Sometimes, the remains of a dead animal escape destruction and became buried in sediment of ash or survives under heating, crushing or folding. The sediments or rock becomes elevated as a part of the land escapes destructive erosion by water or wind and the object becomes exposed or dug out comes to the attention of a zoologist. Such a phenomenon leads to formation of:
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Fossils are remains of hard parts of life-forms found in rocks. Rocks form sediments and a cross-section of earth's crust indicates the arrangement of sediments one over the other during the long history of earth. Different-aged rock sediments contain fossils of different life-forms who probably died during the formation of the particular sediment.
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