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Fossils

This category is for questions about the bones, fragments, imprints, and other remainders from a different time. The questions and answer you will find here are history set in stone -- our past, immortalized in solid rock. You will also be able to find questions pertaining to the locations of these fossils, how you might identify them, and how they were formed.

3,454 Questions

How many wallet designs does Fossil have?

Fossil produce a total of 74 different wallet designs. They produce a wide variety of wallets, and their wallet designs range from bi-folds to money clips, so their is a wallet for any one.

What substance may seep into an organisms remains and replace it's hard parts?

Any foreign substance that can enter an organism by diffusion can seep into an organism and replace its hard parts.

To be useful as an index fossil fuel spices must have existed for how long?

To be useful as an index fossil fuel, spices must have existed for about 1000 years.

Can poop fossilize?

Yes, feces can be fossilized. That is called coprolite.

What is a Most recent common ancestors?

are used to name and define clades phylogenetically.

Are older fossils more complex?

no because older fossile are more primitive animals.

Why fossils that form in sediments usually only include the hard parts of animals?

Dead animals are usually scavenged by other animals, scattering parts of their carcass to various locations. Rotting carcasses are also dismembered by the decomposition processes which remove connective tissue. For a whole animal to be preserved it must be covered quickly by the best possible sediment, under the right conditions, truly a rare occurence.

Is cotton a fossil fule?

No, cotton is a plant that is grown all over the U.S.A.

What are two ways that radiometric dating can be used to establish the age of a fossil.?

Direct testing of the fossil material itself or materials associated with it, and indirect testing of material in stratigraphic contexts that bookend the fossil (i.e. a lava flow over the top of the layer a fossil is contained in).

Is A paved parking lot a good place to look for fossils?

Not unless the stone used to pave the parking lot contained fossils.

What process will not create fossil?

A dead organism decomposes in a rainforest

Why are ocean fossils found on top of Rocky Mountains?

Obviously the soil and rocks that are now on top of the mountain were once underneath the ocean. This occurs when the ground is raised up from beneath the sea by plates colliding and raising mountains.

Which sentence from the article best supports the answer to part A?

"A recent study by University of Texas researcher Jakob Vinther and colleagues is a wonderful example of the high-tech tools many modern palaeontologists use to understand fossils."

What is plastic made out of?

cups,pens,pates,silverware,plastic bags,sandwich tubs,ext.

How the fossil record indicates a long history of changing life forms.?

The fossil record shows that different species have evolved over time. The fossil record also provides evidence of how a specific organism evolved from earlier species. The fossil record shows that organisms have become more complex over time. It also shows which organisms lived during the same time period, which have a common ancestor, and which have become extinct.

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