Fossils
This category is for questions about the bones, fragments, imprints, and other remainders from a different time. The questions and answer you will find here are history set in stone -- our past, immortalized in solid rock. You will also be able to find questions pertaining to the locations of these fossils, how you might identify them, and how they were formed.
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AdamsfamilyyoThe eastern United States is primarily composed of marine deposits from the Paleozoic, meaning that most fossils are of fish,...
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Freezing, Amber,Tar seeps,Casts and moldsPetrification
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Jellyfish are Mostly water so they decompose extremely easily. Its like trying to fossilize soggy jello. Plus they live in open...
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No, Index fossils are used to date certain rock layers where the fossil is found. So it's usefull when you can find a certain...
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A common variety of cross bedding. Generally at a relatively low angle it resembles scooped grooves. It is formed by sand dune...
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If you follow science and don't assume fossils are red herrings laid down by a creator then the evidence is very reliable indeed....
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It was found near the Badlands in Drumheller.
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water saves bonesBecause as the river erodes the soil beneath it and on the banks, the fossils that lie buried there are exposed...
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It is better for the environment because it does not release polluting gases like fossil fuels do.
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Fossil records back up evolution by showing the ancestors of extant species. If species didn't evolve, the fossils would be of...
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Fossils are commonly found in limestone, sandstone and shale.
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Because they changed slowly over time :D
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The most widely-held view is that the Cheetah evolved in North America. Only a mutual evolutionary race would be likely to create...
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Metamorphic rocks don't contain fossils. You may find a few distorted fossils in slate but these are only there because some...
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layer in soil and radioactivity measure
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Strictly speaking, all value is subjective. Something is worth what someone will pay for it. The only thing you can say is worth...
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There are three basic terms you need to know: Vestigial structures, homologous structures, and transitional fossils. These three...
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You Can Resurrect It On, By Game: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Fire Red And Leaf Green: Cinnabar Laboratory, Gold, Silver, Crystal,...
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If you've seen Jurrasic Park, you would know it's amber.
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Igneous rock is cooled Magma. Organic material is vaporized at that heat. Fossils are readily fornd in sedimentary rock where the...
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The oldest fossils in the world are found in western Australia and are those of primitive bacteria. They are about 3.5 billion...
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Fossils will be found almost exclusively in sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary rocks are formed by the compression and cementation of...
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Mountains are not permanent, the rocks which form mountain belts such as the Himalayas, Alps, Rockies and Andes were once below...
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A fossil is any evidence of ancient life that is preserved in stone or other material. Fossils can include molds, casts,...
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Eda or Ida was the first Mammal thought to evolve on Earth The fossil of Eda was found in Messel, Germany and is said to be 47...
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After getting the first fossil talk to the fossil maniac who lives west from fallarbor town after you speak to him go back to the...
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Carbon dating or by the layers of rock the fossil is found in.Carbon dating: Takes a piece, and looks for carbon 14. Based on the...
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Paleontologists very rarely proactively did to find fossils, they usually look for fossils that have washed out of the rocks...
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Rarely a fossil may appear in metamorphic or igneous rock, but the vast majority of fossil evidence presents itself in...
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Paleontologists study fossils and ancient life, including, but not limited to, dinosaurs. A Paleobotanist studies plant fossils. ...
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There are multiple methods of fossilization, but fossils generally are formed by rapid burial of organisms or traces of organisms...
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The most extensive use of paperboard is to make shipping containers, cartons, and packaging. U.S. paper-board producers...
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What do you mean by "partially evolved"? Since evolution is an ongoing process, any existing species will always be in a state...
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AnswerToo many people to count. This year, Robert Taylor found a nearly complete skeleton of a woolly mammoth in Siberia.There a...
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Hawaii is a hotspot, meaning it was formed by erupting volcanoes. When the volcanoes erupted the fossils either melted or became...
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yes. and feces, and gizzard stone piles, and petroleum, and leaf/feather impressions, etc. All fossils.
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Most fossils are formed from a mould/cast, which are essentially the same thing. It consists of a hollow being filled with a...
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AnswerNo, they can't. None of the surviving dinosaur eggs (and there are a lot of them) have any DNA left inside. Too much time...
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When an animal or plant dies its remains usually rot away to nothing. Sometimes though, when the conditions are just right and...
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You can purchase authentic Fossil watches at a variety of places. Many retailers, such as Kohl's, Sears, Macy's and JcPenney,...
