What makes a fossil a fossil?
Read More http://www.fossilmuseum.net/fossilrecord… Body Fossils The processes of fossilization are complex with many stages from burial to discovery as a fossil. Organisms with hard parts such as a mineralized shell, like a trilobite or clam, are much more likely to become fossilized than animals with only soft parts such as a jellyfish or worms. Body fossils of plants and animals almost always consist only of the skeletonized or toughened parts because soft tissues are destroyed by decay or by scavengers. Even hard parts can be destroyed by wave action or by other organisms, like fungi and algae, which can slowly eat away hard parts. Many species of plant and animal fossils are known only from their fragments. The remains of an organism that survive biological and physical attack must then become quickly buried by sediments. The odds increase for an organism to become fossilized if i
