Fossils And History : Paleontology for Kids (First Grade Science Workbook Series)

shape as the original object, but is chemically more like a rock.

A fossilized object has the same

Fossil fuels are essentially the remains of plants of animals. They provide us with a source of nonrenewable energy

Fossils of imprints may form, like casts of dinosaur footprints.
The fossil of a bone doesn’t have any bone in it!

Over long periods of time, these small pieces of debris are compressed (squeezed) and are buried under more and more layers of sediment that piles up on top of it.

Fossils are the remains of ancient animals and plants, the traces or impressions of living things from past geologic ages, or the traces of their activities.

The word fossil comes from the Latin word fossilis, which means, “dug up”.
Fossils have been found on every continent on Earth.

The only direct way we have of learning about dinosaurs is by studying fossils.

that studies the forms of life that existed in former geologic periods, primarily by studying fossils.

Paleontology is the branch of biology