Fake fossils are detected because scientist check what type of material they are made of. Most fake fossils are made of cement or plaster.
Amber is fossilized tree resin, while most fossils are made from the remains of organisms.
The actual product is called oil, but further back it is made of fossils so compact, that it became liquid
Limestone is made up out of fossils of corals and shells from the water.
Paleontology
The public is able to view fossils most easily in most museums. This is the best way because there they are cleaned up and laid out with explanation of what the fossil is and where it was found.
paleontologist
Well, dinosaurs made fossils; plants, insects, nearly everything made fossils. To list them all here would take too much time and space on the server. i would suggest narrowing your question to more specific criteria.
Fossils aren't but the life that made them is.
they become trace fossils because they made the prints
The most marine fossils are found in sedimentary rock
Like most fossils, dinosaur fossils have been mostly replaced with minerals and are not made of the original material. However, many contain trace amounts of original material. Some even contain proteins from the dinosaur.