Answer:
The statement is false.
Explanation:
A fossil is the remains of a living creature, or plant, from the distant past turned into stone (usually sedimentary stone). They are older than 10,000 years and can therefore be assigned to a geological age before the beginning of the Holocene. Scientifically-based estimates indicate that around a billion animal and plant species have emerged since the beginning of the Phanerozoic era 541 million years ago and have largely died out. Some estimates are as high as 1.6 billion. Fossil has been preserved well below one percent of this biodiversity, not only because of the special circumstances required for fossilization, but also because many fossils have been destroyed again over the course of millions of years as a result of weathering, erosion or rock metamorphosis.
