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AND WHAT IS PALEONTOLOGY?
is by studying fossils. 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. Fossils have been found on every continent on Earth, maybe even near where you live.
from sedimentary rock layers 
. Sedimentary rock is rock that has formed from sediment, like sand, mud, small pieces of rocks. Over long periods of time, these small pieces of debris are compressed (squeezed) as they are buried under more and more layers of sediment that piles up on top of it. Eventually, they are compressed into sedimentary rock. The layers that are farther down in the Earth are older than the top layers.
doesn't have any bone in it! A fossilized object has the same shape as the original object, but is chemically more like a rock.
Paleontology is the branch of biology that studies the forms of life that existed in former geologic periods, chiefly by studying fossils.
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Antarctic Fossils |
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