While fossils of land plants are abundant, ancient seaweed fossils are rare.
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"These fossils are among the best fossils I've ever seen in my career," Daley says, noting that fossils at the Qingjiang site include soft tissues, eyes and internal organs.
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The mineralized fossils were also associated with spheroidal structures that usually contain fossils in younger rocks.
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Additionally, the plant fossils are terrestrial -- palm trees and pine trees -- preserved with the marine fossils.
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Ichthyosaur fossils are exceptionally common, so paleontologists could uncover more fossils as pristine as this one. [Nature]
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"The Ngandong Homo erectus fossils have the largest cranial capacity of any Homo erectus fossils," Ciochon said.
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In 1909, scientists discovered a trove of fossils in British Columbia, known today as the Burgess Shale fossils.
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Paleontologists use fossils to peer into the past, but on rare occasions, fossils seem to uncannily return that gaze.
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Along with the fossils from Israel, she would like to see other fossils of modern humans added to the analysis.
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In total, the scientists managed to identify 35 fossils of this species, along with 13 trace fossils of the trails.
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Later research determined that those Greenland fossils were just plain old rocks, and the crown was returned to the Australian fossils.
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But given that new fossils can essentially be discovered on site every day, the fossils were stacking up in boxes and on shelves.
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Confirming the fossil evidenceIn 2016, scientists claimed to have found 3.7 billion-year-old fossils in Greenland, which unseated the Pilbara fossils' record.
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"There are white rocks that are jam-packed full of fossils, so many fossils that people cry when they see them," Dr. Wilf said.
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The spider specimenPhoto: Paul SeldenSome of the fossils came from the Lagonomegopidae spider family, the first time such fossils have been found outside of amber.
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The team examined the fossils using micro-computed tomography scanning, an imaging technique that allows minute details of fossils to be studied without damaging them.
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Such doubts have long shadowed the 1980s discovery of 3.5 billion-year-old fossils in the Australian desert, thought to be the oldest fossils ever found.
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Two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils.
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But a lack of well-preserved fossils has caused questions over their evolution, especially early on, and few of their fossils have been found outside South America.
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The importance of the fossils didn't immediately click Although the fossils were discovered in the Old Crow Basin in the 1970s, their significance wasn't fully realized until now.
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The fossils from this collection were not dated by van der Kamp's team, relying instead on earlier studies done on fossils found in the same region of France.
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"We ended up collecting nearly a thousand vertebrate fossils, over 6,000 plant fossils and our colleagues counted over 37,000 pollen grains as part of this study," Lyson said.
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Researchers can learn a lot from related fossils and groups of fossils found together, because it helps show what traits are a part of variation within the species.
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These aren't the oldest fossils of domesticated dogs; one jawbone dating to 220,403 years ago was found in Germany, and older fossils seem dog-like, but lack confirmation.
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As coal fades and renewables storm onto an energy battlefield long dominated by fossils, framing natural gas deployment as a battle of fossils seems like fighting the last war.
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" He added: "He would go to the places where the fossils were — and that is an extraordinary thing, because you don't know where the fossils are to begin with.
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The group fossils had originally been dug up near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in 1909—at the time, researchers had mistakenly categorized these particular fossils as a different kind of sea crocodile.
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The fossils were originally found in Kenya decades ago and thought to be a smaller species, but those researchers were searching for ancient apes, so the fossils were put aside.
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Ancient human-like fossils and artifacts have been found elsewhere in east Asia and Australia, along with the remarkable—but highly contentious—discovery of 2000,288-year-old human fossils in China.
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"When we think of dinosaurs, we think of these huge skeletons, but paleontology right now is being completely transformed by the discovery of skeletal fossils, fossils of vertebrates, preserved in amber."
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"Bottom line — no hominin fossils, no hominins," he said.
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The researchers called the discovery of the fossils on the Utah site "extremely rare" and also announced that during the dig they found that a number of the fossils had been taken.
