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What conditions were needed to turn the plants and animals into fossils?
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∙ 15y ago
near immediate plastering by mud and afterwards a period of drought and even then, many fossils are destroyed by nature and are generally very fragile
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What led hooke to argue that fossils had once been living organisms?
hooke published his conclusion that fossils are remains of plants and animals .
What part of the fossil is found?
Harder parts of organisms become fossils. For example vasculature in plants and bones of animals are best preserves in the fossils.
Why are more fossils not found?
Asking why there are more animal fossils presupposes that there are more animal fossils than plant fossils. This is not the necessarily case. Plant fossils are actually much more common than animal fossils. If you consider the distribution of biomass in modern ecosystems, it is clear that plants are the dominant kingdom (e.g if you walk into a rainforest, you see hundreds of trees, but few large animals). This distribution is a necessity for any functioning ecosystem because the plants are primary producers (other species need them for survival).Lignite, a low grade coal, is composed entirely of semi-compacted plant fossils. It is so common that it is often burned for use as fuel.This being said, plants also decay faster than animals given the same initial conditions (they do not typically have hard parts like bones), so the percentage of plants that are fossilized should be less than the percentage of macroscopic animals. Since plants so greatly outnumber animals, however, this does not make fossil animals more common.Addendum:It matters too whether one is discussing microfossils or fossils large enough to see or whole fossils or merely a fossilized leaf. See related questions.Plants have softer bodys parts than animals
What are fossils and what do they tell us about the process of evolution?
Fossil the dead remains of plants and animals that lived in the past is know as fossil.
What kind of organisms do the earliest fossils represent?
The earliest fossils represent plants.
Why do plants and animals do not become fossils?
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
Are fern fossils considered animals?
Fern fossils come from ferns. Ferns are plants, not animals. Hence, fern fossils are plants, not animals.
Why do most plants and animals do not become fossils?
why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
What conditions are necessary for animals and plants to become fossils?
The animal or plants needs to be covered in a sedimentary silt or mud, for a very long time.
What is the difference between fossils and fossils fuels?
Fossils are the remains of plants and animals, and fossil fuels are decomposed plants and animals that form coal, oil, and natural gas.
How many plants and animals form fossils?
Only a small amount of plants and animals die and end up under the certain conditions needed to actually format a successful fossil. This is the most updated information. Scientists haven't yet discovered all fossils, do you might call this an estimate or guess. However, as said before, this is the most updated information that scientists have available due to lack of full discovery.
What two things can be made into fossils?
Plants and animals
Can some plants and animals become fossils?
yes!
What are remains of plants and animals that were buried very quickly in sediment during floods?
fossils
What kingdom is fossils?
Fossils can be any Kingdom. We have found fossils of plants, worms, animals plus many others.
What are traces of plants or animals that have preserved in rock?
Fossils is the word
What principle do scientists follow in studying ancient climates?
in studying ancient climates, scientists follow an important principle: if plants or animals today need certain conditions to live, then similar plants and animals in the past needed those conditions.
