Dinosaur Fossil Museum
Dinosaurs Fossils Have you ever wondered how we know so much about the dinosaurs, even though it’s been 65 million years since they walked the Earth? We have fossils to thank for that! Fossils can give scientists clues about animals and plants that lived a long, long time ago. What Are Fossils? Fossils are the remains of animals or plants that were once living. We made dough out of salt, flour and water to make our fossils. There are two main types of fossils: body fossils and print or trace fossils. Body fossils are the remains of plants or animals that were once living. The most common examples are dinosaur bones. Print or trace fossils are signs of once-living organisms such as a footprint. Sometimes even footprints and burrows (holes that animals live in) can be fossilized. For example, dinosaur footprints from long ago may have filled with sediment (sand, mud, little pieces of rock) and then eventuall