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The fossil record tells us:

- That there lived different types of lifeforms in the past than today.

- That life changes over time.

- That life shows diverging progressions of morphological traits over deep time.

- That past life adhered to the same nested hierarchies we also find in extant life.

The above are a number of findings based on the fossil record as a whole. There are many more findings that zoologists are able to determine based on the morphological features of specific lifeforms.

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