what does this phrase mean?
Smith recalled seeing the animal as an empty fossil split from a rock.
In this sentence, what does "empty fossil" mean? Thank you!
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A fossil can be a hard stone made from calcium replacing an object over thousands of years. It may also be an empty space because the calcium has been removed some how (like it resolved.) So that is what has been found here. The empty space between two rocks where an object once was.
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like nothing inside, or very old
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