A scientist discoveries a fossil of an animal in places it in the fossil record the organisms bones are similar to the bones of animal tea which appears earlier in the fossil record which conclusion is most reasonable?

a. the fossils are from a descendant animal of t
b. the fossils are from an ancestor of animal t
c. the fossils are from animals that lived at the same time
d. the fossils came from the same organism

b. the fossils are from an ancestor of animal t