The fossil record is the evidence of past life preserved in rock. Read the fossil record.
It is overwhelmingly biased towards hard parts and towards animals that died in mud. The fossil record misses almost everything, and what it does keep is extraordinary.
1nounfossil recordThe evidence of past life preserved in rock.
“The fossil record shows five great extinctions and we may be in a sixth.”
fossil record is evidence.
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