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They don't decompose at the right rate or at the right place or at the right temperature.

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The conditions were not correct for the carcass to fossilize.

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They're not all that old.

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Q: Why do very few animals become fossils after they die?
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What happens to animals that become extinct?

Animals that become extict have fossils or bones left from when they die.


Do fossils relate to living organisms?

No. Fossils are chemicals like stone that have replaced organisms after they die.


When plants and animals die and?

after millions of years they turn in to fossils flues/ oil ,and gas


When plant and animals die and?

after millions of years they turn in to fossils flues/ oil ,and gas


Do all living things that die become fossils?

No, because not all animals lived in the right environments to be able to get covered up quickly by sediment, have water turn the bones into rock, and for the sediment to get uncovered.


Where about have fossils been found in the world?

Fossils have been found nearly everywhere in the world because animals die everywhere in the world. Although most fossils that have been fond will have only been a part of it/.


What happens to animals after they die and other animals does not eat them?

Bacteria and or fungi decompose their bodies. Alternatively their bodies could be preserved in some way such as mineralization in fossils.


What are some of the effects of habitat destructions?

animals will die,plants will die,animals and plants might become extinct.


What are some of the effects of habitat destruction?

animals will die,plants will die,animals and plants might become extinct.


What do dead plants and animals become when they die?

they decompose


Is it bad for endangered animals to become endangered?

Yes it is bad for animals to be endangered. Animal's need other animals to survive. Even mosquito's need to live. Frogs would die without them. -All animals including humans are part of a very delegate food chain. when one of more disappears those animals they feed on become over run, animals that fed on the endangered species could themselves die out


What is the lantana means?

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