Question

State the significance of the study of fossils in evolution.

Answer 1

1. Fossils can give us insight into how pre- historic plants and animals obtained food, reproduced and even how they behaved.
   
2. Fossils provide evidence for how or why the fossil organism died.
   
3. Fossils allow researchers to match layers of rock in different locations by age based on how similar the fossils in each rock layer are. This helps in understanding when the layers of rocks were formed even when large distances separate them.
   
4. The type of fossil in a particular location tells us what kind of environment existed when the fossil was formed.
   
5. Using information pieced together from fossil evidence, scientists can reconstruct body types of animals that no longer exist and put together to describe the evolutionary relationships between organisms.