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प्रश्न
What is the study of fossils called?
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उत्तर
Palaeontology
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Describe in brief two methods of determining the age of fossils.
State any one role of fossils in the study of the process of evolution.
What is embryology?
How does Embryology study lead us to understand evolution?
Name two organisms which are now extinct and studied from their fossils.
What are fossils? Giving one example, explain how fossils provide evidence for evolution.
Some of the important fossils which have been studied are those of organisms X, Y and Z. X were marine arthropods which were common between 400 to 600 million years ago. Y were the invertebrate animals (molluscs) with a flat, coiled, spiral shell which lived in the sea about 180 million years ago. Z are the extinct carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles which appeared on the earth about 250 million years ago and became extinct about 65 million years ago. What are X, Y and Z?
The best way of direct dating fossils of recent origin is by ______.
Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOT)
Imprints of fossils tell us about evolutionHow?
