anything living can be come a fossil To become a fossil...an animal or plant must die in water or near enough to fall in shortly after death. The water insulates the remains from many of the elements...
anything from long ago are now fossils upstanding on how old it is.
- This results from removal of all but the carbon elements. Other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are removed.
It is the skeleton of an animal or shells pushed under rock for thousands of years and then it is a fossil.