Understanding Dinosaurs Research Paper

When understanding fossils, what is the first thing you think of? For me it is Dinosaurs. I don’t tend to think of any other animal fossils. Understanding fossils date back to 1666. Niels Steno a Danish anatomist was asked to dissect a giant shark that was off the coast in Italy. When dissecting, Niels was stunned with the resemblance of a shark’s tooth and tongue stones. Tongue stones are triangular pieces of rock. Niels was motivated to learn more and see if he could prove the tongue stones were shark teeth. Niels declared that the tooth was, in fact, the tongue stone but still needed to find a way to prove how the shark tooth turned to stone and got lodged in rock. The question that was asked was “how could fossils end up deep inside rocks?”