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What is fossil ?

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Fossils are any kind of remnants, models or impressions of once living, but now extinct, organisms preserved in Earth.s rocks. These fossils provide the most direct evidence of evolution by revealing the characteristics of the organisms of the past, as well as, the changes which occurred in these characteristics from time to time.
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