Question

State the significance of study of fossils in evolution

Answer 1

Fossils show life form restricted to certain geological time spans exiting in the past. Fossils connect link between two groups of organisms.

Answer 2

Answer:

➢ Fossils are an important source of information that give us clues about what happened millions

of years ago.

➢ Fossils of plants, animals and even footprints help ‘paleontologists’ to understand what sort of

animals lived in a particular area, what the climate could have been like, what type of food

sources were available and what the landscape these animals and plants lived in.

➢ Together these help to form a picture of what things were like millions of years ago