Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Fossils
The correct answer is Fossils. - Palaeontology is the study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils.
- Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.
- Palaeontology is the scientific study of the life of the geologic past that involves the analysis of plant and animal fossils, including those of microscopic size, preserved in rocks.
- Osteology is the study of Bones.
- Primatology is the scientific study of primates.
- The study of Birds is known as Ornithology.
- The study of plants is known as Botany.
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