A fossil is the remains or trace of an ancient living thing. Fossils of animals, plants, or protists occur in sedimentary rock. In a typical fossil, the...

Fossil fuels are fuels that come from old life forms that decomposed over a long period of time. The three most important fossil fuels are coal, petroleum...

Trace fossils (or ichnofossils) are geological records of biological activity. They are fossils, but not of the living things themselves. Probably the...

Living fossil refers to life forms which have survived with little change for a long time, and which are still around today. Horseshoe crabs are a typical...

Transitional fossils (or missing links) are the fossilised remains of lifeforms that show features typical of two distinct groups. It may be a rare fossil, such...

Fossil Mammal Sites is the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Queensland and South Australia. The UNESCO listing is for two separate areas where fossils from...

The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene collection of fossils between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old. It is near the town of Gray in Washington County...

for its fossils dating to the Pennsylvanian 'Coal Age' of Earth history. On July 7, 2008 a 15 km length of the coast comprising the Joggins Fossil Cliffs...

The Tanis fossil site has a unique place in Earth history. It preserves a record of what happened when the asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago....

Riversleigh in north west Queensland, Australia, is one of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The other is the...

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. The museum is...

The Zhucheng fossil site is in Zhucheng, a city in the Shandong Province of China. It is perhaps the greatest treasury of dinosaur fossils found in the...

have a state fossil. Many times these were selected in the 1980s. Some states do not have a state fossil. "Official State of Alabama Fossil". Alabama Emblems...

Fossil is a city in and the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States. "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved...

symbols. The Ice Age bamboo fossil from Manipur (ꯃꯅꯤꯄꯨꯔꯒꯤ ꯎꯟꯒꯤ ꯃꯇꯝꯒꯤ ꯋꯥ ꯄꯥꯝꯕꯤꯒꯤ ꯂꯤꯔꯕ ꯑꯔꯦꯝꯕ ꯁꯔꯨꯛ) is a 37,000-year-old fossil bamboo stem specimen discovered...

Fossil water or palaeowater is an ancient body of water that has been kept in an undisturbed place. Usually it is groundwater in an aquifer. It may stay...

A fossil-fuel power station is a power station that makes electricity by burning certain fuels. Its machines change the heat energy that comes from burning...

Index fossils are the remains of animals that died long ago, and are used to tell when a certain layer is. Index fossils tend to be fossils of species...

stromatolites are the first fossils, 3,450 million years ago (mya) in the Archaean eon. The remarkable precision is possible because the fossils were sandwiched between...

Fuel can be divided into two main types: fossil fuels and other fuels. There are several kinds of fossil fuels: coal oil and products that are refined...

Palæontology or paleontology is the study of fossils of living things, and their phylogeny (evolutionary relationships). It depends on basic sciences...

State terrestrial fossil is the woolly mammoth of Mount Holly, state marine fossil is the beluga whale of Charlotte: Vermont State Fossil - Mount Holly Mammoth...

A fossil word is a word that isn't used anymore except in one idiom or phrase. fro in "to and fro" helter skelter riddance in "good riddance" shebang in...

early 19th-century British fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist. She earned her living finding and preparing fossils, in the rich Jurassic marine...

carbonate minerals for shells, so they had hard parts which could become fossils. There were many different kinds of life during the Cambrian period. This...

have used the term in several different ways. It has even been used for fossils of early amphibians. It is best used for animals which lay cleidoic eggs...

vertebrates) and their more fish like relatives. Advanced transitional fossils between fish and the early labyrinthodonts, like Tiktaalik, are informally...

exceptional fossil preservation. Adolf Seilacher coined the term in 1970 to describe sites, like Solnhofen, which yielded the most exceptional fossils. Extra-special...

period that produced fossils on land that are macroscopic. That means you can see them without using a microscope. These fossils are moss forests along...

world's most celebrated fossil sites, the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. It is ~505 million...

fossil site (Georgian: ქვაბები) is a archaeological locality in eastern Georgia's Iori Plateau area. It contained a 3-million-year-old animal fossil collection...

the fossil record. It happened 541 million years ago (mya). Probably most had evolved before then, but that was their first appearance as fossils. Before...

Denver. The Dinosaur Ridge area is one of the world's most famous dinosaur fossil localities. In 1877, some of the best-known dinosaurs were found here, including...

Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is one of the world's greatest fossil sites. It is part of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Canada. Mistaken Point was so...

study plant fossils from the past. Paleobotany is also about trying to understand past environments and the history of agriculture. Fossil pollen and spores...

Germany. It is a site where fine fossils are preserved: a lagerstätte. The site is very important: it includes fossils of early mammals, including early...

around it. Fossils from these strata in Scotland were collected since the 18th century, and Louis Agassiz wrote the first survey of fossil fish. A century...

Fossilworks was a database for fossils (palaeontology). Its website which allows users to search and download information from its database. The content...

as state's official fossil / LJWorld.com". "State Fossils - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society". "List of State Fossils - FossilEra". "Kansas Rep. Tom...

area was declared a national park because of its extraordinarily extensive fossil finds and classified together with Riversleigh in Queensland as a UNESCO...

(mya) to 2,500 mya. It contains the first sedimentary rocks, and the first fossil life forms, which were cyanobacteria, and acritarchs. Most of the rocks...

a 50-million-year-old fossil fish which has been identified as an early relative of the flatfish, and as a transitional fossil. In Amphistium, the transition...

ago. He compared the first fossil bird, Archaeopteryx, with a small theropod dinosaur, Compsognathus. They are two fossils from the same place and time:...

floor, but some swam in the jet-propulsion style of scallops. Brachiopod fossils have been useful indicators of climate changes during the Paleozoic era...

"continued throughout the evolution of maniraptorans and early birds". A few fossil traces of the Coelurosauria date back as far as the Upper Triassic. A possible...

April 12, 1897) was an American biologist. He was notable for his work on fossil animals of North America. Cope was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cope...

problematicus ("leeds fish") was a giant fish of the Jurassic period. Its fossils were first found in England. It was a pachycormid, a group of extinct ray-finned...

Small shelly fossils (SSF), or small shelly fauna, are tiny fossils, many only a few millimetres long. They have a record from the latest stages of the...

is the world's most famous fossil site. It is a lagerstätte of Upper Jurassic limestone which has preserved many fossils in great detail. The specimens...

the Mesozoic era, and include 20,000 living species. The oldest teleost fossils date back to the late Triassic. They evolved from fish like bowfins in...

census, the county has a population of 1,451 people. The county seat is Fossil. It is the smallest county by population in Oregon. "QuickFacts: Wheeler...

leading paleontologists of the 19th century. He discovered and named many fossils found in western North America. Marsh was born in Lockport, New York, into...

North Sea oil reserves, and the whole epoch is stuffed full of marine fossils. Many dinosaur remains have also been found. The epoch starts with the...

"Strata Smith", made the first geological map of England. He understood that fossils could be used identify the same strata in different places. He took samples...

The cladoxylopsids are a group of plants known only as fossils that may be ancestors of ferns and horsetails. They had a central trunk, from the top of...

Yu, X.; Miao, D. (eds.). Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes. Pfeil. pp. 389–416. ISBN 978-3-89937-122-2. Swartz, B. (2012). "A...

Rhynia is a genus of Early Devonian fossil land plants. Only one species is known, R. gwynne-vaughanii. The fossils are the sporophyte generation of a...

Platyhelminthes (20,000+ species) Mollusca (85,000+ species) Brachiopoda (5,000 fossil species) Rhombozoa Platyzoa Minor phyla (like Chaetognatha) Numbers are...

period. This geological period was from 635–542 million years ago, but the fossil biota was only from 575–542 million years ago. This was after a series of...

began to form. Fossil steroids suggest the presence of early sponges, and amoeboid cells with tests (coverings) appear in the fossil record. This short...

first fossil fish to be discovered. They were found in the 1830s in the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. The genus Cephalaspis is quite a common fossil in...

species. Most are marine, but many live in freshwater or on land. Their fossil record goes back to the later Cambrian period. Slugs and snails, abalones...

the Lepidosauria: lizards, snakes, and the tuatara. The most important fossil group, the Sauropterygia, includes the plesiosaurs. Subclass Diapsida Infraclass...

ecosystem which left fossils in the Yixian Formation, some 125–121 mya, and the Jiufotang Formation. It is also believed to have left fossils in the Sinuiju...

for the first larger-bodied fossils, which are probably the first recorded animals. These were impressions or trace fossils, first found in England's Charnwood...

are several groups of extinct seed plants (spermatophytes). The oldest fossil evidence of plants of this type is from Upper Devonian strata. They flourished...

the main habitat. This is typical of transitional fossils undergoing mosaic evolution. Clear fossil tetrapod tracks from the mid-Devonian predate previous...

adapiformes looked similar to living lemurs. Adapiformes are known from the fossil record only, and it is unclear whether they form a monophyletic or paraphyletic...

