Fossils

The Continental drift theory posits that the shoreline of many continents were at one time interlocked. Through tectonic movement and axis shift, the continents have drifted apart as is evidenced by similar animal fossils on differing continents.

It was found in the early 1800's.

A clam is more likely to fossilize than a jellyfish.

This is the best means of preservation of ancient materials. It happens only rarely. The animal must be continually frozen from the time of death until discovery. That limits the possibilities to cold hardy animals from the last ice age. There have been remarkable discoveries of mammoth and wooly rhinoceros found in ice from Alaska and Siberia. Specimens with flesh, skin, and hair intact have been found. Some of these finds suggest that they were flash frozen, with food still in the mouth and stomach.

There are so many well preserved fossils because there are so many fossils, some will be well preserved. In certain locations at certain times the conditions will be right for preserving living tissues.

Depends on the type of eurypterid. In short, no; we don't know enough about them to say that they are only found in certain time zones.

Sea shells are hard carbon components, thus they are ideal objects for fossilization. Many of our current disscovered fossils are in fact sea shells from the various epochs. They can tells us of the evolutionary changes in species such as mollusks.

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Fossil demonstrate organisms, geological structure or formations, that may not be present in our lifetime, due to extinction. Usually these can be classified, as a long time ago, if no documented evidence can support such an organism etc, at a specific time E.g a certain bug infossilizedtree sap, which was not present at 300ad, therefore it was formed earlier. . However, withmillennium old fossils, the age can be found through carbon dating. Carbon dating uses samples of carbon within the fossil, to determine the age of the chemical compound, and therefore the time at which the fossil was formed. Fossils come from decomposed matter, hardening around an object underground and experiencing forces and heat for thousands of years.

According to experts, the best environments to search for fossils are places near rocks or deserts. Most fossils are preserved in these areas.

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Both can be predators or herbavores. Both are different sizes and different teeth do different things.

Due to their exoskeleton preserving the bodies of insects in collections requires nothing more than drying them out after killing. They are then typically mounted using pins to a display board.

Fossils would not likely be found in rock other than limestone, sandstone, and shale, or rock such as marble that has morphed from these sedimentary rocks.

Fossils can basically be find in most Sedimentary rocks, but not in Igneous rocks because they are formed in volcanoes.

Probably because the land where the fish fossils are found was once under the sea.

when a fossil is exposed at the earths surface, that means that weathering and

erosions has exposed it or the movement of plate tectonics moved the earth and

then the fossil is exposed that way.

Sedimentary rocks form three horizontal layers: strata, singular and stratum. The organisms that fall into the sedimentary rocks, will then be fossilized in each layer.

they can, but they are mostly found underground

Fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, and natural gas) are made, over long periods of time, from vegetable matter including algae, ferns, etc. Sometimes in popular culture, fossil fuels are said to result from dinosaur remains, but that is not the case; dinosaurs, like any other animal, will decay after death, and do not leave behind any fossil fuels (although they do leave behind fossils of other sorts).

Scientists who study fossils are known as paleontologists.
Scientists who study fossils are known as paleontologists. A paleontologist who studies dinosaurs may be a vertebrate paleontologist or a macro paleontologist.

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This matter should be applyed to all ancient subjects that have been studied by scientists since they began getting interested on past issues: Antropology, archeology, space research (nowadays) and planets observation since Galileo, the Incas and the Egyptian people. If the subject is to study the past, no matter if it is fossils or other issues concerning to the past. Everything has one goal : the anxiety of knowing our origins. How and when everything was formed... Fossils, human skulls, archeology, have a common characteristic : The visible linkage to the past.

Entomologists, which means study of insects, is in the field of biology.