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In examining the Pleistocene mammals, the researchers used ancient DNA to genetically determine the sex of 186 bison and 91 brown bear fossils (the sex of modern fossils was identified by their genitalia).
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Cope lived in Haddonfield and collected fossils in the area.
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The museum bought the fossils at auction for $8.4 million.
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They scanned the fossils and created 2194D reconstructions of them.
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""The thing is, we really analyzed these fossils to death.
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It was a valuable find: hordes of fossils, impeccably preserved.
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The further back we go, the rarer tick fossils become.
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Well, techincally it is, if you count fossils as stone.
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"We also have fossils of very large predators," he said.
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Nearby, they can also watch fossils being cleaned and studied.
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And apparently, the substance can be taken from the fossils.
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The plant fossils included pollen, leaf impressions and petrified wood.
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These recorded 548 cetacean fossils from a range of species.
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The other fossils in the find address a different question.
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That is because very few Denisovan fossils have been found.
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Fossils from land animals from the period are extremely rare.
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If not, the fossils should be left in the ground.
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For years, they found only animal fossils, including dwarf elephants.
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Before, researchers had only partial fossils, notably missing the skull.
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Much like fossils themselves, the truth appeared buried by time.
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Cleaning, preparing and studying this number of fossils takes time.
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Fossils are formed when an animal's remains turn into minerals.
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The site had otherwise yielded only the fossils of herbivores.
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Standard methods for dating these fossils have left scientists perplexed.
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Researchers are scouring the cave floor for still more fossils.
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The findings are based on Anchiornis fossils discovered in China.
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The Moroccan fossils, by contrast, are roughly 220,000 years old.
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"We really analyzed the composition of the fossils," he explained.
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Like fossils, astronomical objects are not randomly strewn throughout space.
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Go deeper: New, "pristine" fossils reveal secrets of Cambrian explosion
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He found the fossils during a hike near Hays, Alberta.
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"We still need more fossils to tell that," she said.
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Microscopic plant fossils called phytoliths told them about ancient vegetation.
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The key to settling such debates is finding more fossils.
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That's exactly why the new Namibian fossils are so exciting.
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Fossils of tropical flora have been discovered in the area.
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The team of 12 scientists reported the discovery of fossils on James Ross Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, which included a mix of marine and dinosaur fossils, dating back at least 71 million years.
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And fossils intermediate in form between sapiens and heidelbergensis are scarce.
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Indeed, dino fossils are hard to come by on this continent.
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And then he began to study the fossils with his colleagues.
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Indeed, we won't know for sure until more fossils are discovered.
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Seiffert acknowledged that the study would be stronger with more fossils.
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Check out the first episode of "Beat Break" with Beach Fossils.
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Scientists say the possibility of unearthing more fossils runs very high.
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This cenote has shell and coral fossils embedded in the limestone.
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The earliest-known legumes - bean pods - were among the Colorado fossils.
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Why whale fossils would accumulate in this particular spot is unknown.
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The hall also displays fossils such as mammals and marine reptiles.
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Over time, genetic material in fossils degrades until it becomes scarce.
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And it sucks that the fossils aren't in their current location.
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Merrie recently appeared in the Beach Fossils music video "Saint Ivy".
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Ichthyosaur fossils have mostly been found in North America and Europe.
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Each of us has different types of fossils that we study.
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No more Piltdown fossils were found after Dawson's death in 1916.
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The fossils of past actions fuel future economic and social outcomes.
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Lower in the sediment core, fossils abounded from 60 plankton species.
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These would be the earliest fossils of Homo sapiens ever discovered.
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"I'm worried that these would potentially become acoustic fossils," he says.
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Those fossils are in reality very small, under eight inches long.
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Extinct Dolphin Bones in Flight Look Like Fossils in Zero Gravity
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Gone is the museum, collecting fossils, and planting trees and flowers.
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He revoked protections for land rich in fossils and archaeological sites.
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Fossils, worked loose by wind and rain, spill down the sides.
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They carbon dated the rice fossils to be 9,400 years old.