The Bone Wars was a period of fossil finding and discovery in the U.S.A during the late 19th century. Most of the action took place in Colorado, Nebraska...

tugenensis fossil was found by Martin Pickford in the Tugen Hills of Kenya. The name tugenensis refers to this location. Later, additional fossils were found...

first known appearance of the Murinae in the fossil record is about 14 million years ago with the fossil genus Antemus. Progonomys is thought to be the...

fell in, sank in the tar, and died. In the tar, their bones turned into fossils. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and...

that carbon gets into the carbon cycle are volcanoes, and the burning of fossil fuels like coal and gas. Through most of history, volcanoes were the biggest...

of the Mesozoic era. Over 500 different genera of dinosaurs are known. Fossils of dinosaurs have been found on every continent. Dinosaurs evolved in the...

intermountain lakes. Its fine fossils make this a lagerstätte, a place of exceptional preservation. The various fossil beds of the Green River Formation...

suggests that one fifth of plant species may be at risk of extinction. Fossil species sometimes reappear millions of years after they were thought to...

noted for its badland topography. The park is one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world. Forty dinosaur species have been discovered at the...

the fossil record early in the Middle Triassic about 245 million years ago (mya), with the dinosaur-like Asilisaurus. However, Lower Triassic fossil footprints...

first A. afarensis fossils were found. Together, Australopithecus afarensis means "southern ape from Afar." A. afarensis fossils proved that human ancestors...

order of marine reptiles from the Mesozoic era. The earliest ichthyosaur fossils are from the early Triassic of 250 million years ago, just after the Permian...

Panderichthys, known from fossils 380 million years old, and early tetrapods such as Acanthostega and Ichthyostega, known from fossils about 365 million years...

Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Fossil barnacles. 1854: A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ...

mother') is an early fossil eutherian mammal. It is exceptionally well preserved for a 125 million-year-old specimen. The fossil was discovered in rocks...

(fossil) Genus Nardovelifer (fossil) Genus Palaeocentrotus (fossil) Genus Veronavelifer (fossil) Genus Oechsleria (fossil) Genus Wettonius (fossil) Genus...

remains of Tyrannosaurus rex. His career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working in the late Victorian era and the early 20th century. He...

Quetzalcoatlus had a wing-span of up to 12 metres (~40 feet). The first fossils occur in the Upper Triassic, and the group continued until the K/T extinction...

different life from a dolphin or porpoise catching fish in the sea. The fossil record of animals goes back about 600 million years to the Ediacaran period...

an oogenus of crocodile egg fossil. Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Emily S. Bray & Karl E. Hirsch (1996). "Parataxonomy of fossil egg remains (Veterovata): basic...

An ichnogenus is a trace fossil. The names are a category of taxonomy for fossil traces whose origin is not exactly known. They are a part of taxonomy...

(mineralogist) and the useful substances the rocks contain such as ores and fossil fuels. Geologists also study the history of the Earth. Some of the important...

most important recent dinosaur finds. It is a tiny theropod (meat-eater) fossil found in Cretaceous limestone in southern Italy near Naples. Although it...

since the early Ordovician period. Lingula is a good example of a living fossil. Like all brachiopods, it is a filter feeder. Brachiopods are superficially...

Belemnites were numerous during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and their fossils are abundant in Mesozoic marine rocks, often with their cousins the ammonites...

event. However, fossils that can be unequivocally assigned to the Neognathae, such as Vegavis and Asteriornis do not appear in the fossil record until the...

uncertain. Although the fossil record of their initial radiation across the Northern Hemisphere is very detailed, the fossil record from the tropics—where...

China. This new fossil supports the idea that these dinosaurs did not have scaly, reptile-like skin, but had a softer, downy coat. No fossil skin impressions...

all lived in the Late Miocene sub-epoch. The earliest Australopithecus fossils are from around 4.4 million years ago; the most recent are from around...

gophers (Geomyidae), the kangaroo rats and mice (Heteromyidae), and their fossil relatives. Although they do not look similar, gophers are joined with kangaroo...

group that includes fossil groups related to roaches, but not true cockroaches themselves. These earliest cockroach-like fossils ("Blattopterans" or "roachids")...

Labyrinthodont is a term which was used for fossil amphibia. Although it is no longer a formal term in taxonomy, it is still useful as an evolutionary...

was a high level of plant growth. Polar forests were quite extensive. Fossils and preserved remains of trees such as swamp cypress and dawn redwood from...

The first hominid fossils are from the Miocene period. Archaeologists found these in Asia and Europe. Also in Asia, they found fossils of a huge version...

one of the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found. Sue was discovered in the summer of 1990 by Sue Hendrickson...

The Santana Formation is a high quality fossil site in Brazil 115 to 108 million years ago (mya). It is in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It qualifies...

960 cheek teeth. Hadrosaurs lived during the later Cretaceous, and their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, and Asia.Riff the Hadrosaur on...

The Smoky Hill Chalk is an Upper Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil-rich geological formation. It is known for its exceptionally well-preserved...

Ctenophora. In paleontological registry there are also completely extinct fossil groups from Ediacaran and Cambrian that are currently ranked as phyla, based...

the Permian–Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago, and their fossils have a near global distribution. The typical eurypterid had a large, flat...

placoderm from the late Devonian period, about 380 million years ago. A fossil of this armored placoderm shows an embryo and umbilical cord inside its...

resources. It is different from fossil fuels as it does not produce as many greenhouse gases and other pollutants as fossil fuel combustion. People have...

Protoceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Mongolia. It was shown in a fossil being attacked by a Velociraptor. This short article about biology can be...

on the 'Jurassic Coast' of Dorset, England in the winter of 1820/21. The fossil was missing its skull, but in 1823 she found another one, this time complete...

late Devonian, about 365 million years ago. They did not appear in the fossil record until the Mesozoic, almost 200 million years later. A whole genome...

humans. Many important fossil localities exist in the Afar region. These sites have produced specimens of the earliest (fossil) hominins and of human...

border. It is nicknamed 'The Pearl of Dorset'. The town is noted for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Jurassic Coast–a...

recently discovered treasure-trove of fossils. This lagerstätte of Cambrian period fossils is in China. The fossil site is in Hubei Province near the Danshui...

cap-like shell and live on the bottom of the sea. They were well-known as a fossil group from the Cambrian to the Devonian. One species was dredged up from...

species Heliobatis radians. The fossil is found in the early Eocene, Wasatchian stage, Fossil Lake deposits. Fossil Lake is part of the Green River Formation...

European fossil record at the Eocene–Oligocene boundary (34 million years ago). This shows that the bees were present in Europe by that time. Few fossil deposits...

only one fossil. It was discovered in 1983 by an amateur at the Messel Pit. This is a disused shale quarry noted for its astonishing fossil preservation...

earlier than previously thought. Furthermore, its discovery fills gaps in the fossil record and helps to calibrate modern, DNA-based methods of dating the evolution...

ago (mya). Pederpes contains one species, P. finneyae, 1 m long. A single fossil was found in East Kirton quarry, West Lothian, Scotland, in early Carboniferous...

Several pieces of evidence are needed to show that a rock was used by a fossil animal to aid its digestion. First, the stone must be unlike the rock found...

Sahelanthropus tchadensis is a fossil hominid. From evidence at the fossil site in Chad in the African Sahel, it is thought to have lived about 7 million...

(plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. The term refers to the Gospel of John...

group including many familiar plants in a wide variety of habitats The fossil seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) were one of the earliest successful groups...

in exposed sites. These tall trees are living fossils, dating back to early in the Mesozoic era. Fossil records show that the genus also formerly occurred...

bone structure without damaging or destroying the fossil. Clarke J.A.et al 2005. Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous...

collector who searched for fossils of the coastline around Lyme Regis and discovered several complete Ichthyosaur fossils. The Jurassic Coast is made...

developed eyes, and arms (or tentacles). They were free-swimming. Almost any fossil-bearing limestone or shale from inland seas of the late Paleozoic tropics...

were recognized for research that has "laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society."". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 October 2019. This...

dinosaur tracks in some types of rock formations. These types of fossils are called trace fossils since they are a trace of an animal left behind rather than...

been found in the United States, Canada and Europe. The first Eurypterus fossil was discovered in 1818. "Eurypterus". Paleobiology Database. Archived from...

The earliest known life forms found on Earth are fossils of microorganisms in 3.46 billion year old rocks in Western Australia. Life forms, as microorganisms...

multicellular Francevillian Group Fossils, at 2.1-Gyr-old are from the Rhyacian period, as well as the enigmatic fossil Diskagma. Kopp; Kirschvink, JL;...

Saurexallopus (Pronunciation: Saw-ex-allo-pu) is an ichnogenus, which is a trace fossil of a footprint. What made the footprint is unknown although possibly it...

body was full of scales and fossils with 10 cm are very uncommon and unique. Another fossil Life Restoration Yet another fossil Palaeoniscum vratislavensis...

natural environment. Examples of natural resources are air, water, wood, fossil fuels, wind energy, ores, and food. The dividing line between natural resources...

and extinct kinds. The earliest fossil of a turtle was found in China from the early Upper Triassic age. The fossil was from about 220 million years...

oldest metatherian fossil known, estimated to be 125 million years old. This makes it almost contemporary to the earliest placental fossils, which have been...

were recognized for research that has "laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society."". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 October 2019. This...

birthplace and home of Mary Anning, the fossil hunter. Her family ran a shop here. The collections show fossils from the surrounding area dating from the...

Rougier, G. W.; Rowe, T. (2007). "Description of a Cranial Endocast from the Fossil Mammal Vincelestes neuquenianus (Theriiformes) and its Relevance to the...

Creek is a lagerstätte in northeast Illinois. It is a site of exceptional fossil preservation. It is from the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the Carboniferous...

best remembered for his expeditions to Egypt, where he found the first fossils of Spinosaurus. He also discovered the following Cretaceous dinosaurs in...

together at the Ghost Ranch fossil site in New Mexico. Two different sizes of this species have been found in the fossil record. At first paleontologists...

history, for example in plants and animals. The earliest forms of life in the fossil record are cyanobacteria from the Archaean era at 3.5 billion years ago...

Sigillaria is a lycopod fossil of the late Carboniferous and early Permian. They were typical coal forest trees similar to the Lepidodendron. These swamp...

early Devonian fossil land plants. Its fossils have been found in the Rhynie chert. Only the sporophyte generation have been found as fossils. Only one species...

ritchiei is a fossil monotreme species. It is known from an opalised teeth fragment, with one premolar and two molars in situ. The fossil was found al...

group of passerines. Europe is the origin of the first presumed parrot fossils, which date from about 50 million years ago (mya). The climate there and...

derived from earlier mammals than the marsupials and eutherians, but their fossil record is poor. The time at which the monotreme line diverged from other...

dinosaurs, known from one fossil specimen in Beijing. Epidexipteryx is the earliest known example of ornamental feathers in the fossil record. It is a small...

become stronger. This is because humans have been burning large amounts of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is a greenhouse...

Bitter Springs Group is a Precambrian fossil locality in Australia, which preserves microorganisms in silica. Bitter Springs type preservation ceased in...

lifeforms not in any phylum (although this may be circular logic) except in the fossil record. Botanists usually prefer the word division instead of phylum. List...

South Australia. Unfortunately, the fossil could not be identified any further than the family. A Queensland fossil of a species similar to Hadronomas...

comes from the Greek word palaios. Palaios means "ancient". The oldest fossil life forms are cyanobacteria found in strata 3.46 billion years old. These...

similar to certain types of modern mammals such as pigs and rhinoceros. Fossils discovered in Poland show that dicynodonts survived at least until about...

million years. Aurornis was described from a sedimentary rock fossil in 2013. The fossil was purchased from a local dealer who said it had been unearthed...

Man") is the scientific name given to a number of human fossil remains that are older than fossils of Neanderthals. Homo heidelbergensis is abbreviated H...

feathers. Fossils of Archaeopteryx include well-preserved feathers, but it was not until the early 1990s that clearly non-bird dinosaur fossils were discovered...

live young. This we know from fossil evidence. It was thought at first that Ichthyosaurus laid eggs on land, but fossil evidence shows that the females...

Dicraeosaurus fossil was discovered in 1914. Fossils of Dicraeosaurus have been found in the rocks of Tendaguru Hill in Tanzania. These rocks also have fossils of...

Devonian fossil land plants. Its fossils are very common in the Rhynie chert. Both the sporophyte and a female gametophyte have been found as fossils. The...

expected in open Ordovician waters. The non-mineralized (soft-bodied) fossils contains a range of forms familiar from the Burgess Shale. Other Ordovician...

Ephedra and Welwitschia. Gnetophyte fossils have been found that date from the Permian and the Triassic. Fossils dating back to the Jurassic have been...

Leedsichthys (a giant fossil fish) and a piece of the Barwell meteorite. The museum has a specimen of international importance, the Charnia fossil. This was the...

the fossil record about 250 million years ago. The suborder contains the only paedogenic beetles, Micromalthus debilis. These beetles are rare. Fossil deposits...

Gondwana broke off from Pangaea 100 million years ago. Early marsupial fossils have been found in Asia, from 125 million years ago. They were outcompeted...

to fossils of animals that died quickly. Young Earth Creationists also point to: Fossils that were buried quickly, as in Lagerstätten. One fossil Young...

after Morrison, Colorado. It has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and...

scientific agriculture Green Industrial Revolution, a shift from consuming fossil fuels to clean energy (Boris Johnson, June 2021, at a G7 meeting) The shift...

exceed 60 cm. It is a member of the extinct order Aspidorhynchiformes. Fossils of Vinctifer have been found in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, and Antarctica...

myriapod fossil, and the oldest known creature to have lived on land. The single specimen was discovered in 2004 near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. The fossil of...

specimen was found. Charnia is a highly significant fossil for several reasons. It is the first fossil ever described from undoubted Precambrian rocks. Until...

Velociraptor was warm blooded and had feathers. Fossils from China suggest that the whole clade had similar traits. Fossils of Velociraptor were first found in the...

erectus (Latin: "upright man") is an extinct species of the genus Homo. Fossil remains were found in Java (1890s) and in China (1921). Nearly all of them...

carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of West Africa. Its fossils look very similar to the ones from Baryonyx and Suchomimus. The first specimens...

(draft) fan Reheater Combustion air intake Induced draught (draft) fan Fossil fueled thermal power plants produce a large part of man-made CO2 emissions...

the Shire of Murweh in South-West Queensland Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh), a World Heritage listed fossil site in North-West Queensland...

of the Arabian Peninsula. History of Arabia Roberts, Patrick etc 2018. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment...

place in the lower (older) part of the Carboniferous, the Mississippian. Fossils of air-breathing insects myriapods and arachnids are known from the late...

bahrelghazali is a fossil australopithecine which was discovered in 1993 by the paleontologist Michel Brunet. Brunet found the fossil in the Bahr el Ghazal...

extinct group closely related to ducks and geese. Judging from numerous fossil findings, Presbyornis probably lived in colonies around shallow lakes. Its...

Trechnotheria is a group of mammals that includes the therians and some fossil mammals from the Mesozoic Era. In the Jurassic through Cretaceous periods...

mayor is currently Johann Roßkopf. In the 1980s part of a Archaeopteryx fossil was found in Daiting. It is known as the Daiting Specimen. Scientists believe...

Grypania is an early, tube-shaped fossil from the Proterozoic eon. It is regarded by some as the first known eukaryote. Grypania's status as a eukaryote...

Zhang Fucheng examined fossils with preserved melanosomes (organelles which contain colour pigments). By studying the fossils with an electron microscope...

