Which of the following statements regarding fossil formation is false?

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Millions of years later, dinosaurs living in the area die, and their bodies, too, are buried in mud.

The bodies of horse-like creatures dying in the area are fossilized in rocks above these earlier rocks.

Much later, erosion or water flow wears away some of the rock and exposes the horse-like fossils. As we dig deeper, we will find older and older fossils.

The age of fossils cannot be determined.

answer is D.

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Fossils are used for tracing the evolutionary relationship between species and are examples of preserved traces of living entities.

"The age of fossils cannot be determined." is a false statement.

The age of fossils can be estimated in two ways.

The fossils that are found in the topmost layers are considered more recent ones than those found n the deeper layers.
An estimation of the ratios of different isotopes of the same element in the fossil is carried out to calculate the age of the fossil.

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