By Parker Emma Finn Liam and Nils Introduction A fossil is a mold of a old living thing A fossil can also be an imprint of an animal A fossil is not always a bone a fossil is not always a stone ID: 324080
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Fossils
By Parker, Emma, Finn, Liam, and NilsSlide2
Introduction
A fossil is a mold of a old living thing. A fossil can also be an imprint of an animal. A fossil is not always a bone, a fossil is not always a stone.Slide3
How fossils are formed
When animals die, there bones are pressed between mud & dirt, and when the mud hardens it creates a fossil.Slide4
Amber Fossils
When a bug is caught in the sticky sap that comes out of a tree.
The bug will die and the sap around it will harden and become amber
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Human fossils
Human fossils can be like just a skull. Or it can be An imprint of a human bone.
Homo Sapiens, a town species in South Africa is famous for it’s bad teeth and this hole in one side of the skull. Slide6
Footprints
Fossils can be footprints from 1,000’s of years ago.
Fossils can be footprints from dinosaurs.
Fossils can be a plant’s mark as a footprint. Slide7
Plant Fossils
During it’s lifetime, each tree sheds a huge number of leaves that could turn into a fossil.
The Poplar leaf fossils are almost identical to present day Poplar leaves.
Buds are rarely preserved in fossil plants.Slide8
Snake Bones
The snake skull is mostly made out of jaw bones.
The jaw is less jointed so it can swallow bigger prey.
The snake skeleton is mostly made out of vertebraeSlide9
Snake Bones
The snake skull is mostly made out of jaw bones.
The jaw is less jointed so it can swallow bigger prey.
The snake skeleton is mostly made out of vertebrae.
Snakes have 200 pairs of ribs.
The fang is hollow so poison go’s from the side of the head to the fang.Slide10
Conclusion
What we found out was that almost anything can be a fossil including plants and footprints etc.