Pelagornis is a genus of huge fossil birds. One species, P. sandersi, is one of the largest bird ever found. Its wingspan was twice that of the largest...

the state fossil of Idaho. Many fossils of it were found in the city of Hagerman, Idaho. USA, State Symbols (2014-10-02). "Idaho State Fossil | Hagerman...

Cainozoic has become quite different from the Mesozoic. Levin, Harold L. 2005. The Earth through time. 8th ed, Wiley, N.Y. Chapter 4: The fossil record....

many plastic products. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Natural gas. Fossil fuel Coal non-renewable resource Lebel, Eric D.; Finnegan, Colin J.; Ouyang...

largest clades in the eudicots. Rosids are very basic flowering plants. Fossil rosids are known from the Cretaceous period. Molecular clock estimates indicate...

Fossils of an important extinct hominid were found in the dried lakebed of Lake Chad. This was Sahelanthropus tchadensis. From evidence at the fossil...

Gansus was discovered in the form of a single fossil foot in 1981. Five more well-preserved fossils were found in 2003–2004 in mudstone at the site...

related to Afrovenator and its fossils were found in France It looked a lot like Eustreptospondylus. The type fossil was an individual that probably...

multicellular organisms. Their bodies were shaped like discs. Based on the fossils, they were between four millimetres and 1.4m in size. They were only a...

Harold L. 2005. The Earth through time. 8th ed, Wiley, N.Y. Chapter 4: The fossil record. or class, depending on how they are classified. Wooton R.J. 1990...

Monograph on the Fossil Lepadidae, or, Pedunculated Cirripedes of Great Britain. Fossil barnacles. 1854: A Monograph on the Fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ...

amateur fossil collector spotted the remains of this four-legged creature on the shore of Cheese Bay, Scotland. For the next five years, the fossil waited...

source of hominin fossils from the last 4.2 million years. Far exceeding the number of humanoid fossils are the non-humanoid fossils, which give us a look...

environmentalist. She is from Coney Island, New York City. She is the co-founder of "Fossil Free University" and "PollutersOut!". Siddiqa started her works when she...

Cope discovered another, more complete set of fossils in North America, and named them Diatryma. The fossil remains of these birds have been found in western-central...

be harmful to humans in the long-term range. They come from mineral and fossil sources or are produced by humans themselves. Many pollutants have a poisonous...

Tugen Hills of the Central Rift Valley of Kenya, which represent the first fossil record of an aplocheiloidei. A total of 169 specimens are mostly well-preserved...

The Taung Child is a fossil of a skull that includes an imprint of the brain. It belongs to an Australopithecus africanus and is about 2.5 million years...

responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Mantell's work on the...

fossil beds are found in badlands, where erosion rapidly exposes the sedimentary layers and the scant cover of vegetation makes surveying and fossil hunting...

large number of hominid fossils, including some of the oldest. Some date back as far as 3.5 million years ago. These fossils were found in the site's...

(Peroryctes'). Many fossils of modern bandicoots like Perameles and Isoodon have been found from the Pleistocene and Holocene times. But only a few fossil species...

Eohippus is small fossil proto-horse. It is an extinct genus of small equid ungulates. The only species is E. angustidens, which was long considered a...

plastid types; and the whole of their genetics and cell biology is eccentric. Fossil dinoflagellates are important in stratigraphy, the dating and correlation...

those fires. Many industrial power plants burn fossil fuels to get their energy. However, burning fossil fuels can make a lot of oxides (chemical compounds...

extremely common near the shore, and on reefs. They have a long and abundant fossil record. This phylum appeared in the early Cambrian period; it contains about...

by finding the same minerals and fossils in western Europe and eastern North America. There are also similar fossils on the western coast of Africa and...

The Florissant Fossil Formation is a lagerstätte in the Colarado part of the Rocky Mountains. It shows life in the Eocene in as-yet unraised part of what...

millipedes or early insects. Fossils of Hylonomus have been found in the remains of fossilized club moss stumps in Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia, Canada...

Archaeopteryx with a small theropod dinosaur, Compsognathus. Both of the fossils came from the same place: Solnhofen in Bavaria, Germany. The strata come...

with some 15,000 recent species in 450 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described. Akiyama K. & S. Ohmomo 2000. The Buprestid...

which contain the common octopus and some other types. Fossils are rare, but they do have a fossil record starting in the later Carboniferous. Octopods...

site of one of the world's great fossil discoveries. A road worker in 1956 found 360 million year old fish fossils. These were from the Devonian period...

unclear and debated. The main problem is a lack of clear transitional fossils. Molecular clock estimates suggest that lemurs and the lorisoids diverged...

Sanmiguelia is a genus of fossil plants. It may be among the earliest angiosperms. It was identified by imprints of palm-shaped leaves originating from...

to the archosaurs. They were herbivores, and at times abundant (in some fossil localities accounting for 40 to 60% of specimens found), with stocky bodies...

and species are widely agrees. The fossil record, particularly for piranhas, is relatively sparse. Most known fossils are from the Miocene. Two were in...

fixture in popular culture due to their large sizes. Complete sauropod fossil finds are rare. Many species, especially the largest, are known only from...

Carnivoramorpha. Wang, Xiaoming; Tedford, Richard H. (2008). Dogs: their fossil relatives and evolutionary history. Columbia University Press, New York...

(born c. 1940), a Kamba tribesman, is one of the world's most successful fossil collectors. With paleontologists Meave Leakey and Richard Leakey, he found...

Granjon, Laurent; Kergoat, Gael J. (November 2018). "Fossils know it best: using a new set of fossil calibrations to improve the temporal phylogenetic framework...

German-American paleontologist and the founder of paleoneurology. Tilly used fossil skulls to study the brains of extinct animals. She discovered that brain...

colonies usually have a skeleton of calcium carbonate. Bryozoans have a long fossil history, starting in the Ordovician. In their life-style they resemble the...

of converting fossil fuels into motion. Internal combustion engines do this by converting the energy created by an explosion of the fossil fuels, into motion...

of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Jurassic Coast. This includes famous fossil sites where Mary Anning collected, and famous landforms such as Chesil Beach...

Archaefructus is an extinct genus of herbaceous aquatic seed plants. Its fossils come from the Yixian Formation in northeastern China, about 125 million...

considered to be a living fossil. The earliest fossils of the genus Cycas appear in the Cainozoic, but Cycas-like fossils occur well into the Mesozoic...

back to the Lower or Middle Cambrian and include an important class of fossils called graptolites, most of which became extinct in the Carboniferous....

slim build, weighting 1000–2000 kg. Some fossils suggest a length of about 10 meters (33 feet), but these fossils are very fragmentary. It lived during the...

the name of the first fossil found that was clearly identified as a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis). Sometimes this fossil is also called Feldhofer...

is usually driven by a steam turbine. The steam may come from: Burning fossil fuels Nuclear power, using radioactive sources Using the earth's heat, called...

ancestor. Evidence on their evolution comes from comparative anatomy, the fossil record and molecular biology. It is thought that the first passerines evolved...

freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies, and divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and...

one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus. The name was given to fossils discovered in 1891 at Trinil on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in...

Tetragramma donaldtrumpi is a species of fossil sea urchins discovered and identified by William R. Thompson Jr. in 2016. The specimen locality is from...

analysis of fossil teeth shows that P. boisei probably had a varied diet and did not depend completely on tough or hard foods. Based on fossil skull sizes...

American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn. He based the proposal on the fossil record of mammals in Central America. Osborn's ideas were used by Alfred...

period, the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, about 372.2 mya. Almost all the fossil agnathan fishes suddenly disappeared. A second strong extinction closed...

fossils found in the Himachal Pradesh, India. It lived in the remnants of the ancient Tethys Ocean during the early Eocene. This extends the fossil record...

Pangaea had a limited shoreline. Because of this, Triassic marine deposits – fossils from Triassic ocean life – are rare in most of the world. In North America...

dated at five to eight million years ago, with Sahelanthropus as a key fossil. A less frequent usage includes the two species present-day of the genus...

not changed much since then, though fossils in this group are scarce. The Atlantic horseshoe crab itself has no fossil record at all, and the genus Limulus...

energy and biomass. Gasoline, coal, natural gas, diesel, plastics and other fossil fuels are not renewable. They take millions of years to be made, and cannot...

does evidence based on physical anthropology of fossil humans.[source?] According to genetic and fossil evidence, older versions of H. sapiens evolved...

any other pterosaur. It lived in the area of the Western Interior Seaway. Fossil Pteranodon have been found in Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South...