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"He had the golden touch for finding fossils," Dr. Tattersall said.
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One part of an exposed glacier revealed fossils of dinosaur footprints.
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Homo floresiensis fossils date to as recently as 60,1433 years ago.
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They might even prefer our satirized fossils to our real selves.
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Their fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits.
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Dr. Vannier's team analyzed the sediment that preserves the Moroccan fossils.
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The issue is that not all micro-organisms leave behind fossils.
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The fossils were found with others, like phytosaurs and other dinosaurs.
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These fossils include partial skulls, hind legs, tail bones, and forelegs.
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Long history Indonesia has a long history with Homo erectus fossils.
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But there certainly may be other modern human fossils lying around.
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These findings were made possible by the discovery of exquisitely-preserved fossils of a new species of tyrannosaur, Daspletosaurus horneri, and an emerging paleontological technique in which prehistoric fossils are compared to the bones of modern animals.
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"We wanted to find out how the new media would open up new markets for rare fossils," said Andreas Guhr, the founder of Redgallery, who has been dealing in fossils and minerals for more than 40 years.
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But the Jebel Irhoud fossils display more primitive features than Apidima 1.
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He had worked as a diver, unearthing old shipwrecks and ancient fossils.
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But digital files of these fossils can overcome those challenges, Lindsey said.
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The fossils include Archaeopteris notosaria, an ancient tree from the Devonian period.
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The fossils come from an archaeological site in Morocco, called Jebel Irhoud.
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If there's one concretion with fossils inside, there's got to be more.
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Because pterosaurs had thin bones, optimized for flight, not many fossils remain.
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Paleontologists discovered the fossils near the Rukwa Rift Basin in southwestern Tanzania.
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Why, for instance, did Swayze maintain a collection of minerals and fossils?
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They are living fossils, and they're still going around doing their thing.
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"All of us are simply biologists who work on fossils," he added.
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Image: APHorseshoe crabs are known as "living fossils" and for good reason.
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The team attempted to extract DNA from the fossils, but were unsuccessful.
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She has begun to take an interest in natural philosophy, particularly fossils.
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Researchers used computer tomography to take cross-sections of the two fossils.
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Finding fossils in this area is a bit like panning for gold.
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Some of the fossils kept at the University of Texas at Austin.
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For fossils like this to emerge, however, a rapid burial is required.
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Originally, those fossils were thought to be from a different time period.
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The fossils were given to Richard Owen, a British paleontologist, to study.
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Curators used laser technology to scan the fossils and make digital blueprints.
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Some of the fossils were immediately identifiable as coprolites, or fossilized poop.
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What's more, archaeologists think there could be more fossils in the area.
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Starting in 2004, the researchers chiseled fossils out of the cementlike rock.
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Fossils and the doubt they cast on the Biblical story of creation.
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Geologists say these fossils, found in Greenland, are 3.7 billion years old.
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That makes the fossils older, but not that much older, relatively speaking.
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These fossils belonged to three different individuals, two adults and one child.
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"But one thing was always missing: ancient human fossils," Dr. Groucutt said.
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One way to test that hypothesis would be to uncover earlier fossils.
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But the fossils contain DNA dating back tens of thousands of years.
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Dr. Hansen found about 180 fossils near a pond on the atoll.
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Until now, those fossils have been the oldest clear evidence of fungi.
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Researchers have found fossils of hominins dating back over six million years.
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Until now, the earliest Australopithecus anamensis fossils were 3.9 million years old.
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From fossils, scientists have been able to reconstruct entire genomes of Neanderthals.
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Studying disease in fossils, independent of the species, is a complicated task.
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The researchers were looking for archaeological evidence of plant fossils and deposits.
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He gave her team permission to hunt for fossils on his property.
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When those reptiles died, fossils show that marine scavengers happily devoured them.
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Later, they found DNA from fossils in a Siberian cave called Denisova.
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The oldest fossils of Homo sapiens date back 300,000 years, in Morocco.
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Some of the newly discovered mammal fossils belong to these three groups.
