Question 48
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An unfortunate deer becomes stuck in quicksand at the edge of a lake and dies. A few months later, it is buried by sediment in a massive landslide, but by this time, bacteria have fulty decomposed its soft tissues. Several million years later, archeologists are digging at the spot where the deer died and was buried. Would the archeologists be able to find a fossil of the deer? Why or why not?
Yes, because its skeleton could have been repaced by minerals to form a fossil,
Yes, because it would have fossilized before it was buried.
No, because bacteria continued to decompose its sheleton after it was buried.
No, because it needed to be fully intact when buried to form a fossil.