Mold

Real World Example

Imagine you’ve baked a cake in a fancy-shaped pan, but when you try to remove it, the cake falls apart, leaving a perfect impression of its shape in the pan. This is similar to how a mold fossil is formed—when a buried organism dissolves, it leaves a hollow imprint in the surrounding rock. Just like the cake pan preserves the shape of the cake, the rock preserves the shape of the organism, providing a detailed mold of what once was there.