What technology is used to find fossils?
The old-fashioned way still works best. You walk around an area where rock is exposed and look down on the ground for telltale bits and pieces and those are your main clues that theres something up on the cliff thats just beginning to be exposed by erosion. For example, if you see pieces of bones on the ground and then you look up the cliff face and see where the bone fell off and if you are lucky youll see the skeleton of an entire dinosaur look down at you. There are some modern technologies of using sound waves mostly in archeology that gives an idea of what lies below the surface. There are some remote-sensing techniques in this digital age, but the old-fashioned way is still the best. In the introduction it says you study trilobites. What are they and why do you find them interesting? Trilobites are extinct types of arthropods, which are a huge group of animals that include shrimp, insects, spiders, and horseshoe crabs. Trilobites are some of the oldest known complex animal fossil
