Explain the importance of fossils in deciding evolutionary relationships.
ScienceClass 10CBSEAnswered 27 Mar 2026
Answer
Fossils give evidence about:
(a) The organism and their paleobiology
(b) Even the behaviour of an organism can be deduced to some extent (for example, palaeontologists) have unearthed a site with more than 10,000 skeletons of a dinosaur called Hadrosaurus. This implies that the dinosaur lived in herds.
(c) Fossils also provide insight into the evolutionary history of animals and plants (for instance, palaeontologists have discovered that whales had evolved from goat-sized land-dwelling animals called Pakicetus).
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