When an organism disappears from Earth, it is called extinction. Extinction occurs when a species can no longer be found anywhere on the planet, often due to environmental changes, habitat destruction, over-hunting, or other factors that make it impossible for the species to survive.
The main reason is that many different organisms went extinct along with the dinosaurs, both on land and in the sea. In all, about 65% of all species on Earth went extinct. Furthermore, many groups of organism disappear from the fossil record very suddenly. This evidence suggests that a cataclysmic event devastated numerous ecosystems around the world.
All paleontologists,(and other people), notice that on every continent, there were similar fossils. Obviously, not all prehistoric/Precambrian organisms could swim all the way across oceans, so the continents had to have moved. This proved Wegener's hypothesis(some really old scientist i learned about in science class)which was continental drift.
Paleontologists use fossils to determine the relative ages of rocks. Due to evolution the fossil assemblage in rocks changes over time and the different assemblages can therfore be used to place the rocks in which an assemblage is found in its place in the evolutionary sequence.
Scientists can learn about extinction by studying fossils because fossils provide physical evidence of organisms that lived in the past, including those that have gone extinct. By examining the distribution and characteristics of these fossils, scientists can piece together the timing and causes of extinction events. Additionally, studying fossils can reveal patterns of extinction across different species and ecosystems, helping scientists understand the impact of environmental changes on biodiversity.
The paleontologists who found them named them.
When an organism disappears from Earth, it is called extinction. Extinction occurs when a species can no longer be found anywhere on the planet, often due to environmental changes, habitat destruction, over-hunting, or other factors that make it impossible for the species to survive.
Paleontologists have found fossils of Brachiosaurus in North America and Africa.
When mammoth remains are found, they are usually turned over to paleontologists. Paleontologists preserve them in controlled environments at natural history museums.
Australopithecus is a genus of extinct hominids. Evidence of these creatures was first found in eastern Africa. Paleontologists believe that Australopithecus was the first genus in the line of human evolution to exhibit lengthened neurons in the brain with increased ability.
When we see that there are fossils found in a certain geological layer, which are evidence that a certain species existed at that time, and then in the next geological stratum we no longer find those fossils, and there is no evidence that the species which used to exist still exists, we infer that the species became extinct. If a whole lot of species become extinct at approximately the same time, we call that an extinction event, such as the KT extinction.
It's called the fossil record.
Yes, there is strong phylogenetic evidence suggesting that all dromaeosaurids possessed them. This evidence comes from phylogenetic bracketing, which allows paleontologists to infer traits that exist in a clade based on the existence of that trait in a more basal form. In other words, evidence of raptors having feathers has been found in the bones themselves as well as fossil prints.
extinction
It was to hot for rocks to form
There are a lot of pieces of evidence that help show that the earth is not the same as it was, but here are two: Firstly, the evidence of fossils that Paleontologists had found, which may indicate that there were some animals and plants that lived in that time, but do not exist today. Secondly, the evidence of the jigsaw puzzle, which seemed to fit between Africa and south America, but today it does not exists, therefore that profess that there was a big change on earth.
once paleontologists have found a fossil, they take it back to their computers to enter what they have found. they then send it to a lab to have it put away with special liquid coats to help preserve the bone.