9. Scientists who study ancient marine life forms usually obtain fossils not from the sea floor, but from areas that were once undersea and have been uplifted onto the continents. Why?

because of the constant change of the earths surface

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i believe it's c. the trait for large beaks will be passed on to future generations through natural selection.

since eventually smaller beaks would have to find another source of food or even eventually just die out from the lack of food.

linnaeus is the father of taxonomy, which is the system of classifying and naming organisms. one of his contributions was the development of a hierarchical system of classification of nature. today, this system includes eight taxa: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.