The word
fossil comes from the Latin word fossilis, which means, dug up.
Researchers performed CT scans on the unidentified
fossil and compared them to old excavation drawings to trace the
fossils origin.
When Australian researchers not connected to Brown's team compared Flo's skull with skulls of several modern people and of two
fossil individuals with microcephaly, they came to the same conclusion (SN: 7/15/06, p.
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From 1987 to 1996, the Costa Mesa resident recovered
fossils at the landfill, including the jawbone of a new species now named after him.
After studying this
fossil, Norell and Xu concluded that the ostrich-size dinosaur had been cloaked in downy feathers from head to tail.
Rashad Kaldany, director of the World Bank's oil, gas and mining division, says its
fossil fuel projects meet stringent environmental and social standards.
A large and growing number of investigations demonstrate that the costs of burning
fossil fuels are enormous and are imposed not in the future but right now.
When paleontologists split the rock to reveal the
fossil, the face opposite the bone retained a counterimpression--including the leg feathers.
Retrieved several weeks later by Wang and museum senior preparer Howell Thomas during a hike that required fording rain-swollen Punchbowl Creek barefoot, the
fossil - still embedded in a chunk of conglomerate rock - is now at the county museum.
When Hendrickson unearthed her find, she knew she was looking at a Late Cretaceous
fossil.
These relics derive from an era that corresponds to a 9-million-year gap in the vertebrate
fossil record.
Beneath the asphalt crust of today's San Fernando Valley lies newly discovered
fossil evidence of a lost world where ground sloths and mammoths roamed 50,000 years ago alongside native camels.
One day in the summer of 1993,
fossil hunter Michael Novacek was four-wheeling through the lunar landscape of Mongolia's Gobi Desert with his team of paleontologists (scientists who study plant and animal
fossils).