Scientists have learned a great deal about human evolution by studying fossils and artifacts found at Olduvai Gorge. The name is a misspelling of Oldupai...

Darwin, who contributed sections to two of the Parts: 1838: Part 1 No. 1 Fossil Mammalia, by Richard Owen (Preface and Geological introduction by Darwin)...

now usually a separate family or order. Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene fossil birds. Springer. p. 159. ISBN 978-3540896289. Retrieved 9 December 2013...

centimetres (7.9 in), and filamentous. The fossil was found in what is now northeastern China. Three fossils of Y. huali, were all found in the rock beds...

clandestine evolution, which helped to explain the sudden changes in the fossil record which were apparently at odds with Darwin's gradual theory of evolution...

sister group to crocodiles and birds, the living archosaurs. Squamate fossils first appear in the early Jurassic, but a mitochondrial phylogeny suggests...

Ichnology is the study of trace fossils of once-living things. Burrows, trackways, trails and borings are all examples of traces made by organisms. Scientists...

different strata contained different fossils.p108 3. The realization that early fossils were simpler organisms than later fossils. Also, the later the rocks, the...

protein, a hybrid protein made by the splicing of two genes Chimera (paleontology), a fossil put together with parts from different species Chimaera (fish)...

a human species, known from only one skull cap discovered in 1994. The fossil was discovered by archeologist Italo Biddittu and was nicknamed "Ceprano...

which are automatic planes. Fossil fuel-powered aircraft release soot and other pollutants into the atmosphere. They burn fossil fuel which releases CO2 emissions...

History. He was responsible for creating their catalog on their vertebrate fossil collections. Charles H. Smith. "Lydekker, Richard (England 1849-1915)"....

be defined by geography or countries. It has some of the earliest found fossils of humans. "Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49)"....

worked for much of his life in South Africa. In 1924 he discovered the first fossil of an Australopithecine, at Taung in Northwestern South Africa (now Botswana)...

Sue may mean: The act of filing a lawsuit Sue (dinosaur), the largest Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found...

Tribrachidium is a symmetric fossil animal. This short article about biology can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it....

of the most interesting and common fossils in Carboniferous shales and accompanying coal deposits. These fossils look much like tire tracks or alligator...

riverae Congo bay owl, P. prigoginei - sometimes placed in Tyto Fossil genera. The fossil record of the barn-owls goes back to the Eocene. Nocturnavis (Late...

about 500 genera and 3,400 species of snake. The earliest known snake fossils are from the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous periods. Scientists think...

their jawbones appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago, during the early Cretaceous. Definitively skink fossils appear later, during the Miocene...

monophyletic group; they are a sister group to the Tuatara. Judged by their fossil record, the Squamates were present in the Mesozoic, but occupied a minor...

prehistoric pachycormiform. It is known from three species found in Late Jurassic fossil deposits in Bavaria, Germany. This fish had a pointed rostrum, consisting...

and probably a sucking organ. The mouthparts match the signs of damage in fossil plant leaves and stems. In addition to the normal four wings, they had two...

Megalodon belongs to a lineage of chronospecies, which have evolved over time. Fossil records of O. megalodon indicate that it occurred in deep to tropical latitudes...

Lower Triassic, they were the most common terrestrial vertebrates. In some fossil beds they make up as many as 95% of the individuals. Researchers have offered...

exceed 15 cm in length. Ebenaqua ritchiei was described in 1983 based on fossils found in Queensland. It is a member of the Bobasatraniiformes, along with...

the West Coast of Scotland. It has a population of 27 people. In 2011, a fossil was discovered in Port Mor. It was a bony fish named Moricus in 2015 after...

to 125 million years ago. It was first discovered in 1983 by the amateur fossil hunter William Walker. A group of scientists lead by Alan Charig and Angela...

by-product. The real significance of stromatolites is that they are the earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth. The oldest known stromatolites have been dated...

is the most basal pachycormiform. The second most basal is Pachycormus. Fossil remains have been found in Europe. Euthynotus had a slender body. The skull...

and the Geadephaga (ground beetles. They are mostly predatory. The first fossils of both groups are found in the Triassic period. The ground beetles have...

Edmontosaurus was named from a fossil found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, in Alberta, Canada. Many Edmontosaurus fossils have been found, in Alberta...

Nakalipithecus nakayamai is a fossil ape species. It was a discovery of a 10-million-year-old jawbone with teeth, in a volcanic mud in Nakali, Kenya. N...

specifically a Titanosaur. Its fossils were found in Chile by paleontologists David Rubilar and Alexander Vargas in 2003. Their fossils showed around 40% of the...

of rocks, fossils and sediments. It uses a number of methods. Geochronology is the main tool used to get absolute age dates for all fossil assemblages...

extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish, fossils were discovered in Foshan City, China. "Tungtingichthys sp". The Fossil Forum. 2025-12-15. Retrieved 2026-05-27...

metamorphosis) sand and carbonate deposits occur for the first time. First eukaryote fossil at 2.1 billion years.p57 The Ediacaran period (635 to 542mya) which is characterized...

million years ago during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The fossil was originally confused with Cetiosaurus, a similar sauropod. Cetiosauriscus...

order are united by being families of aquatic herbs and are known from the fossil record as early as the Lower Cretaceous. This short article about biology...

pachycormiform from the early Toarcian of Europe. Its only species is S. esocinus. Fossil remains have been found in England, Germany, and France. The generic name...

fish) and hagfish (a scavenger) means that they are not typical of the fossil groups, which were free-swimming and often armoured. Agnatha: the jawless...

paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Walcott became Director...

are related to the ratites. Although the fossil record in South America is poor, the known tinamiform fossil record goes back 10 million years. Together...

ft) long and had a weight of about 7 tons, and more than 4 metres tall. Fossils of this Cretaceous dinosaur were found in North Africa by a paleontologist...

lentoni, "Lenton's Iron Dragon", is a species of pterosaur. The only known fossil of the pterosaur was found in 2017 north east of Winton, Queensland, Australia...

dinosaur of the Lower Cretaceous. The fossil was found in the Kitadani Quarry, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. A reconstructed fossil is exhibited in the Fukui Prefectural...

carry babies in the uterus. It includes Carnivora and its fossil relatives, pangolins and its fossil relatives, and the extinct Pantalesta. This short article...

protecting the ventral area of a vertebrate. They are found in some living and fossil reptiles. Crocodiles, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and theropod dinosaurs...

composing approximately 0.04% of the atmosphere. Human activities like burning fossil fuel such as oil, coal and natural gas for transportation, energy production...

than 50 living species in five genera, with an extensive fossil record. They are the oldest fossil Hymenoptera, dating back to the Triassic, some 200 million...

Megalibgwilia is a genus of echidna only known from fossils from Australia, it contains the oldest known echidna species. Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery...

contain fossils, and some are made up almost entirely of skeletal material. Chalk is ~99% coccoliths; Solnhofen limestone is famous for its animal fossils; and...

an extinct genus of prehistoric ellimmichthyiforms from the Cretaceous. Fossils have been found in Mexico, Croatia, the Middle East, and North Africa....

Opabinia is a fossil animal found in Cambrian fossil deposits. Its sole species, Opabinia regalis, is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (505...

recent species 2004: estimate: from 1000 to 1200 species There are many more fossil species. It is thought there are around 11,000 extinct taxa. Cephalopods...

million years ago. Because of its accessibility (easy to get at) and many fossils, Fortune Head was selected in 1992 over similar rock sections in Siberia...

middle Eocene. It is a kind of fossil fish. List of prehistoric bony fish genera Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins...

hooked spines. This predator lived more than 500 million years ago. Its fossil has been discovered in Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. Cambroraster...

Lariniscotes is a trace fossil attributed to sea scorpions. The tracks were probably made by Pterygotus or Eurypterus. This short article about biology...

