Quarky and the Fossil Hunters
How does a soft animal turn into hard stone?
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The story
Quarky joins a dig to learn how bones slowly turn to stone and how scientists read the ancient story in the rock.
What you'll learn
- A fossil is the leftover of a living thing, kept safe inside rock.
- Minerals seep into buried bones and slowly turn them to stone.
- Deeper rock layers are older than the ones above them.
- Even children have found some of the greatest fossils ever.
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