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A fossil is the remains or traces of an animal, plant or any organism which lived in the distant past. They give us information on how different life-forms existed then, what the climate was like, how the atmosphere differed from the present time and where they lived in relation to other parts of the world.

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fossiles are important because they help us learn how animals that are extinct (like dinosors). They can also help us with many clues as to how dinosours became extinct, and what they looked like.

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