Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The History of Fossils

Why is it so important to have a good fossil record? Why do we need to learn about the past? And can your past really determine our future?

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its important to keep fossil records to see what different kids of animals used to live and what animals are still living today. Some of the fossils look like animals today. You can predict the future on what kinds of animals could evolve like they did millions of years ago.

Kendall said...

Its important so we can see what kinds of animals lived at a certain time. We can learn how animals evolved from the past up until now. The past may be able to determine our future by showing what happend and what caused it.

Matt G said...

it is important to see what an animol looked like. some animol bones dont stay for long times. some exanples are bugs.

Silly Willy said...

Keeping good fossil records is important so we know what happened in the past. You can seehow animals evolved and stuff like that. We need to learn about the past so we dont make the same mistakes in the future. It can help us see what kind of changes might happen in the future.

bean said...

so we know how animals have changed. we can also find new animals that are all dead. we could see how animals can change in the future

Bierman said...

Its important to see where animals are. We can see how they have changed. Later in the future you will be able to se how animals have changed.

matt said...

It is important because it could deal with an important factor the could occur in the next couple of years. We need it to find out maybe other diseases in the world today and their cures. The past of the dinausours can determine what will happen in the next couple of years.

Gil said...

people need to know about the past so we know what changes have happened. the fossil records would help show what has happened and will show what animals have changed. people should all know about animals and plants and things that were here even before people.

Tiffany said...

It is important to have a good fossil record because fossils can help us to determine what species have survived the longest and why. This, in turn, means we could develop something to help our species survive longer by adapting something for our needs that another species had in the past. We need to learn about the mistakes that other creatures made so we don't make them. What you do can certainly determine your future, learn from your mistakes.

chelsea said...

It's important so that we can see what kinds of animals and plants were on Earth at the time. They past can help us to learn for the future so we know if we should prepare for something that caused a mass extinction or what caused the animals to die out. We can see how the animals have evolved from past times.

Tristen said...

It's important to keep fossil records so we know how long life has been on Earth and which animals lived in which parts of the world. We need to learn about the past so we don't repeat itself in the future also to have a better understanding of our world before humans. Yes, in a way because the effects of our past may help in determining how our future will be presented.

chris said...

You can tell what kind of animals lived in the past. You can also learn how animals evolved. The past may show how things will happen in the future. Then we may be able to prevent something bad from happening.

!*Liz*! said...

Good fossil records are good for us because you can use them to figure out what killed some plants and animals. This will help us reduce this from happening again. You can predict the future somewhat on what kinds of animals could evolve like they did millions of years ago. Fossil turn out to be fuels and so we need fossils and records to predict how our economy could be.

Kayla said...

Its important to have a good fossil record so we know what types of animals and how long ago they lived here. We need to learn how old the earth was and how earth looked geographyically. The past can predict the future because of evolution. We can determine what animals will look like.

crystaldragon said...

so we know what happen long ago. so we can peridicted the furture events. and to know what animals that live then.

rach said...

its important to have a good fossil record so you can keep track of the different kinds of animals and what not that has been found. would learn about the past b/c should know how the animals evolved from then till now. keeping the good records would somewhat determine the future so we know kinda what to expect