Fossils Vs Plant Fossilization

How might conditions for successful fossilization differ between mammals and plants? Well, fossils and plants have a very different chemical makeup. for example, plants have a soft tissue that would have to have just the right conditions in order to fossilize. On the other hand, a fossil is very hard and solid, therefore they are able to fossilize in much harsher conditions. Fossils have very different ways of being fossilized.

Hard shells and bones are much more likely to be fossilized. That's why we only find dinosaur bones and not flesh. We sometimes find flesh, if it is frozen over or kept in something that doesn't spoil the tissue. But that is not very likely. Or at least not as likely as finding bones and shells that are hard and can withstand hundreds and thousands of years. Because they will be able to be buried under dirt and rocks and still not break. The dirt and rocks is also the thing that helps them preserve and helps them become fossils.

Soft tissues are very rare, but still found around the world. They are more common in frozen climates, or areas that used to be frozen. This is because the ice or snow that covers the body, stops all the blood flow and organs. But it also stops the decay of the soft tissues. Then it is buried in dirt, or even more snow and ice. That is how soft tissues are preserved and how scientists can learn more about the past by studying the skin and other organs and tissues from animals that are now extinct, or humans that are from a whole other time period and