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How fossils form, how they are dug up and how they are read.
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Fossils are almost always found in which type of rock?
What usually happens to an animal's soft parts before the rest of it can fossilise?
In most fossil bones, the original bone is slowly replaced by what?
Insects are sometimes preserved perfectly in amber, which is fossilised what?
What is the name for a piece of fossilised dung?
Footprints, burrows and bite marks are all examples of which kind of fossil?
A line of fossil footprints left by a single walking animal is called what?
Widespread, short-lived species used to match up and date rock layers are called what?
In an undisturbed stack of rock layers, which layers are the oldest?
Very old volcanic ash layers are dated by measuring the steady decay of what?
Why is radiocarbon dating useless on dinosaur bones?
What do we call a scientist who studies fossils?
Which scientists study human history through the objects and buildings people left behind?
Which tool is used to sweep loose dust off a delicate fossil bone?
Large fossils are wrapped in a hard protective jacket made of what before being moved?
What do fossil hunters call the surrounding rock that a fossil has to be freed from?
Fossils are often first spotted after which slow natural process uncovers them?
Which fossil hunter of Lyme Regis found important ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons in the early 1800s?
When a buried shell dissolves away it leaves a hollow impression in the rock called what?
What nickname is given to a species alive now that closely resembles its ancient fossil relatives?
Petrified wood forms as buried wood is slowly replaced by which mineral?
Layered rocky mounds built up over time by mats of microbes are called what?
The La Brea site in Los Angeles trapped Ice Age animals in sticky pools of what?
Which parts of an animal are by far the most likely to end up as fossils?
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