Which of the following is not a fossil?a. Dried-out animal bones in a layer of desert sandb. A patch of fur encased in amberc. A woolly mammoth frozen in Arctic permafrostd. Remains of an extinct whalelike animale. The impression of a plant leaf in sandstonef. The wrinkly texture of shale imprinted withbiofilms in sediments

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