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"I was once alive but now I am stone. I am millions of years old yet I tell us about creatures that lived long before humans. What am I?"
Answer
A Fossil
Explanation
Fossils form when the remains of organisms are slowly replaced by minerals over millions of years. They are the primary evidence we have for prehistoric life and the history of evolution on Earth.
This is an easy riddle in the Science category — Riddles about physics, space, biology and the laws of the universe.
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