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Unlike with dinosaurs, the horse's bones were dehydrated and not yet fossils.
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But a few fossils and isolated artifacts don't tell the whole story.
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The fossils include parts of the skull, backbone, limbs, hips and teeth.
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But let's talk about how the ingenuity of "Fossils" might affect yours.
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He loved water and began his career studying ocean sediments and fossils.
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Players can find four different fossils types, each representing a different animal.
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New dating techniques, as well new fossils, helped make this timeline possible.
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Scientists haven't had much luck digging up and documenting fossils in Africa.
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The fossils include legs, neck, a rib and part of the wings.
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Some experts doubted that microscopic fossils could have survived such a baking.
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They were scientific reconstructions, extrapolated by artists from casts of actual fossils.
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The Malapa fossils showed an odd mixture of primitive and modern traits.
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While fossils tell us a great deal, they don't reveal every detail.
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The museum next spring will unveil the fiberglass Patagotitan skeleton, which is being cast from fossils of seven Patagotitan individuals, and for two years will display some of the genuine fossils, including an 8-foot (2.4 meter) thighbone.
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In fact, the authors write, if techno-fossils were classified the same way normal fossils are—based on their shape, form and texture—there are probably a billion or more types, vastly outnumbering the number of species alive today.
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The fossils themselves are described by a group led by Jean-Jacques Hublin.
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Still, wandering alone among fossils of giant extinct fish has its own charm.
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Specifically, in the Great Rift Valley where you get all these hominin fossils.
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The remains also could contain the holy grail of all dinosaur fossils: DNA.
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Bird fossils from that time period seem only to consist of ground-dwellers.
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Fossils from the Ediacaran Period, sometimes called the Vendian Period, are exceptionally rare.
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That discovery was, at the time, the record for the planet's oldest fossils.
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In 2016, scientists announced they'd discovered fossils there dating back 3.7 billion years.
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How many of our fossils will be discoverable in 55 million years time?
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But in some unusual cases, their behavior can be directly recorded as fossils.
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Fossils discovered in Greenland are 220 million years older than others previously found.
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Finding new Teleocrater fossils to complement those described by Charig was all luck.
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Both fossils are on display at the Australian museum in Winton in Queensland.
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The rocks found in Greenland were the oldest fossils ever found on Earth.
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Many of the fossils were complete and even contained evidence of soft parts.
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That said, the paucity of fossils suggests they were relatively few in number.
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Excitingly, this new, non-destructive technique could be used to study other fossils.
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An effort to keep fossils in the ground, at least on federal land?
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For almost six decades, paleontologists were troubled by the bizarre Tullimonstrum gregarium fossils.
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The museum held mummies, dinosaur fossils, and a wealth of prehistoric Brazilian history.
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The specimens are locked up as fossils in amber millions of years old.
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Usually, amber fossils contain just small remnants of plant -- a petal, a stem.
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On Friday, Brooklyn indie rock band Beach Fossils released their new album, Somersault.
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To confirm today's study, scientists will have to find more fossils and tools.
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But it was where the fossils were found that was more intriguing still.
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The species was discovered using fossils found in Queensland's Riversleigh World Heritage Area.
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Read more:Divers found fossils of an ancient giant sloth hidden in a sinkhole.
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Since the discovery of Lucy, paleoanthropologists have found more fossils from Australopithecus afarensis.
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"People will think differently now when they are studying their fossils," he said.
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DePalma insists that he maintains "the best of both worlds" for his fossils.
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After plants became widespread on land, they left behind an abundance of fossils.
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A recent analysis of Dawson's collection of fossils and antiques revealed other forgeries.
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But he had an unerring sense of where the fossils ought to be.
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"She had seen us live," said Dustin Payseur, the founder of Beach Fossils.
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During initial project planning, shell fossils were noticed at the site, she said.
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Their well-preserved fossils have provided paleobiologists with insight into their prehistoric lives.
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"I'm always working to debunk the 'crocodilians are living fossils' myth," he said.
