It is known as a fossil.
Fossil.
This is usually only available through some type of fossil, unless the creature is still living and is observed directly.
Any leftover of a living creature or living thing in any past time. It could be a minute in the past, a decade, or as long as time goes.By:Donny Heitler
No they can't kill a living creature.
Probably a trace fossil; evidences of an organisms existence, without the body. Trace fossils include footprints, feces, burrow marks, and chemical signatures.
A trace fossil can be anything from a coprolite (faeces) to a footprint. It is anything which proves the creature's existence without being the actual creature itself. For example, an ammonite shell is proof of its individual existence, but its faeces give us little information about its appearance. A fossil could be a cast, mold, or true form fossil.
All fossils are not the actual substance of the living creature but merely minerals that have collected in the hole the living creature left behind when its substance rotted away. Now when you have a 'fossil' in the shape of a complex skeleton its pretty easy to say that it came from a once living thing. But when you have a linear collection of crystals it isn't certain that it came from a once living thing or merely from a purely geological process. Also the martial 'fossil' is ten times smaller than the smallest fossil found on earth - a suspicious incongruity.
the first living creature in the dictionary is an aardvark
Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that have been turned to stone.
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The largest and heaviest living creature on earth is the blue whale.