Most adventures schoolboys go and look for fossils, and a lot of adult children like me continue to do so into adulthood, as we collect fossils, it is part of the child in us who wants to go treasure hunting, looking for dinosaurs, exploring the world in real time to discover we are nothing more than microbes and another race of animals who are heading for extinction... the name fossil is Classical Latin "fossilis" which literally means "obtained by digging" and is any preserved remains or impression left behind from a living thing, some fossils are only traces left from our forgotten geological age. There is a fossil record where every known fossil found and identified is kept, from bones, skeletons, imprints, amber etc... this is where the palaeontologists examine the fossilised remains to understand evolution & how certain species have evolved...