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Most animals don't become fossils, they'll just rot and fall apart. It takes real special conditions for a body to be preserved.
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Most animals do not become fossils because the conditions for fossilization are rare. Fossilization typically occurs when an animal is quickly buried in sediment and undergoes a process called mineralization, where minerals replace the organic material. Many animals decay or are consumed by scavengers before this process can occur. Only a small fraction of all organisms that have lived on Earth are preserved as fossils.
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Did every ancient animal create a fossil?
No. Most animals don't become dinosaurs because they decay or are eaten before they are buried.
What fossil occurs in the most land masses?
animals
Do most animals and plants that once lived on Earth have left fossil evidence?
yea most plants and animals do leave behind fossils. scientists have found many of them from the pre-historic eras.
Why do most living tihngs not leave a fossil?
because a fossil is created from something that hardened while the animal was dead in it. if you leave a corps out in the open then most of it will be eaten, but if that same corps was covered in some oil or sap then it could potentially become a fossil after about a miilion yeaRS
What would be better to become a fossil a fish or a mouse?
The fish will become a fossil because of the fish bones on his back.
Which part of an animals body can become a fossil?
Bones and feathers.
How does animals become fossil fuel?
someone please answer this question
Did every ancient animal create a fossil?
No. Most animals don't become dinosaurs because they decay or are eaten before they are buried.
What is the most likely reason animals will not become fossils?
it takes millions of years to get a fossil. so you will need to wait 1,000,000 years to get that. no one can get a fossil, but only is you are like 1,050,000 years old. :)
What fossil occurs in the most land masses?
animals
How did plants and animals that make up fossil fuels get their energy?
Most animals that became fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) were tiny plankton in the oceans. Coal was made from larger vegetation and possibly animals like archosaurs, the reptile ancestors of the dinosaurs.
1 Hard parts of plants and animals that have become part of a rock layer are known as?
Fossil
Do all organisms become fossil fuels?
Well its most likely everything will become fossil fuel from a human carcass,dog,cow and bugs.
What is the fossil that tells an animals activities?
Trace Fossil
Why do most plants and animals do not become fossils?
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
Which fossil are most common in the rock that is 500 million years old?
bones structures of animals
Where do fossil fule come from?
fossil fuels are from prehistoric plant and animals
