How to use in-sentence of “fossil”:
+ The combination of continental drift and evolution can explain what is found in the fossil record.
+ Each of these was divided into living and fossil barnacles.
+ It was only partly prepared at the time of purchase; the feathers were not showing, and the fossil bore no signs of forgery.
+ The fossil waterfowl from the Eocene of England.
+ In 2008 Australia returned hundreds of kilograms of Chinese dinosaur fossils, including dinosaur fossil eggs.
+ Most air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels.
+ This has a mission to “collect, preserve, research and interpret palaeontological history with special reference to Alberta’s fossil heritage”.
+ The family Chinchillidae contains the chinchillas, viscachas, and their fossil relatives.
Example sentences of “fossil”:
+ There are about 100 to 350 species living; the fossil species number 12,000.
+ The oldest known “Homo” fossil is 2.8 million years old compared to the 3.3 million year old stone tools.
+ He argued that the dark, banded stains on the tail were too evenly spaced to have been caused by random separation of the fossil slabs, and that they represent fossilized pigments present in the feathers.
+ This new fossil supports the idea that these dinosaurs did not have scaly, reptile-like skin, but had a softer, downy coat.
+ The Hell Creek Formation is a formation series of rocks where fossil dinosaurs are found.
+ Hydropower produces essentially no carbon dioxide or other harmful emissions, in contrast to burning fossil fuels, and is not a significant contributor to global warming through CO.
+ She was expert on fossil ferns, cycads and gymnosperms.
+ It is based on fossil skulls and jaws found in Dmanisi, Georgia Georgia in 1999 and 2001, which seem intermediate between “H.
+ Countries could venture into nuclear energy production to help meet the rising energy demand, to help conserve the environment by avoiding air pollution, and also as a long lasting replacement for the depleting fossil fuels sources of energy, but would have to ensure the ongoing safety of production and waste storage.
+ There are about 100 to 350 species living; the fossil species number 12,000.
+ The oldest known "Homo" fossil is 2.8 million years old compared to the 3.3 million year old stone tools.
+ He argued that the dark, banded stains on the tail were too evenly spaced to have been caused by random separation of the fossil slabs, and that they represent fossilized pigments present in the feathers.
+ In 2014, a dinosaur building was opened outside, in which people can experience digging fossil as they look at the remains.
+ Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
+ A recent examination of two fossil species from the Eocene shows “the assembly of the flatfish bodyplan occurred in a gradual, stepwise fashion”.Friedman, Matt 2008.
+ It is about Fossil Creek, a tributary of the Smoky Hill River, goes just south of the city.
+ However, Lower Triassic fossil footprints reported in 2010 from Poland may belong to a still more primitive type.
+ An Eocene fossil lineage “Telecrex” has been associated with guineafowl; “Telecrex” inhabited Mongolia, and may have given rise to the oldest of the true Phasianidaephasianids, such as eared pheasants, which evolved into high-altitude, montane-adapted species with the rise of the Tibetan Plateau.
+ Soon the museum commissioned Knight to produce a series of watercolors for their fossil halls.
More in-sentence examples of “fossil”:
+ Chapter 3: The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians: Introduction.
+ Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous.
+ Giant sequoia are much more recent in the fossil record, appearing 25 million years ago.
+ He compared the first fossil bird, “Archaeopteryx”, with a small theropod dinosaur, “Compsognathus”.
+ Do species populations really start small? New perspectives from the Late Neogene fossil record of African mammals.
+ In a single phase engine, the fossil fuels are burned to heat up a gas, which then expands and creates motion.
+ For the next five years, the fossil waited at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh while researchers focused on other projects.
+ The Yixian and Jiufotang Formations are “Lagerstatten”, meaning that they have exceptionally good conditions for fossil preservation.
+ You can also specify “earliest” and “latest” to add a “ghost” bar beyond the accepted fossil range.
+ At the nearby Boneyard, children can play in a multi-leveled playground area with a mammoth fossil to be uncovered.
+ Hydroelectric power can be far less expensive than electricity generated from fossil fuel or nuclear energy.
+ The extinct genus “Yalkaparidon” is a bizarre fossil found in the Oligocene/Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, NE Australia.
+ A single fossil was found in East Kirton quarry, West Lothian, Scotland, in early Carboniferous rocks.
+ Subsequently, the fossil record—again mainly from Europe—consists of bones clearly recognisable as belonging to parrots of modern type.
+ Very common trace fossils are dinosaur animal trackstrackways and fossil burrows of worm-like creatures in ancient sea floors.
+ Genetic studies and fossil evidence show that archaic “Homo sapiens” evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa between 200,000 and 60,000 years ago.
+ While “Jurassic Park III” attempted to address this last oversight by adding quill-like structures around the head of some of its dromaeosaurs, they did not resemble the structure or distribution of actual dromaeosaurid feathers known from fossil remains.
+ The widespread remains mean a much earlier origin, and molecular clock dates suggest that primates evolved more than 80–90 mya, nearly 40 million years before they appear in the fossil record.
+ Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is one of the world’s greatest fossil sites.
+ The Trituberculata is an extinct group of mammals in the fossil record from about 215–85 illion years ago.
+ Complete sauropod fossil finds are rare.
+ Claim over ‘human ancestor’ sparks furore: researchers dispute that hominin fossil is a new species.
+ There are many more fossil species.
+ This is a fossil discovery of about 40% of the skeleton of a female “Australopithecus afarensis”.
+ The genus “Ichthyosaurus” was first described in 1699 from fossil fragments discovered in Wales.
+ The earliest fossil mosquito, in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.
+ There are nearly 7,000 species and subspecies for the fossil and recent Pectinidae.
+ The Blue Lias rock is host to a multitude of remains from the early Jurassic, a time from which good fossil records are rare.
+ Because trolleybuses do not usually have engines which burn diesel fueldiesel or other fossil fuels, they are much cleaner and quieter than “normal” buses.
+ In 2007, a 15km length of the coast comprising the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was nominated by Canada to UNESCO as a natural World Heritage Site.
+ The dramatic coastal exposure of the Coal Age rocks, known as the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, are continually hewn and freshly exposed by the actions of the tides in the Cumberland Basin.
+ All of these fossils are found in the well-preserved and easily dated Siwalik fossil beds of Pakistan.
+ Intact fossils of the Middle Devonian cladoxylopsid “Wattieza” show it was a tree, the earliest known in the fossil record as of 2007.
+ The oldest was the fossil of a dinosaur fish, called an Ichthyosaur.
+ There is a video theater, fossil prep lab area, and a gift shop.
+ It is a tiny theropod fossil found in Cretaceous limestone in southern Italy near Naples.
+ Some of the greatest fossil discoveries were made in this area.
+ If a novelty were to evolve gradually in an animal’s juvenile form, then its development might not appear in the fossil record at all, but if the species were then to undergo neoteny, in which sexual maturity is reached while in a juvenile form, then the feature would appear suddenly in the fossil record, despite having evolved gradually.
+ He bought two units and used the one next door as a paleo-lab for his fossil collection.
+ This covers most of the animals know to us only by the fossil record.
+ That early bats had long tails was predicted by John Maynard Smith before any fossil early bats were found.
+ Trackways are preserved at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs.
+ The Bone Wars was a period of fossil finding and discovery in the U.S.A during the late 19th century.
+ Two specimens from Queensland, Australia are fossil bone fragments clearly recognizable as passeriform.
+ They come from mineral and fossil sources or are produced by humans themselves.
+ Chapter 3: The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians: Introduction.
+ Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous.