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Why do fossils only show the bones and teeth of the dead animal?
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Because soft tissues, organs, skin and muscle doesn't turn into fossils.
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Define fossils and explain how fossil are made?
Fossils are depositions of dead animal imprints and/or bones. When an animal or plant dies, its skin rots away, leaving behind the bone or imprint.
Do animal age can be find by counting its teeth?
If they have 34 teeth. Your animal is near dead. Should it have 66 - it needs to be dead.
Will lye or lime destroy dead animal bones?
yess it does eat your bones and also turnes ur skin pinkk(:
What are the fosslis?
The remains of an animal. -------------------------- Fossils are the remains of a dead plant or animal that have been preserved for a long time.
Why do some dead animals not become fossils?
The vast majority of dead animals are not fossilised. For something to become a fossil it has to die under very special circumstances. If an animal living in a forest dies it will quickly be absorbed by the other life around it, insects, fungi, bacteria all play their part in recycling the energy provided by the dead animal. The same happens on the plains and under the seas, though the organisms doing the recycling will be different.
What are bones made of and what role do they play?
Bones in a living or recently dead creatures are mostly made of calcium. Ancient bones (fossils) are made of stone. The calcium has migrated out and been replaced by sediments that become stone.
How could a whole animal become a fossil?
Generally fossils are formed when plants or animals die (or are trapped) and covered with a layer of mud. This not only protects the dead animal carcass (or plant) from scavengers that may have been lurking nearby, but also retards decomposition. This applies not only to animals, but also fish, moluscs and some insects (where the shells are preserved). As the layers of sediment (or mud) are layered on top of the dead body the flesh decomposes (in the case of plants the soft tissue). Over time dissolved minerals in the soil surrounding and above the now skeleton penetrate the bones of the animal and replace the calcium of the bones, this leaves a mineral imprint of the bone, which is now a considered a fossil. In the case of plants, the imprint of the leaf is left in the surrounding stone. This process happens over millions of years.
What are the four steps to analyzing fossils?
Fossil evidence can be interpreted in a multitude of ways. The posture and walking speed of a dead animal can be deduced from a fossilized set of footsteps while fossilized bones and scales can give insight to the animal's internal structure.
What was used before false teeth?
if people could afford it they wold have animal teeth, other human teeth from people who were already dead, or ocassionally wood
Plant and animal remains and other dead matter are collectvely called?
Detritus. It's what the decomposers feed on/eat/
What are fossils are used for?
Animals or people in the pastPlants can also produce fossils; the general answer is, fossils are the remains of ancient organisms.They are dead plants and animals thathave been traped for millions of years. Humans are animals too.
Fossils are found mainly in- - - rock?
Limestone and sandstone. The rock needs to be one that's formed from sedimentation around the dead animal.
