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When is a fossil a fossil?

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07bradleys

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Excellent question! There's no definitive way of saying "this is a fossil"; so paleontologists usually pick the arbitary age of 10,000 years - so if remains are more than 10,000 years old, they are called a fossil.

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16y ago

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