Many environments are not suitable for fossil formation.
Approx 1/22500 of it.
it has been for 90%
Easily 3.5 billion minutes!
You can express is at a proportion by mass or by volume.
72/100 i think
This is because some of the things that existed were eaten by other things and so ceased to exist.
Because for much of the earth's early history, living things were made up of soft tissue only.
Because living things made up of soft tissues did not leave fossils and these accounted for most of the life forms on earth.
Approx 1/22500 of it.
index fossils
Fossils affect how people think about ancient creatures of Earth. The fossils show animals that people did not previously know existed.
yes
They are called fossils.
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It is index fossils.
They are called index fossils, an aid to relative dating of rock.
Scientists can use fossils to learn about what happened about what Earth was like in the past. A fossil is any evidence A fossil is any evidence that life once existed in a place.