Fossil Practice Sheet

How long does it take to turn animal into a fossil? Some people say million of years but it can be true because the world is not even 7000 years old since it was created.

Nearly all fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary is rock formed by water. Plants or animals are buried by fowling water, mud, sill, shingle, and sand. As layer of sediment build up a plant or animal is compressed, and same tiny minerals work their way body of the creature. Eventually the creature sets hard and become part of a rock, then along comes a paleontologist and chip away the rock, reveling the shape of a dead creature (or plant).

Some researches have made their own fossils, using sea-water plus bacteria. Using this method dead shrimp turned into fossils in about 6 weeks. This backs up the Bible, which tells of a wide flood which buried less than a yea, leaving billions of fossils in the rocks today.