# How Fossils Form

Explain in simple terms how fossils form: an organism dies and is quickly buried in sediment; over millions of years minerals replace the remains and the sediment turns to rock, preserving the shape

Builds on: Fossils & Palaeontologists (hard, https://ai.page/c/fossils-and-palaeontologists/en.md), Real Dinosaurs vs Fiction (soft, https://ai.page/c/real-dinosaurs-vs-fiction/en.md), How fossils form (soft, https://ai.page/c/how-fossils-form-science/en.md)

Concept id: how-fossils-form. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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