I’ve heard that 99% of animals won’t fossilize and the ones that do are rare to even find, if that’s the case then how come we have so many examples of specific species even across the world from eachother when surely the fossil record should just be a jumbled mess of at least only quasi related species, is it that some species are lumped together due to similarities or what?
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It really has to do with the animals and location in most cases. For example, dinosaurs fossilize comparatively well because they were usually big. That being said, you’re correct that it’s very rare that things fossilized at all, and that the fossil record is a jumbled, quasi-related mess. When you consider all the animals that have existed, what seems like so many really does only represent a tiny fraction of prehistoric biodiversity.
I don’t exactly know what you mean by species across the world from each other though, could you elaborate?
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