The animal or plants needs to be covered in a sedimentary silt or mud, for a very long time.
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
Any internal organs. Only bones become fossils.
Animals that become extict have fossils or bones left from when they die.
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.
yes!
1000 years
Yes, just the same as fish and animals have become fossils. It may take many thousands of years.
Yes, fossils of today's plants and animals are being preserved. Fossils can form under the right conditions, such as in sedimentary rock or tar pits, and represent a snapshot of ancient life that can help scientists understand past ecosystems and evolutionary processes. However, the process of fossilization is rare and not all organisms become preserved as fossils.
They don't decompose at the right rate or at the right place or at the right temperature.
Harder parts of organisms become fossils. For example vasculature in plants and bones of animals are best preserves in the fossils.
they become trace fossils because they made the prints