over millions of years and replace with stone. Fossils provide clues about past life on Earth, showing what organisms existed before humans. Early fossils are of sea creatures with shells or bones, while later fossils include the first land plants and animals like dinosaurs and birds that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

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    Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. They form when the hard parts of organisms, like bones, teeth, or bark, become buried over millions of years and replace with stone. Fossils provide clues about past life on Earth, showing what organisms existed before humans. Early fossils are of sea creatures with shells or bones, while later fossils include the first land plants and animals like dinosaurs and birds that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

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    Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. They form when the hard parts of organisms, like bones, teeth, or bark, become buried over millions of years and replace with stone. Fossils provide clues about past life on Earth, showing what organisms existed before humans. Early fossils are of sea creatures with shells or bones, while later fossils include the first land plants and animals like dinosaurs and birds that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

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    Fossils provide information about plants and animals that lived in the past. They are formed when the hard parts of organisms are buried and slowly turn to stone over millions of years.

    Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived a long time ago. They are usually found in rock or stone. Fossils form when the hard parts of organisms are buried and slowly replaced with minerals from the surrounding rock over millions of years.

    Animals, plants, nests, eggs, footprints and even animal droppings can become fossils if their hard parts are buried before fully decomposing.

    Fossils

    What are Fossils?


    Fossils are the remains or marks of plants
    and animals that lived a very long time
    ago. They are usually found in rock and
    stone.
    Fossils are important because they tell us
    a story about things that lived on the earth
    before us.

    What Things Become Fossils?


    Animals and plants become fossils.
    So do nests, eggs, footprints and even
    animal droppings!

    How are Fossils Made?


    Fossils are made from the hard parts of
    plants and animals, such as:
    - bark, seed cases, bones and teeth.
    These parts do not easily rot away after
    plants and animals die.
    Fossils take millions of
    years to form.

    Turning to Stone
    For example:
    - A starfish dies.
    - The soft parts of its body rot away quickly.
    - The harder parts slowly get covered by mud.
    - After millions of years, the starfish is deep in the ground.
    - The mud around it is crushed by the land on top and
    turned to stone.
    - So are the remains of the starfish.
    - Millions of years later, the stone gets worn away and the
    fossil can be seen.

    How Fossils are Formed

    From the Sea


    The first creatures on the earth lived in the
    sea.
    Some sea creatures made good fossils
    because they had hard shells and hard
    bones.
    Trilobite Fossil

    Horseshoe Crab Fossil


    Fish Fossil

    Plants
    At first, there were only
    living things in the sea.
    Slowly, over millions of
    years, plants began to grow
    on the land.
    Some of these plants have
    left fossils in the rock.

    Pine Cone Fossil

    Animals

    Animal fossils are often bones that have been turned to rock. Sometimes
    part of the flesh is preserved, but most of the time only skeletons remain.

    Because of this, it is more difficult to find fossils of invertebrates.


    (Invertebrates are animals that dont have bones.)

    We have discovered several types of animal fossils: bones, skin, teeth,


    claws, eggs, nests, muscles, and organs.

    We have also found lots of fossils of footprints, which tell us how much
    animals and dinosaurs weighed and how they might have walked.

    When Did They Live?


    First Fish 570 million years ago.
    First plants on land 440 million
    years ago.
    First insects and amphibians 400
    million years ago.
    First reptiles 360 million years ago.
    First dinosaurs 245 million years
    ago.
    First birds 210 million years ago.

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