Question

Research different locations in the world that have a record of fossils. What kind of fossils were found and what does it tell us about history, environment, climate, movement of plates, and other events?

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

There are different locations in the world that have a record of fossils. The kind of fossils found is basically of huge animals or what we know as dinosaurs. There are important places in Iraq, in the Middle East. In Argentina in South America. In North America, there are many places in the United States and in México.

For instance, in the United States, there are places such as Devonian Fossil Gorge, Iowa. Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Agata Fossil Beds, Nebraska. Or the Dinosaur Nationa Monument, Colorado.

In México, there is this big national park in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. Indeed, there is a fossil museum right there.

And in this very moment, when the government is constructing the new airport of Mexico City in the nearby state of Hidalgo, archeologists have found approximately 800 fossils, to the degree they are thinking of building a museum to exhibit these fossils.