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fossil
📅 Updated:2022-07-15
🕒 Created:2022-07-15
🆔 ID:43718
Description
A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in "amber":/wiki_pages/43719, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record.
