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People who study fossils

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paleontologists

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First step in fossil formation

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An animal dies.

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Living thing, plant or animal

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An organism

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Extinction of a group of animals

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All members have died

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Fossil inference

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Water once covered the area

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Petrified

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turned to stone

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Insects trapped in amber

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Preserved (stay the same)

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Fossil formation of dinosaurs

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Covered in sediment

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NOT a fossil

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seashell found on the beach

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Fossil of a fish found on a mountain

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Area was once underwater