Compsognathus was the smallest known dinosaur. The lack of the skull roof means the fossil cannot be placed at family level. It might or might not be a pachycephalosaur...

it was mistaken for a genus of Crocodile when it was found. The first fossils were of its teeth, two species have been named so far. In 1820, scientist...

only one living species, Ginkgo biloba. All the other known species are fossils. Ginkgo biloba is native to China. It is the National tree of China. A...

unchanged for millions of years. Groups like this are often called living fossils. The Arachnida is the huge and successful terrestrial (air-breathing) group...

Prehistoric eels are prehistoric ray-finned fish that are known from fossil remains. These prehistoric fish have snake-like bodies, like the modern eels...

The Protocoleoptera are the earliest beetles in the fossil record. "The oldest stem-group coleopterid is early Permian, 280 mya (million years ago)......

gastropods, holothurians. Fossil sites with bioturbation do not leave traces of soft-bodied animals. In contrast, fossil sites with undisturbed sediment...

Johnson, Kirk R.; Kvacek, Zlatko; Upchurch, Garland R. Jr (2007). "New fossil leaves of Araceae from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene of western North...

herbivorous sauropod from the late Cretaceous, one of the last in Asia. The fossil evidence is very limited: it is only an ilium, ischium and three vertebrae...

early hominid remains discovered there. For his volume, The South Africa fossil ape-men, the Australopithecinae, in which he proposed the Australopithecinae...

Amber is the common name for fossil resin. It occurs in different colours, and is widely used for making jewellery and other ornaments. Although not mineralized...

subfamily of the leptodactylid frogs. All species live in South America. Fossils of the giant Beelzebufo from Cretaceous Madagascar suggest that the subfamily...

Taylor, Thomas N. & Edith L. Taylor. 1993. The biology and evolution of fossil plants. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 303–305. ISBN 0-13-651589-4...

ago. It was the largest marsupial carnivore to have lived in Australia. Fossil remains on the dry Nullarbor Plain show that humans and climate change probably...

They are a sister group to those fish which evolved into tetrapods. Their fossil record goes back 400 million years, before any land vertebrates had evolved...

important things in the environment that are limited for example, ores and fossil fuels after a few thousand years. Some things in the natural environment...

central Montana in 1855 by Ferdinand Hayden. For a long time, troodontid fossils were few and scrappy. Recently more complete specimens have been found...

(pterodactyloid) pterosaurs. Darwinopterus is a transitional fossil between the two groups. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been found, all collected from the...

000 fossils. The museum is 6 kilometres (4 mi) from Drumheller, Alberta and 135 kilometres (84 mi) from Calgary. It is in the middle of the fossil-bearing...

features not only of echolocating bats today, but also in other known fossil species. Fossil remains of other Eocene bats, Icaronycteris, Archaeonycteris, Palaeochiropteryx...

Pachycormidae in the order Pachycormiformes with one species, P. retrodorsalis. Fossils were found in Germany. It lived during the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian)...

occurrence of fossil Balistes (Tetradontiformes: Balistidae) from the Miocene of Cuba with the description of a new species and a revision of fossil Balistes"...

primitive bird Archaeopteryx appeared in 1976. After the modern discoveries of fossil dinobirds in China, the Huxley–Ostrom theory was accepted by almost all...

classification has been the subject of controversy, and interpretations of the fossil likened it to molluscs, arthropods, conodonts, worms, and vertebrates. It...

South Island of New Zealand, where there were no other large predators. Fossil evidence shows that the areas where the Haast’s eagle lived were covered...

genera in it. Triops and Lepidura. The two genera are considered 'living fossils', as they have not changed in outward form since the Triassic. Notostracans...

inside the body during metamorphosis. The earliest endopterygote amber fossils date from the Carboniferous. Rolf G. Beutel & Hans Pohl (2006). "Endopterygote...

rodent species of the Khammouan area of Laos, first named in 2005. Living fossil Duckworth, J.W. (2016). "Laonastes aenigmamus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...

have discovered the fossil bones of thylacines that are at least 30 million years old. Thylacines were common across Australia. Fossil remains have been...

surviving group. Holocephali have a long fossil record that starts during the Devonian period. However, most fossils are teeth, and the body forms of numerous...

Hallucigenia is an extinct genus of animal found as fossils in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale formation of British Columbia, Canada. Another species...

language Afrikaans. It is the only living member in its order, though some fossil genera have been found Order Tubulidentata Family Orycteropodidae Genus...

small populations. In palaeontology, we try to understand the changes in fossils through time. We think the same factors which act today also acted in the...

triplespines. It's from the Oligocene of Glarus, Switzerland. According to the fossils, Acanthopleurus may have looked long in appearance. The body was probably...

paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey were the first to find H. habilis fossils. They made their discovery in 1960 at Olduvai Gorge in the Great Rift Valley...

identical to Helenodora from the Mazon Creek fossil beds. Later studies from 1988 and 2014 showed some of the fossils alongside new ones which were recently...

Ordovices. It was defined by Charles Lapworth in 1879. He recognized that the fossils in the disputed strata were different from those of the Cambrian or the...

Australia in the Palaeocene about 50 million years ago. The oldest macropod fossil found is about 12 million years old. Wikispecies has information on: Macropodidae...

2009, a fossil beetle was found in the Pennsylvanian of Mazon Creek, Illinois. This put the origin of the beetles back to 318 to 299 mya. Fossils from this...

anemones stiffen the mesoglea with sediment particles. There is a long fossil record for the corals, and soft-bodied forms appear in some exceptional...

dinosaur. It lived in the Lower Cretaceous, about 125 million years ago. Its fossil was found in the Yixian Formation near Beipiao, Liaoning Province of China...

filament up to 30 mm long. The oldest Grypania fossils come from an iron mine near Negaunee, Michigan. The fossils are dated as 1874 million years old. Grypania...

georgicus is a species of Homo that was proposed in 2002. It is based on fossil skulls and jaws found in Dmanisi, Georgia in 1999 and 2001. They seem intermediate...

been suggested for Homo rhodesiensis. Paleoanthropologists found a single fossil skull in 1921, in the colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) at a mine...

Great grey owl Fish - Walleye Flower - Prairie crocus Tree - White spruce Fossil - Tylosaurus pembinesis "Manitoba". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural...

of the branches of biology that deals with animal fossils and ancient animal life. The animal fossils are thoroughly studied and the process of evolution...

plant Colthorpe, Andy (2022-04-22). "Drive to rehabilitate New York City fossil fuel peaker plant sites with battery storage". Energy Storage News. Retrieved...

consumed. Once it is used up, there is no more available for the future. Fossil fuels (such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas), types of nuclear power...

Because trolleybuses do not usually have engines which burn diesel or other fossil fuels, they are much cleaner and quieter than "normal" buses. They also...

The family Chinchillidae contains the chinchillas, viscachas, and their fossil relatives. They are restricted to southern and western South America. Often...

(currently Homo erectus pekinensis) is an example of Homo erectus. The fossil remains were first found between in 1923 and 1937 during excavations at...

including airplanes. It replaces diesel that comes from petroleum, a type of fossil fuel. Biofuel prepared from biomass is different since it does not start...

fish genera Palaeoperca Serranidae Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived...

It was found by Justus Erus, who was part of Meave Leakey's team. The fossil is 3.5 to 3.2 million years old. It has a broad flat face with a toe bone...

for batteries to help create electric vehicles and help end the use of fossil fuels. Goodenough discovered the polyanion class of cathodes. They showed...

was a perch-like actinopterygian. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved...

years ago. It co-existed with early species of Homo. All of the known fossils of P. robustus have come from the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa....

Argentina. It is also the oldest known loricaroid fossil. Cockerell, T. D. A (30 October 1925). "A Fossil Fish of the Family Callichthyidae". Science. "Discovery...

Amphicoelias is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur. The fossil was found in the Morrison Formation. It lived about 150 million years ago during the...

horny beak without any teeth in their mouth. In contrast, Odontochelys fossils had teeth in their upper and lower jaws. One of the most striking features...

