fossils can not form if a plant or animal does what
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Most fossils form when an organism dies. Their bodies get buried with sediment. Layers of sediment slowly build up. The sediment is buried with even more sediment.
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Not many plants and animals are lucky enough be turned into fossils. When an animal or plant dies its remains usually rot away to nothing
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When an animal or plant dies its remains usually rot away to nothing. Sometimes though, when the conditions are just right and its remains can be buried quickly, it may be fossilised. There are several different ways fossils are formed. Here we go through the five steps of fossilisation to make a typical 'mould and cast' fossil.
Skeleton on the sea floorAn animal dies, its skeleton settles on the sea floor and is buried by sediment.
An animal dies and its body sinks to the sea floor. The soft parts of the animal rot away, leaving only its skeleton. The skeleton is buried by sediment (like mud or sand) falling from the ocean above. The sea floor is an ideal place for fossilisation, which explains why many fossils are marine (from animals that lived in the sea). Land animals may die and be swept out to sea to be buried in the same way.