What can fossils reveal about an organism?

Answer 1

Not much, they're pretty quiet.

Answer 2

Fossils can reveal an incredible amount of information. Fossils show us what kinds of organisms lived in what places and when they lived there. Fossilized leaves can tell us the average temperature of an area (the higher the ratio of serrated leaves to leaves with an even edge, the colder the average temperature). Thanks to fossils, there is hard evidence for the theory of plate tectonics (that continents drift slowly over time).

We can learn things about a specific organism, too. For example, the teeth of an animal can tell us what it probably ate, the bones from limbs tell us how it moved and even how quickly.

Fossils also can show us how organisms evolved over time.

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the immense amount of knowledge that has been gained by studying fossils.

Answer 3

Fossils tell a lot about animals that lived long ago, especially different species that may not exist today. For example, fossils have told scientists much about dinosaurs' feeding habits, habitat locations, and bone structures.

Answer 4

Fossils can reveal a huge variety of things about an organism. Here are just a few:

1. Where a fossil was found tells us where the organism lived. What layer of rock or sediment it was found in tells us how old it is.

2. We can find out what the organism is similar and/or related to by comparing it with other organisms.

3. We can find out an organism's size and what it looked like.

4. In the case of animals, we can determine diet by the teeth, jaws, and sometimes remnants of food in the stomach that was also fossilized.