It was one of the biggest dinosaurs. Brachiosaurus was a sauropod. Its fossils were found in North America and Asia. At full stretch, Brachiosaurus could...

occurrence of fossil Balistes (Tetradontiformes: Balistidae) from the Miocene of Cuba with the description of a new species and a revision of fossil Balistes"...

reptilian world. The first fossils of small dinosaurs with feathers, such as Anchiornis, come from the Jurassic period. The famous fossil bird, Archaeopteryx...

coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. It is a "living fossil", recently found in 1994. Its fossil record dates back 200 million years, and it was thought...

including the placement of the eyes. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived...

on August 15th, wasabi, soba, canoe polo, the Sai River, apples, and the fossil museum. This short article about Japan can be made longer. You can help...

Uncia uncia, now Panthera uncia Turner A. 1997. The big cats and their fossil relatives. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10229-1 Johnson W.E. et...

which can be exactly dated by a layer of volcanic ash close beneath the fossil. Eoraptor was a small, lightly-built archosaur that walked on two long legs...

Homo luzonensis is the name given to some fossil bones and teeth belonging to a hominin. The place of discovery was Callao Cave in the north of Luzon,...

Westlothiana lizziae is an early tetrapod. It is a transitional fossil, with a mixture of amphibian and early amniote characters.282 Its body shape had...

wrasses Gardiner, B. G. (1993). "Osteichtythyes: basal actinopterygians". Fossil Record II. Nelson, Joseph, S. (2016). Fishes of the World. John Wiley &...

detailed record of forams from deep sea drilling projects are the basis of a fossil index for geological periods or stages. This is called biostratigraphy....

fish in the Devonian evolved into tetrapods in a series of transitional fossils. Clack adopted the term "fishapod" to describe these animals. They then...

was named by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1856; the first Megatherium fossil was found in Argentina in 1789. This short article about biology can be...

bioplastics is that they are not made from fossil fuel. This is good because there is only a limited amount of fossil fuels. They also can not be found everywhere...

large-brained dinosaur which cared for its eggs. In 1924, an Oviraptor fossil was found on top of some eggs, and some thought that it had been eating...

Over 100 skeletons have been found, some of them nearly complete. Many fossils have come from Swabia, Germany. Plateosaurus was the first long-necked...

cyanobacteria. The first unicellular eukaryote organisms also appeared in the fossil record. The first supercontinent grew, and some of the rocks were normal...

species was named in 1868 by Joseph Leidy. Paleontologists found Aublysodon fossils in Montana, U.S.A. that are around 75 million years old. At that time,...

the Earth's history. However, in recent centuries they have burned much fossil fuel, which has partly been responsible for the present temperature rise...

lived alongside the related Altispinax. Owen, R., 1856, Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Wealden Formation. Part IV. Palaeontographical Society Monographs...

species name, kemkemensis, refers to the Kem Kem Group in Morocco where the fossils were discovered. Serenoichthys was a small fish. In comparison, the big...

15 ft), and can grow to about 800 kilograms (1,760 lb). The genus has a long fossil history. There are two living species in this genus: the common shortfin...

Sirius Passet is a special fossil site, a Cambrian lagerstätte in Greenland. It is from six places on the eastern shore of a fjord in the far north of...

filter-feeding. Such invertebrates are abundant in the sediment of the fossil site In 2004 a Pterodaustro embryo in an egg was reported. The egg was elongated...

the polyplacophora clade, although these have been called into question. Fossil and morphological data show that they are rather derived and bear very little...

human fossils in East Africa. Louise started finding fossils in 1977. She was six years old. She is the youngest person to find hominid fossils. In 1993...

for evolution and the development of man from ape.[source?] All of the fossil remains were stained with an iron sulfate solution. The Piltdown fragments...

same place at the same time. The first and most complete H. rudolfensis fossil was a skull discovered in 1972 by Bernard Ngeneo. He was part of a team...

crinoids have a long history. They were the first echinoderms to appear in the fossil record, and have kept their early structure throughout their long career...

years ago. When people burn fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas this adds carbon dioxide to the air, since fossil fuels contain lots of carbon...

member of the family Sciadopityaceae. It is a living fossil with no close relatives: its fossils date from 230 million years ago. It is an evergreen tree...

; Martin; J, Anthony; Katsura, Yoshihiro (2007). "First trace and body fossil evidence of a burrowing, denning dinosaur". Proceedings of the Royal Society...

had sophisticated molars, from which the suborder gets its name. In the fossil record, isolated teeth and bits of jawbones are found. Docodonts are not...

Analysis of fossil teeth suggest that A. deyiremeda had a different diet from A. afarensis. Some scientists believe that A. deyiremeda fossils really belonged...

person to predict that emissions of carbon dioxide, from the burning of fossil fuels, would cause global warming. His early work was on the conductivity...

The fossil record of the genus goes back to the early Eocene of northwestern North America. The species Carpinus perryae is known from fossil fruits...

have been recovered from North America. North America has a rich dinosaur fossil record with great diversity of dinosaurs. This may not mean the dinosaurs...

in South America and one in Australia. Maisey, John G. 1996. Discovering fossil fishes. Holt, New York. p193 ISBN 0-8050-4366-7 This short article about...

which are eaten by animals and so act as seed-spreaders. The earliest fossils of Poales date to the late Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago...

in East Africa. Paleoanthropologists have found over 100 A. anamensis fossils in Kenya and Ethiopia, from 20 separate individuals. The name Australopithecus...

The Hell Creek Formation is a series of rocks where fossil dinosaurs are found. The strata are mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in...

Oregon in the United States. Several other species have been named from fossils, but are now extinct. These include Sequoia affinis, Sequoia chinensis...

system of faunal stages, of varying lengths, based on the kinds of animal fossils found there. In many cases, such faunal stages have been adopted in building...

throughout most of South America. It is a large family of turtles, and its fossil history goes back to the Cretaceous. The family Chelidae has about 60 living...

This is especially the case when actions are directed at the saving of fossil fuels. "Philips Tornado Asian Compact Fluorescent". Philips. Retrieved 2007-12-24...

Andrew J. (2014). "On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks". Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 6 (8)...

PMC 3565515. PMID 23221875. Seeley, H.G. (1888). "On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria." Proceedings of the Royal Society of...

scientific study of fossils. His Petrifacta Derbiensia says that Watson's uncle and workers at the Black Marble mine called some of the fossils "crocodile tails"...

Northern Hemisphere and invaded the Australasian region a number of times. Fossil kingfishers have been described from Lower Eocene rocks in Wyoming 50 million...

formerly Urochordata; 3,000 species) †Vetulicolia (8 Cambrian species of fossil) Cephalochordata – (lancelets, 30 species) Vertebrata (vertebrates – animals...

(the end of the last ice age). Recently, the earliest known woolly rhino fossil was discovered from 3.6 million years in the Himalayas on the cold Tibetan...

acting as a barrier against desiccation. Exoskeletons first appeared in the fossil record about 550 million years ago, and their evolution has been seen as...

in rock. These stoney items are called fossils. Paleobiology combines biology with the study of these fossils. There are several branches of paleobiology:...

A biosignature (sometimes called chemical fossil or molecular fossil) is any substance – such as an element, isotope, or molecule, or phenomenon that provides...

Coal is a hard rock which can be burned as a fossil fuel. It is mostly carbon but also contains hydrogen, sulphur, oxygen and nitrogen. It is a sedimentary...

million years ago. It ate crocodiles. The fossil was found in an open-cast coal mine in Colombia, in 2009. Plant fossils at the site proved the climate at the...

Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is in the district. In it many fossils have been found. "Bevölkerung in Hessen am 31.12.2023] (Einwohnerzahlen...

the cypress family Sequoia (genus), a genus with one living and several fossil species Sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood, found along the coast of California...

of a cricket that chirped 165 million years ago. "A remarkably complete fossil of the prehistoric insect enabled the team to see the structures in its...

by the Tonian. The supercontinent Rodinia began forming in this period. Fossils of the first known sexually-reproducing eukaryotes are found at the end...

long and weighed about 800–900 pounds (350 to 400 kg). Five incomplete fossil skeletons have been found in Mongolia. This short article about biology...

Prospecting is the physical search for minerals, fossils, precious metals or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking or, on a large scale, as...

sedimentary rocks which formed in and around the Sundance Sea are often rich in fossils. The Sundance Sea had many types of animals. The oyster Gryphaea was very...

Argentina. It is the only surviving member of the genus Sarcoramphus, although fossil members are known. Large and predominantly white, the king vulture has gray...

