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The scientists of today have long used fossils as their basis of knowledge about dinosaurs. Fossilization has been thought of as a process whereby bone and organic material is slowly replaced by inorganic sedimentary minerals.
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However, the fossilization process has not been wholly understood until recently. Most fossils are buried deep within the earth near water tables; the same underground water responsible for transforming bones to fossils creates other side effects in the process.
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