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Because the bones of the fish makes the fossil. The Flesh rots away leaving the bone.Then sedimentry rock will pile up on top of...
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Most fossils are preserved plant or animal bodies living in or near water. There are no animals or plants which can live in...
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Yes you can find fossils in San Diego. You are more likely to find them on the outer edges of town. More than likely start in the...
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A typhoon is formed in earth also the white dot in the middle is called the eye a little fact!
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South America
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Yes they are, they are also auctioned at 2,000 for 1 foot print
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It depends on what kind of fossils. You may find micro fossils in metmorphosed sediments such as Gunflint Chert from pre-Cambrian...
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Fossils -- (i) provide a concrete 'documentary' proof of life in the respective periods. (ii) They provide us a convincing clue...
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fossils are formed by dead animal or plants organic matter, and things such as sediments
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Most commonly Carbon 14.
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No. Dragons are mythical beasts dreamt up by writers of fiction. There are no dragons and there never were dragons.
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There are many thousands of known species of trilobite fossils found worldwide. Trilobites are considered to be good index...
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Fossils abound in sedimentary rock, you are in fact very likely to find them there.
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Radiometric dating
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because we need fossil fuels for every thing tv iron and any electrical
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u suck. uh no its actually chicken butt
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You get Armargo fossils at Mt.Lavaflow if you unlocked that dig site already
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One form of fossil forms when an organism dies and its body is covered by layers of sediment. As time passes, the organism...
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Because they like how they look and like to collect them.
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Animal and plant fossils develop when upon death they are rather quickly covered in water or sediment or sand which helps prevent...
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Carbon dating. add. Carbon dating has a ceiling of about 60 000 years, which is pretty young for rocks. The half-life of 14C is...
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A fossil is the mineral formation left as slowly decaying matter, such as bones or shells, is replaced with mineral deposits, or...
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It is done by Carbon dating. Carbon is the basic basic building block of life and has an amazing memory. Rays of the Sun which...
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PhylogenyPhylogeny is a noun that means the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms. It is used today to...
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It is used by practitioners of Chinese medicine to treat colds, lung infections, and problems in the internal organs. It is also...
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Fossils are the remains of living things (plants, animals, people), not of things that were made. Artifacts are the remains of...
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All rocks contain some radioactive heavy nuclei, as time passes the constantly 'break' into smaller nuclei by a process called...
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because they were covered by oceans millions of years ago.
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It is always younger because for it to "intrude" the rocks it intrudes into had to be there first.
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Trace fossils: fossils like burrows, tracks,and holes.Original remains: parts of body.
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Fossils are used by scientists to determine the where, what, why, when, and how of ancient organisms. Answering these questions...
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The oldest fossils found are considered to be from the late Archean period which ended 2500 million years ago. By contrast, the...
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lol I'm doing science homework when i should be sleeping. I don't know, what is that? lol. Ill give you an answer to match your...
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Scientists who study fossils are known as paleontologists.
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Fossils give us a lot of information about species which used to exist on Earth but which are now extinct. With this information...
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the tectonic plates keep moving all the time. the Himalayas were once not a mountain range but when India crashed with Asia the...
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Radioisotopes The major element in anything living or dead is Carbon, C. Carbon usually exists as the isotope C12 meaning that...
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There are many fossils from the Pre-Cambrian but most are microscopic, single celled organisms. Later life forms became larger...
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fossiles indicate how the earth ha changed. the older stuff is at the bottom, and the newer stuff is at the top. over time the...
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Natural resources of South America are coffee beans, cocoa beans, bananas, timber, rubber, gold, bauxite, spices, and salt.
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The radiometric dating method for organic matter that most people know about is carbon dating, and this method is limited to...
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Fossils are the remains of dinosaurs, prehistoric plants and other prehistoric creatures which lived millions of years ago....
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Australopithecus afarenis lived about 3.5 million years ago.
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Dinosaur fossils found in Alaska include Pachycephalosaurus, Albertosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Ankylosaur (unknown genus),...
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"Glossopteris (Greek glossa, meaning "tongue", because the leaves were tongue-shaped) is the largest and best-known genus of the...
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get two copies of the game, or to be clever breed it with a ditto (from firered n leafgreen) and trade the baby with some one for...
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Foram is short for Foraminifera. Forams are ameboid protists that form a shell (or test) typically less than 1mm in diameter from...
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The ripples do not form in the rocks, they form in soft, sandy sediment usually in water. The sediments are preserved after they...
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