Behind the Scenes at the Museum Fossils are the remains of animals and plants, or the record of their presence, preserved in the rocks of the Earth.
Fossilization is the process that turns a once living thing into a fossil.
There are lots of fossils to be found, but only a tiny number of all the animals and plants that ever lived have been fossilized. This fossil cyber-display was created by Irene Chalmers of the Discovery Centre with help from Janet Waddington of the Department of Paleobiology.