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Becoming a fossil

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pics of rare set of circumstances to turn a living creature into fossilized bone in the case of Lucy the famous hominid fossil discovered in Ethiopia is Great Rift Valley in 1974 there is no evidence that she met a violent death no predator or scavenger found her body before it began riding in The Lakes socks that amends are bones which settled in the mud they have been cracked or Shattered by animals roaming around to shorty heavy rains gradually Washtenaw sand and gravel to bury her bones deposits built up over thousands of years during her remains hundreds of feet deep the counseling that are bones my molecule was replaced by minerals are released ultimately turning the bones to tree man prayed over millions of years while the Earth's crust would constantly forcing the remains of her body closer to the surface any storms beating down on the and most likely brought her once again can you ask surgeries her exposure made it possible for Anthropologist to later discovered her remains some 3 million years after her death

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