Fossil
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Fossils are remnants or traces of organisms from the past, that are typically embedded and preserved in sedimentary rock. There are three types of fossils: imprints, casts, mineralization.
- Imprints are where the organism simply left an imprint on a rock.
- Casts are where the organism left a cavity in a rock that got filled in by other material.
- Mineralization is where the material of the bones or other body parts get replaced by minerals.
Layers of fossiliferous rocks provide a record of the sequence of their deposition. This "fossil record" is typically diagrammed in a cross-section known as the geological column.
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Paleobotany
- Main Article: Paleobotany
Paleobotany is involved with the study of ancient plants. It is an important area of creation biology, as creationism and evolutionism have radically different descriptions of ancient plant life. Creationism holds that a wide variety of plant life was created by God fully intact with the capacity to reproduce and adapt to changing environments, approximately 6,000 years ago. Evolutionism holds that all plant life (and indeed all life on the planet) is related by common descent over millions of years, and that more complex plants developed more recently than simpler plants.
Paleozoology
- Main Article: Paleozoology
Fossil News
- Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells. Reuters Mar 24, 2005
- Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster' - Panel says professor of human origins made up data, plagiarized works. WorldNetDaily February 19, 2005
- Birds Flew Earlier Than Previously Thought, Scientists Say Scientists have determined that Archaeopteryx had what it took to fly. NYTimes August 4th, 2004
Related References
- Fossil Q&A by Anwers in Genesis
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