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We found artifacts and fossils in the cracked mud of dry lake beds.
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He knew that sometimes flecks like these turn out to be microscopic fossils.
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Three fossils produced a pattern that matches that of a substance called chitin.
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The oldest known plant fossils are no more than 470 million years old.
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The fossils also suggest that there were physical differences between males and females.
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In 2015, researchers unearthed 250,000-year-old fossils in a South African cave.
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The oldest fossils of Homo sapiens, found in Morocco, are 300,000 years old.
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MRD and Lucy together stand as watershed fossils for illuminating early human ancestors.
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Inside were more than 20 million items, including Egyptian mummies and dinosaur fossils.
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The new fossils from Dalian have weathered their billion-year existence more successfully.
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I'm nuts for fossils, and I have a healthy respect for poisonous snakes.
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Those genes were first discovered in 2010, in a study of Neanderthal fossils.
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He helped recover numerous fossils from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Utah.
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Previously, paleoecologists either visually examined fossils or ran molecular tests seeking specific genes.
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Follow local and federal laws — collecting fossils is largely prohibited on public land.
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Two spelunkers accidentally stumbled across the Homo naledi fossils in a hidden cave.
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The area has been coughing up fossils since the beginning of recorded time.
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Until then, we know the Denisovans by only a handful of fragmented fossils.
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The oldest Homo erectus fossils on Java date to 1.7 million years ago.
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The nearest modern human fossils were found about 621 miles from the cave.
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Altogether, the fossils suggested a deft climber who also walked on two legs.
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The fossils of a previously unknown human relative were discovered in a cave.
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The story these fossils tell is one we can instantly imagine and understand.
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Until the discovery of these fossils, everything researchers knew about Devonian tetrapods relied on nearly complete fossils from Ichthyostega and Acanthostega that lived at the end of the Devonian period 360 million years ago, as well as pieces of other species.
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New fossils of the jaws and teeth, collected from the same region of northwestern Madagascar where the first fossils were found, reveal that Razanandrongobe sakalavae—the "giant lizard ancestor from Sakalava region"—was actually a relative of today's crocodiles and alligators.
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The response: The authors say those prior studies are limited though because they either did not date the fossils directly (instead they tested associated layers of sediments and artifacts) or were unable to directly prove their fossils were Homo sapiens.
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This isn't unusual because fossils are in the ground along with radioactive elements found in soil and rocks, making some dinosaur fossils radioactive enough to be picked up by sensitive instruments, according to researchers at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
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Tip "Just scrape the ground in central Texas and you'll expose fossils," says Linda McCall, 62, an avocational paleontologist who has donated hundreds of thousands of mostly mollusk and other invertebrate fossils to the University of Texas and other public collections.
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He searched for something akin to viral fossils inside the DNA of their hosts.
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Fossils of dicynodonts have been uncovered in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
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But last year researchers found human fossils in Morocco dating to 260,2000 years ago.
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Quite possibly yes—but we won't know for sure until more fossils are recovered.
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EARLY HUMAN fossils are so rare that each new discovery may rewrite the textbooks.
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"It is often important to examine fossils with a very critical eye," said Sachs.
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In recent years, fossils in ancient rock bolstered the zircons' story of calmer climes.
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This has implications that there is hope of identifying pigments in many other fossils.
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The very well-preserved fossils provide important clues about how diverse prehistoric mammals were.
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Lyson specializes in studying reptiles, but many of their finds were fossils of mammals.
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Similar tests allow scientists to study DNA from fossils dating back thousands of years.
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Set in 1876, the book is about rival paleontologists hunting for fossils and glory.
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The fossils will require extensive study to determine what sorts of lives they led.
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Researchers have found other fossils of her species with similar fractures, suggesting more falls.
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These specific fossils are all relatively recent, from tens of thousands of years ago.
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Footprints and fossils, for example, can't tell us whether a dino strode or strutted.
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They both love fossils — they are fascinated by them, they want to study them.
