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​ __ Welcome To My Wiki Page __ ** How is a Fossil like a Time Capsule? ** 

  What if we were able to create a time capsule of your home? It might contain the food that you eat, the place that you sleep, and the other living things with which you interact – your pets, your plants, even YOU! The time capsule would hold evidence of your environment so that if someone else found all the pieces, they could figure out how you lived. Now turn the clock back thousands and even millions of years. The organisms that lived on Earth left you a time capsule in rock called a fossil "LOCALITY". A fossil locality contains species from a particular place during a particular time. For example, imagine that an ancient swamp where T. rex and her prey lived is slowly buried in mud and turned to shale. That special shale may contain fossils of all the animals and plants that lived in that swamp, during that time.  Australia has a rich and very unique fossil record, with some of the best sites in the world, partially because of its relative isolation over millennia. Ranging from the very beginning of our planet (3.2 billion years ago) until today the fossils found in Australia are well known, and include the world's best example of dinosaur tracks, found near Winton, Queensland. A living fossil is an informal term used for any which is apparently identical or closely resembles a species previously known only from fossils—that is, it is as if the ancient fossil had "come to life."  This can be (a) a species or taxon known only from fossils until living representatives were discovered, such as the lobe-finned coelacanth, primitive monoplacophoran mollusk, and the Chinese maidenhair tree, or (b) a single living species with no close relatives, such as the New Caledonian Kagu , or the Sunbittern , or (c) a small group of closely-related species with no other close relatives, such as the oxygen-producing, primordial stromatolite, inarticulate lampshell Lingula , many-chambered pearly Nautilus , rootless whisk fern , armored horseshoe crab , and dinosaur-like tuatara that are the sole survivors of a once large and widespread group in the fossil record.  So in conclusion fossils are a time capsule. When fossils have been discovered they have allowed us to find things out about past species such as what they ate, where they lived and their size. These are the things that are put into a time capsule when they are sealed up for future generations to open and to have that understanding of times gone by.