Many textbooks describe how fossils form, but few refer to the fossils that ... such as a marine mollusc – or a hippo – have a real chance of being fossilised because they have hard skeletons ...

Emmet here, and I'm about to witness an extremely rare event – a fossil being made! Some animals ... the sediments around the bone has compacted to form rock.Water has seeped into the bone ...

We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep past that allow us to marvel at the history of life on Earth, of animals that walked or swam many millions of years ago, of the giant trees that became ...