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.
The dead organism's remains or traces must be preserved long enough to be recorded in rock.
For fossils to form, conditions have to be right and the animal must have bones.
yes, i know because I'm a scientist who studies fossils
Metamorphic rock can contain fossils, but since these rocks form under intense heat and pressure where stone flows something like taffy, the fossils will be highly degraded and distorted.Sedimentary rock forms when layers of silt are Why_are_you_less_likely_to_find_fossils_in_metamorphic_rock_than_sedimentary_rockon the bottom of a body of water. When conditions are right, layers form quickly and are not disturbed and little oxygen is present, dead creatures that fall on that bottom can become entombed in preserved at the layers are increasingly compressed, eventually cementing into rock.
Some fossils can and do last for billions of years.
Rocks, air, soil, gravel, snow and dead vegetation and animals :)
water saves bones Because as the river erodes the soil beneath it and on the banks, the fossils that lie buried there are exposed and wash into the river; then the suspended soil settles onto the fossils in the river bed and covers them again.
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They are under Uberpressure and heat cannot be decomposed before they are covered by rocks. Most of the time they do rot away though.
yes, i know because I'm a scientist who studies fossils
For a deceased animal to fossilize its needs to be covered in sediment right after it passes away. Sediment can included, the sea floor, lava and even sticky tar.
Dead plant and animals
to compare them to our animals today and if their related some how
The kind and numbers of fossils found in different kinds of rocks give clues about past ecosystems. Fossils give evidence that, in any ecosystem, some plants and animals survive well, and some do not.
there are none, except for dead animals!
some animals are scavengers and rely on dead animals to survive. so the answer to your question is because it has to eat SOMETHING!
Some were, some were not. Those that were will have sea fossils of plants and animals.
The kind and numbers of fossils found in different kinds of rocks give clues about past ecosystems. Fossils give evidence that, in any ecosystem, some plants and animals survive well, and some do not.
Fossils showing animals of the past display some similarity to animals of today as well as some differences. When we start at the bottom of the fossil record (where all the oldest fossils are) and work our way up through all the rock layers of the different ages in geologic time, we start to notice the changes in the fossils and how they lead up to the animals of today