a metacarpal fracture can occur in any sport although the highest risk is in those sports where there is a risk of a high energy impact occurring to the athlete s hand classically this occurs in boxers and other athletes involved in the martial arts
ï· fossils provide clues about both abiotic and biotic factors of past ecosystems. ï· fossils provide evidence about the changes in climate and temperature of past. ecosystems. ï· fossils can give us clues about how organisms interacted with one another.
Footprints have been preserved as fossils and provide evidence of prehistoric life. Known as ichnites, these trace fossils can give clues to the behaviour of specific species of dinosaur. The study of such fossils is known as ichnology and the footprints may be given scientific names (ichnospecies).