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How do scientist determine how old the world is and the fossils inside of it?

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Yeah they usually see how far down in the ground a fossil is and if it’s deep down they know it’s very old if it’s not deep down then it ain’t very old
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Yeah they usually see how far down in the ground a fossil is and if it’s deep down they know it’s very old if it’s not deep down then it ain’t very old
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Yeah they usually see how far down in the ground a fossil is and if it’s deep down they know it’s very old if it’s not deep down then it ain’t very old
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The layers of the fossil the oldest is usual the bottom layer,and the top layer is the newest layer

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