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Thinking about Fossils
1.
What are fossils?
2.
Why are fossils of marine organisms, such as fish, sometimes found
in arid, barren hills?
3.
What can paleontologists learn from fossils?
4.
Look at the images of fossils in the table on the next page. Try to
determine the environment in which the organisms lived thousands
or millions of years ago.
The Paleontologists’ Puzzle
Paleontologists have to be good puzzle
solvers. The environments in which they
dig up fossils are often in arid, barren
hills. They try to figure out what kind of
environments the plants or animals they
discover lived in when they were alive.
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