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Fossils help scientists classify extinct species and determine their relationship to current species. Fossils provides What information about extinct species?

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Fossils can provide the time a species existed through carbon-14 dating, and can also show structures within the species that are similar to other organisms on earth today or other organisms before/slightly after that fossils existence.