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What were the characteristics of life forms that had been fossilised?

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Fossilization:

● Dead bodies of plants and animals buried under the sediments form impressions or get mineralized forming fossils.

● The hard parts of the body like the teeth,bones ,shells get mineralised. The soft parts are decayed.

● The life forms undergoing fossilization possess hard parts that can be transformed into fossils.




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