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Using several dating techniques, the researchers say the fossils are about 700,000 years old.
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This clearly links the fossils found at the Piltdown 1 and Piltdown 2 sites.
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We can clearly see that they are rail fossils, and that they were flightless.
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The researchers who found the fossils were actually looking for evidence of ancient apes.
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She eyeballed specimens of known Strychnos and compare them with the photos of fossils.
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The museum will have a few fossils on display, but for a limited time.
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Some museums are buying fossils discreetly from dealers, rather than pay for expensive digs.
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Finding small pterosaur fossils is even rarer, because smaller animals are harder to find.
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Relatively few pterosaur fossils are preserved because of the animal's fragile, thin-walled bones.
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The ankylosaurid fossils associated with North America had smooth bony armor on their skulls.
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Read More: Divers found fossils of an ancient giant sloth hidden in a sinkhole.
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Regardless, the newly discovered crane fly fossils are noteworthy for their incredible detail alone.
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In June 2017, fossils were uncovered in Morocco that dated over 300,000 years old.
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The record setting fossils reportedly from the food of a sauropod, thankfully, a herbivore.
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But the oldest tetrapod fossils found so far date only to 375 million years.
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Fragments of fossils belonging to this fish were initially found in Quebec in 1938.
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As the scientists searched in more fossils for Neanderthal DNA, they got another surprise.
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They were first discovered in 1854 as fossils in 50-million-year-old amber.
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The youngest Homo erectus fossils, discovered in Indonesia, may be just 2000,000 years old.
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When he looked at them under a microscope, he saw hundreds of tiny fossils.
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Scientists have been recovering genomes from ancient human fossils for just over a decade.
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The researchers used advanced, high-resolution CT scans to analyze the dinosaur tail fossils.
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The fossils represent some of the oldest evidence of collective synchronized behavior in animals.
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Speaking of fossils with wow factor, take a deep breath and look at this.
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Some fossils were spheres containing a pair of cells, or four cells, or more.
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This fossil from southern Africa is also similar to fossils found in South America.
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He and his colleagues have already started looking for hepatitis B in Neanderthal fossils.
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Fossils of possible older single-celled green plants are still a matter of debate.
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The fossils were found in the remote area during excavations from 2006 to 2011.
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Trilobites The 13,000-year-old prints fill in gaps left by fossils and artifacts.
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THE DINOSAUR ARTIST: Obsession, Science and the Global Quest for Fossils, by Paige Williams.
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These fossils are some of the most valuable in the world, according to researchers.
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"Two fossils together could give us an idea of predator-prey relationships," he said.
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From these fossils, they found that as these animals evolved, they got progressively bigger.
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Their fossils were found with preserved shells and sea urchin spines in their guts.
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The clue in volcanic ash One of the big challenges is dating the fossils.
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The team is also hoping to compare these polar forests with "younger" tree fossils.
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After discovering mitochondrial DNA in some fossils, they later managed to find nuclear DNA.
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Ikaria's fossils were associated with thousands of burrows previously found in South Australia state.
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Today's player laughs at such conditions, and looks at landlines as if they are fossils.
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Comparing fragments of bones offers a unique challenge to paleontologists hoping to identify such fossils.
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More work—and more fossils—are needed to elucidate the history of archaic hominin admixture.
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Rather, the fossils left behind are evidence of the climate those plants once lived in.
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The fossils are detailed in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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But for 20 years, the fossils' significance as an evolutionary stepping stone remained a secret.
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Between 1998 and 2006, the fossils were stored at the Arizona Museum of Natural History.
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The new results might even require a re-orientation of some models of the fossils.
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The "living fossils," as Charrière calls them, will survive as long as electrical power remains.
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Fossils dating back 800,000 years, in fact, show evidence of cannibalism by our Homo ancestors.
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Fossils of newly discovered Ingentia prima (which means "great cousin") have been unearthed in Argentina.
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But otter evolution is not well understood, with fossils rare and scattered around the world.
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See, this site wasn't just catnip for the paleontologists, the diggers who study all fossils.
