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What is the study of fossils?

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What is the study of fossils?
posted Mar 31, 2016 by Kapil Kapoor

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Paleontology is the science dealing with the fossils of long-deceased animals and plants that lived up to billions of years ago.

  • It's an interdisciplinary field involving geology, archaeology, chemistry, biology, archaeology and anthropology.
  • A paleontologist studies the history and process of evolution by examining fossils, the preserved traces of long dead animals and plants.
  • Using data from fossilized bones they tell us about the history of the earth, the evolution of life, and our own place in the world.
answer Mar 31, 2016 by Erika
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