252 million years ago. The trilobites are the second most famous type of fossils, after the dinosaurs. Millipedes Spider, arachnid Blue crab, crustacean...

great aquifers. It underlies portions of eight states, contains primarily fossil water from the time of the last glaciation. Annual recharge, in the more...

It is also a quite large family, the Gekkonidae. There are 85 species. Fossils of gekkos date back to the Eocene. Gekkos eat flies and other insects....

the first to identify fossils as being from living organisms. His contemporaries Robert Hooke and John Ray also argued that fossils were the remains of...

referred to as "living fossils" or "primitive fish" because their features have not changed very much since their earliest fossil record. Acipenseriformes...

the early Cretaceous period. It mainly lived in present-day England. Its fossil back bone was found on the Isle of Wight. Naish, Darren (15 Jul 2006). "Angloposeidon'...

from other Cretaceous fossils discovered in Africa. It may also be synonomus with the African genus Spinosaurus. In 1999, two fossil bones of Oxalaia were...

rodent-like mammals which survived for about 166 million years – the longest fossil history of any mammal line. They were eventually outcompeted by rodents...

extinct close relatives. The cynodonts lived in all continents, and their fossil record begins in the Upper Permian 256 million years ago. The extinct members...

crustacea would be phyla (see List of animal phyla). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back to the Cambrian. Most crustaceans are aquatic, mostly...

members of the family Esocidae, being closer related to Esox than Umbra. Fossil specimens from the Mesozoic in North America have been assigned as two additional...

less sensitive. Diatomaceous earth is a soft, sedimentary rock made of fossil diatoms. About one-quarter of dynamite is diatomaceous earth, the other...

Ephedra. Peter R. Crane, Patrick Herendeen and Else Marie Friis (2004). "Fossils and plant phylogeny". American Journal of Botany. 91 (10): 1683–1699. Bibcode:2004AmJB...

genus of coelurosaur theropod from the Upper Jurassic of North America. The fossil holotype was donated to science by an anonymous benefactor. It is part of...

5 billion years ago during the Eoarchean era. There are microbial mat fossils, such as stromatolites, found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered...

2007. The fossil had been kept in a closet of the Laboratory of Paleovertebrates of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul South. The fossil was described...

Repenomamus is the largest known mammal from the Cretaceous period. Its fossil was found in Manchuria. There is good evidence that it fed on dinosaurs...

only on islands in south-east Asia. Fossils are found in Asia, Europe, and North America, and some disputed fossils from Africa. Living tarsiers are on...

is stretched out in front, and the legs trail out behind. The earliest fossils of cranes were discovered in North America. Living forms are living everywhere...

ft) in lenght. This species dives to a depth of 600 meters (2,000 ft). "Fossil Works". Fossilworks.org Based on a 2002 study by Baird and Robin. Wikispecies...

bilaterally symmetrical. There are over 30,000 species of bivalves, including the fossil species. There are about 9,200 living species in 1,260 genera and 106 families...

the mapmaker Abraham Ortelius in the 16th century. Wegener used geologic, fossil, and glacial evidence from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean to support...

Africa to Greece. Analysis of two fossils from a Greek cave has shed light on early hominins in Eurasia. One fossil is the earliest known specimen of...

the branch of paleontology that studies microfossils. Microfossils are fossils generally not larger than four millimeters, and commonly smaller than one...

dromaeosaur teeth have been found in the Middle Jurassic, no dromaeosaurid body fossils have been found this early. The Dromaeosaur skeleton suggests they were...

oogenus/genus of Cambrian-aged embryo fossil found in China. It was related to the Siberian Markuelia. Most Olivooides fossils are in a late embryonic stage,...

is the most common animal in the Burgess Shale. Marrella was the first fossil collected by Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Burgess Shale, in 1909....

is a force in which the air's movement spirals inward. Cement industry Fossil fuel power stations Oil refinery Sawmill This short article about science...

from the Jurassic of China. Its only species, Yi qi is known from a single fossil specimen of an adult found in middle or late Jurassicof Hebei, China. It...

Serranidae, which includes the groupers. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera" Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine. Bulletins...

B. singularis. Brachyaglaspis is known from a single, almost complete fossil from the Floian aged section of the Fezouata Formation in Morocco. It is...

herds. It was first discovered in 1877 in Colorado by Oramel W. Lucas. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation of Colorado, New Mexico...

Behavior. 26 (1): 10–46. [1] Hartwig, Walter C., ed. 2002. The Primate fossil record. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. 33...

years ago (mya). The strata where the fossils were found was then on the coast of the Tethys Sea. The first fossil, a lone skull, was thought to be of an...

placed in a separate division, the Anthocerotophyta. Horneophyton is a fossil plant similar to hornworts. This short article about biology can be made...

over 750 legs (Illacme plenipes), but some have fewer than ten legs. The fossil record of myriapods goes back into the late Silurian, though molecular evidence...

district is the valley of the small river Düssel, the Neanderthal, where the fossils of the human species Neanderthals were first found. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden...

marine cephalopod molluscs of the subclass Ammonoidea. Their widely-known fossils show a ribbed spiral-form shell, in the end compartment of which lived...

room temperature and normal pressure it is a gas. Propene is produced from fossil fuels, and from coal. Propene is the second most important product used...

and fourteen species. Baleen whales do not have teeth, except as embryos. Fossil adult baleen whales did have teeth, but modern adults have only baleen....

references extant species (b): ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System 3. Fossil record data (with taxonomic references) extant and extinct species: The...

A coprolite is fossilized faeces. Coprolites are trace fossils, not body fossils. They give evidence of the animal's behaviour (in this case, its diet)...

amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. It is important for its fossils from the earliest part of the Upper Cretaceous, in the Cenomanian age,...

rocks of the Upper Triassic in Nevada, and later in British Columbia. Fossils of Shonisaurus were first found in a large deposit in Nevada in 1920. Thirty...

genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish in the order Aspidorhynchiformes. Fossils have been found in marine areas, although some species are known from freshwater...

lived in the Pleistocene period. They are an example of island dwarfism. Fossil remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the Mediterranean islands...

voyage on HMS Rattlesnake in 1846–1850. Archeologists have found diatom fossils from as far back as the Lower Jurassic period, around 185 million years...

genus. It is also the type genus of the Pycnodontiformes. According to the fossils, Pycnodus could've been 30.6 cm (10 in) long. It looked like a righteye...

neck, and when it stood on the ground it was as tall as a giraffe. Its fossil record is from the Late Cretaceous of North America, between 68 to 66 million...

dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil, in the Lower Cretaceous. Its fossils are known from the Romualdo Formation. Irritator had straight and cone-shaped...

H. antecessor fossil is a maxilla (an upper jaw bone). It belonged to a 10-year-old individual found in Atapuerca, Spain. Eighty fossils from six individuals...

years ago during the end of the Eocene period. The first Basilosaurus fossils were found in Louisiana, USA, but another species was soon discovered preserved...

who is the lead anatomist. The T. rex was based off the most complete fossil, "Sue". Tyrannosaurus anatomy This short article about movies can be made...

of the addition of new chain restaurants and a museum known as the Gray Fossil Site. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2020 Demographic...

was discovered by David Starr Jordan in 1907. Knightia is Wyoming's state fossil, belonging to the same taxonomic family as herring and sardines. It likely...

Lucy is the nickname of a famous fossil discovery. Its official name is AL 288-1. It is a partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis. This...

vratislavensis Agassiz, 1833 Palaeoniscum vratislavensis Life restoration Another fossil of P. vratislavensis "Palaeoniscum freieslebeni Blainville, 1818" Archived...

anthropology. Biological anthropology puts together information from the fossil record, the human skeleton, genetics, our primate relatives, human adaptations...

followed by a telson (tailpiece). The fossil record of the group extends back into the Cambrian, with fossils of barnacles and tongue worms known from...

"pollen wasps" also evolved from predatory ancestors. A recently reported bee fossil, of the genus Melittosphex, is considered "an extinct lineage of pollen-collecting...

Therefore, it doesn't much change the amount of atmospheric carbon. Although fossil fuels come from things that died long ago, they are not considered biomass...

vehicle that uses (compressed or liquefied) natural gas instead of other fossil fuels. Natural gas is a mixture. It consists mainly of hydrocarbons. The...