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Over time, the organic material left behind is replaced with minerals, leaving a fossil that is a stone structure of the original plant  or animal.

Not all plant and animal remains become fossilized over time. Certain conditions have to exist for fossilization to take place. For example, many fossils form when plant and animal remains are buried by mud, sand, or soil.

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(Information cited from : www.reference.com/world-view/long-fossil-form-f4f217114e4a0440) Fossils are often said to take a million years to form. However, as of 2014 it has been proven that a fossil can take a shorter period of time to form. This period can be a thousand years or less. Specimens are usually considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old. The oldest fossils are from around 3.48 billion years old to 4.1 billion years old.

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( information cited from: https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/where-can-you-find-fossils )
Despite the requirements of time and preservation, fossils can be found just about anywhere. From the tops of mountains  to the depths of the ocean, fossils can be found all over Earth.

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(info from  http://www.livescience.com/37781-how-do-fossils-form-rocks.html

) There are many different ways fossils are formed. The two ways that we list are only the few ways that they're made. Carbonation or distillation, yields a detailed carbon impression of the dead organism in sedimentary rock. The most common is permineralization or petrification, after an organism's soft tissues decay in sediment. The hard parts like bones, are left behind. There are many types of fossils including the face fossil the face fossil fossils are the remains of the actual organisms.

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(Information cited from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil) Paleontology is the study of fossils. Paleontologists study their age, method of formation, and evolutionary significance.

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(Information cited from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil) A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants.