A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a living thing from the past, often found in rocks.

Fossils are formed when plants or animals are buried by sediment, which hardens over time into rock.

Fossils can provide information about what animals and plants looked like, what they ate, and how they lived.

Bones are the parts of an animal that are most likely to become fossils.

An example of a fossil is a dinosaur bone or a shell from a sea creature.

Fossils can tell us the size of dinosaurs and what they might have eaten.

We cannot learn how dinosaurs behaved from fossils.

Clay is the best material to use to make a model of a fossil.

Fossils do not help us understand the future.

An imprint fossil is a type of fossil that shows the shape of a plant or animal, like a footprint.