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How do scientists learn about extinct animals?
Through the science of archiology. They dig up the bones and other remains of animals, reassemble them kinda like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle, and study the skeletal sructure of the animal. This gives a lot of general information. They then study individual parts of the skeleton to learn some more detailed things. The teeth for instance will tell if they were an herbavore (with flat grinding teeth), a carnavor (with sharp cutting teeth), or an omnivor, with a combination of types of teeth (like humans have)
Animals with sharp teeth?
If you are asking to name a few animals with sharp teeth then here are a few: -sharks -crocodiles -Wolves -piranha If you are asking what is the significance of animals having sharp teeth then the significance is that you can tell what the animal's diet is. If their teeth are sharp then that means they need their teeth to bite through skin and chew which usually means the animal is a carnivore.
How could fossils help tell you weather from the past?
If you find fossil plants and animals that lived in hot, wet areas then you know the weather was hot and wet. This is how you tell what the weather was probably like in the past.
Why do people want to know about fossils?
People want to know about fossils because fossils are history and tell us about history, and a lot of people find history fascinating.
Why are fossils important?
Fossils are important because they tell us about continental drift which occurs every year.
What can you tell about the animals that lived long ago?
There are a lot of things you can tell form animals that lived long ago. Fossils give us many atributes to that animal. like the shape teeth what they ate and many other things
If you found ocean fish fossils below land animals fossils what would that tell you?
It would tell you that an ocean once existed there and then withdrew.
What can rock fossils and original remains show about earths past?
it can show the futur
Why are fossils so important?
Fossils are important to the humans because they help us learn about animals that are extinct (like dinosours). They can also help us with many clues as to how dinosours became extinct, and what they looked like.
Fossils cannot tell about food eaten by a dinosaur?
Actually they can. By the type of their teeth. Like for instance, if the teeth is sharp, it's a carnivore.
Around how many animals have gone extinct?
Extinction of animals (or rather species) happens all the time and has been going on for hundreds of millions of years. All the fossils we find in the rocks are species that are now extinct. It is therefore impossible to tell you just how many animals have gone extinct. However, you question may have been prompted by concerns for our planet and its ecosystem today and you may therefore be asking How many animals have gone extinct because of man's activities? This a good question, unfortunately I don't know the answer to this so I will ask it. (The answer is in the related question below)
What do fossils tell us about Kansas geologic past?
they tell us that past animals were once on and lived in kansas. they tell us that past animals were once on and lived in kansas.
How do fossils help archaeologists and historians?
Because they tell them what sort of animals where around at the time.
Most of what scientific know about extinct species is based on?
Most of what scientists know about extinct species is based on the study of bones and fossils. Scientists have studied many dinosaur bones to determine what they ate and how they lived. Fossils tell what the land was like at a given time in history.
Can you tell the age of the earth from fossils?
no but you can tell the age of the fossil from the age of the rock around it, you cant tell the age of the earth from fossils is because animals with bones were didnt exist until later in the earth's "life"
How are fossils part of Alberta's identity?
Because they are a special part of Alberta and the fossils found here are one of a kind.
What extinct animals did Paleolithic man hunt as recorded in his paintings?
Based on cave paintings, modern man can tell that Paleolithic man hunted extinct animals like the saber-toothed tiger and the woolly mammoth.
