This is the cold, hard truth of petrification.

It's a cold, hard fact of fossilization.Everything paleontologists findwas once alive and, at some point, died.We'll skip the details and assume you had a long, fulfilling life so we can get to what is really important --how you die.There are many ways to become a fossil,so let's highlight your top death options.You could get yourself trapped in tree sap,which, when hardens, turns into amber and can survive intact for millions of years.