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Lingwulong fossils are shown partially exposed here in one of the four Chinese dig sites.
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Inferring behaviors from fossils is a precarious exercise, so these are, at best, educated guesses.
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So far, they have uncovered more than 1,000 vertebrate fossils and 16 different mammal species.
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"Our team is now moving on to the genetics of cockroaches and other living fossils."
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Pterosaur fossils are rare in Australia, making this only the third species to be named.
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The fossil was found in the Winton Formation, layers of rock rich with dinosaur fossils.
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This seems unlikely since there are plenty of fossils from similar species with surviving shells.
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Southeastern Utah's dramatic landscapes are rich in Native American artifacts, historical sites and dinosaur fossils.
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Also setting the Qingjiang site apart from the others is its collection of larval fossils.
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This can be seen from the distribution in their fossils of pigment particles called melanosomes.
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Fossils that researchers believed were male could turn out to be female, and vice versa.
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Galactic fossils like globular clusters are timestamps pointing back to when the galaxies initially formed.
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The rainless skies both preserve many fossils and artifacts and make it ideal for stargazing.
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If you Venn diagram this entire thing, the center of that diagram would be fossils.
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And scientists rightly worry that if fossils aren't protected that they'll have nothing to study.
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The fossils were found four years ago but not publicized by the team of geologists.
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Ancient rocks found in northwestern Quebec contain microbial fossils dating back 3.77 billion years ago.
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When asked whether she has a favorite fossil, Amati responded, "I love all fossils, equally."
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Fossils of blood-sucking bugs from the time of the dinosaurs had been discovered before.
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Prior to this discovery, the oldest known plant-like fossils were 1.2 billion years old.
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Trilobite fossils appear all over the world, including in gift shops of natural history museums.
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The hyena fossils were recovered in the 123s and tentatively classified as belonging to hyenas.
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As an interesting aside, paleontologists have noticed substantial size variations among the T. rex fossils.
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In another box, they'll get to create their own dinosaur fossils, which is too cool.
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The researchers used a CT scanner to analyze the fossils without having to damage them.
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India in particular has presented a difficult case as fossils are hard to come by.
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Sue is named for the woman who discovered the fossils in South Dakota in 1990.
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Carbon dating was used to determine the ages of the fossils, which included five children.
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In the chamber the scientists say they found more fossils and a beautifully complete skull.
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You'll find rocks and fossils, Elvis platinum records, vintage lunchboxes, and just about everything else.
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That's why Brusatte hopes to find more tyrannosaur fossils that can fit into that period.
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The findings are especially notable because the fossils used in the study are incredibly old.
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Dr. Nutman said there was a "diminishing probability" that older fossils will ever be found.
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Many animal fossils have been found with the stomach contents intact, for example whole fish.
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They did not discover feather fossils, but suspect Moros had feathers, as did many dinosaurs.
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In addition to studying the virtual models, Dr. Kappelman examined the original fossils in Ethiopia.
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And, they said, dog fossils from Europe dating to 15,000 years ago predated known migrations.
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He quickly squirted them with PaleoBond, which soaked into the fossils and held them together.
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And although no fossils of its prey have been found, it most likely ate shrimp.
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Fossils of a dinosaur that looks a lot like a "Ghostbusters" monster have been found.
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Researchers found a site with distinctive stone tool assemblage including grinding stones but no fossils.
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In Dmanisi, Georgia, scientists uncovered remarkably ancient fossils, some as old as 2.13 million years.
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There are shells, fish fossils, pine cones and a prehistoric blade made out of flint.
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Dr. Field noted that modern bird fossils from before the asteroid impact are extremely rare.
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Dr. Field noted that modern bird fossils from before the asteroid impact are extremely rare.
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One way to resolve this question would be to find human fossils from that period.
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The findings frequently are driven by the discoveries of many fossils of smaller tyrannosaurs worldwide.
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Mr. Detrich, who said he is in his 70s, began hunting fossils three decades ago.
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