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Fossils: The Oldest Rocks On Earth
Did you ever want to be paleontologist, now you can. Fossils are the oldest rocks on earth. They can be anything that was over 4,000 years ago. Fossils are what tell us what come before humans a million years ago.

Do you ever stop and think there might be a T. Rex under your house. Well fossils preserved remains of organisms. Fossils can be over 4,000 or a million years old. Usual the preserves are of animals. Fossils arranged from the size of a mouse to a ten story building. This is how all those fossils are made. The dead animal makes its body's imprinted in mud and buried. Then all lot of pressure is needed to help the body imprint in the ground.The body dissolves in the ground. Then rocks are replaced in that structure.

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