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The vast majority of dead animals are not fossilised. For something to become a fossil it has to die under very special circumstances.

If an animal living in a forest dies it will quickly be absorbed by the other life around it, insects, fungi, bacteria all play their part in recycling the energy provided by the dead animal.

The same happens on the plains and under the seas, though the organisms doing the recycling will be different.

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The dead organism's remains or traces must be preserved long enough to be recorded in rock.

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For fossils to form, conditions have to be right and the animal must have bones.

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