amazingsteve amazingsteve 23-05-2019 Biology contestada A paleontologist is a scientist that studies the fossils of ancient animals. Fossils are very important pieces of evidence of evolution because.... the fossils prove that the animals today have always been present on Earth.the fossils show that there are no similarities between dead and living animalsthe fossils show many similarities in body structures between living and deadthe fossils show that there would be no DNA similarities among living and dead​