eli5: Do you have to carve Fossils out of the stone or will they pop out in the form they are in, when the stone it split open?

Question

eli5: Do you have to carve Fossils out of the stone or will they pop out in the form they are in, when the stone it split open?

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Answer 1

Sometimes fossils are harder than the surrounding rock and in that case they’re right there on the surface.