Historians can use information provided by geologists and other experts to understand land formations change. how do remnants of different types of animals explain what happened to landforms during the miocene epoch

The fossils of the animals are also important to gather information of the past time.  

Explanation:

Like the information gathered by the geologists and archaeologists, fossils of the animals are also playing an important role in gather the information about the land form. The fossil of the animals shows that the life on the earth was different in past time.

Paleontologists can determine the age of fossils using methods such as radiometric dating and classify them to determine evolutionary relationships between organisms. Thus, fossils have their own importance in telling about land time travelling.  

south, because if you took a map you would see texas is directly in the middle of east and west, but it is also downwards towards mexico, therefore it is south