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This picture shows a fossil of an ancient animal called Megaloceros. An adult Megaloceros could grow over seven feet tall.
Which traits did Megaloceros have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows a fossil of an ancient animal called Meiolania. An adult Meiolania was about eight feet long.
Which traits did Meiolania have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows a fossil of an ancient plant called Palaeocyparis. This fossil shows one of the plant's branches.
Fossils of Palaeocyparis have been found in rocks that are more than 150,000,000 years old.
Which traits did Palaeocyparis have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows a fossil of an ancient animal called Ursus spelaeus.
Ursus spelaeus went extinct about 24,000 years ago. Many Ursus spelaeus fossils have been found in caves.
Which traits did Ursus spelaeus have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows a fossil of an animal called Holophagus. Holophagus lived in the ocean and gave birth to live young.
Which traits did Holophagus have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This drawing shows the skeleton of an ancient animal called Ichthyornis. This drawing was made by looking at the animal's fossils.
This picture shows a fossil of an ancient animal called Glyphithyreus.
Glyphithyreus fossils have been found in rocks that are more than 30,000,000 years old.
Which traits did Glyphithyreus have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows a fossil of an ancient animal called Asterotrygon. The fossil preserves the shape of Asterotrygon's body.
Asterotrygon was a type of fish. It lived in lakes and gave birth to live young.
Which traits did Asterotrygon have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows a fossil of an ancient animal called Coelodonta.
Coelodonta was hunted by early humans and went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Which traits did Coelodonta have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.
This picture shows the fossil of an ancient animal called Glyptodon. Glyptodon lived over 10,000,000 years ago
Which traits did Glyptodon have? Select the traits you can observe on the fossil.