Glutamic acid is a natural constituent of many fermented or aged foods, including soy sauce, fermented bean paste, and cheese, and is also a component of hydrolyzed protein such as yeast extract. The sodium salt of glutamic acid, monosodium glutamate (MSG), is a widely used additive in the food industry.
Paleontologistâs estimate that only a small percentage of the dinosaurs that ever lived have been or will be found as fossils, because their bodies simply decayed. The word fossil comes from the Latin word fossils, which means, âdug upâ. Most fossils are excavated from sedimentary rock layers. Sedimentary rock is rock that has formed from materials like sand, mud, and small pieces of rock. Over long periods of time, these small pieces of debris are squeezed and are buried under more and more layers of sediment that piles up on top of it.
When most people think of fossils they think of dinosaur skeletons and large bones, but there are many different types of fossils to be found. Palaeontologists, people who study fossils, divide them into two major types-body fossils and trace fossils.Body fossils show us what a plant or animal looked like. The first type, body fossils, are the fossilised remains of an animal or plant, like bones, shells and leaves.he second type of fossil records the activity of an animal. Known as trace fossils, these include footprints, trackways, and coprolites (fossil poo!). Footprints and coprolites are trace fossils-they show us how an animal lived. There are lots of different types of fossil.