How To Use Fossil In A Sentence
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However, the Seismosaurus fossil found with the most gastroliths held only 15 kg of stones, the largest no bigger than a grapefruit.
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We have virtually no fossils of tropical fleshy algae, especially the small soft epilithic species that characterize primary productivity on modern reefs.
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On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.
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The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.
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Grimaldi studies insect fossils in both amber and stone.
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According to bury circumstance judgement, put possibly inside circumjacent bigger range in more and dinosaurian fossil, disentomb foreground is very hopeful.
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Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
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Turtles were considered to be living anapsids although there was a significant temporal gap between the last anapsid reptile fossil and the first turtle fossil.
Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
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A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coal is on its way out and, while gas importantly emits the least carbon of any fossil fuel, it cannot carry the load on its own.
Times, Sunday Times
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The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing.
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The fossiliferous beds at Felsoors have been studied for over 130 years.
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The exciting discovery was apparently made when researchers were forced to break open the leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to lift it by helicopter.
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Today more than a dozen transitional whale fossils have been unearthed - an excellent series for such rarely fossilized animals.
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The fossil material includes complete postcranial remains (many of which are partially articulated) and skulls so well preserved that even the most delicate bones are still intact.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
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The fossils indicate the wings had feathers, arranged in a similar pattern to that of modern birds.
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Hasn't he any conception of the devastation caused to this planet by burning fossil fuels?
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
Memory Wall
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Their hypothesis can be tested by the discovery of fossilized stomach contents for Pakicetus.
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On the whole the maxillopodan groups Ostracoda and Cirripedia and the Malacostraca have left the most significant fossil records.
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The chief limitation on the number of fossil species studied was the rarity in museum collections of skulls with complete dentition, especially incisors.
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Fortunately we have completed all of the suit study trials, have collected a bunch of rock samples for the microfossil and extremophile studies, and have finished work on the telescope, so we are in good shape, but there's still plenty of data analysis to do on those projects and lots of GPS tracking and geotagging yet to do.
Reminder: Paul's and Laksen's blogs
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Quantitative growth ring analysis of fossil woods may be used only in well-constrained paleoecological studies where taxonomic and climatic sources of variability can be controlled, and additionally, of course, as a qualitative tool in paleoclimatic and paleoecological analyses.
Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel « Climate Audit
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In this regard their mode of life may have been quite similar to fossil and recent species of tubicolous polychaete worms, such as serpulids.
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The fossil turned out to be a composite of the body of a bird with the tail of a dinosaur.
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Petrified wood and fossils are evident during backcountry hikes away from the river, but remember to take only pictures and leave only footprints.
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Sarah Pickin, 23, spotted the ancient piece of "confectionery" during a dig in north-west Finland, but had to check with colleagues whether her hunch was correct or if it was in fact a fossilised piece of animal dung.
Student Finds Neolithic Chewing Gum | Impact Lab
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Certainly the Cambrian record is deeply biased in favour of shelly fossils, as revealed by the exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas, where the vast majority of taxa and individuals were non-biomineralizing.
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One of the most important aspects of paleobotany is establishing relationships between the organisms that we encounter in the fossil record.
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The oldest fossils of parrotfishes, including one eroding species, are all of Miocene age.
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The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
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Ireland's heavy reliance on fossil fuels such as oil and coal is not sustainable for the future, he said.
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Fossils are also featured in art as in the use of petrified wood for ornaments or the more general inspiration provided by fossils in painting and sculpture.
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Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized.
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Some of the fossils are proving pivotal in testing the hypothesis that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs.
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Nuclear power could free up more fossil and biomass fuels to use as liquid fuel for ground transportation.
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The imperative to move quickly past fossil fuels to clean energies - wind, solar and biomass - and conservation measures such as retrofitting homes, was noted by those reporting that 2009 and 2010 have been the hottest years on record, and Boulder and Jefferson County (where Coors operates a coal-fired plant) have earned an "F" grade for ozone levels in recent years.
Michele Swenson: The Urgency of Toxic Coal Ash Regulation and the Move to Clean Energy
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• Giving certainty of funding when long-term investment is needed but does not fossilise funding at the expense of innovation;
Archive 2008-06-01
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Fossilized spinnerets (the organs that spit out the spider silk) that occur in Middle Devonian rocks in Schoharie County, New York, show that spiders have been making silk for at least 380 million years.
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Thus, meteorites represent a fossil record of the early conditions of the solar nebula.
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The research is based on cetacean fossils representing four groups of early whales.
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The dorsal carapace, as far as is known to the authors, has never been described from the fossil record.
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In the study of fossil populations, the timing of encrustation is important, although both encrustation during life or after death provides ecological and taphonomic data.
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Now a team of paleontologists has found a fossilized arthropod they're betting is an early member of the subphylum Crustacea.
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No preparation was necessary for the examination of the decapod fossils.
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Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
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More interesting still, recent fossil discoveries show that the hip bones of some giant dinosaurs were almost hollow.
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When the bones were brought to the Montana State University's lab, it was noticed that ‘some parts deep inside the long bone of the leg had not completely fossilized.’
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-- The Australian scincids Egernia and Tiliqua, which have been separated for over 20 million years (as demonstrated by fossils) can still hybridise.
The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas
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A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.
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Old river emptying into Lake Managua reveals fossil bones; moraines east of it are found.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
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Fossils of a previously unknown species, which is believed to have belonged to the herbivorous sauropod diplodocus family, were found along the banks of a tributary of the Amazon river in the northern state of Maranhao.
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When it was sunny we picnicked among the forest's ponies and searched for fossils on deserted beaches.
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Plastics are highly energy-intensive and composed mostly of nonrenewable fossil fuels whose supplies are expected to become increasingly limited.
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Morphological species are important in palaeontology, for interbreeding ability does not fossilize.
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The company is banking on China's growing use of hydroelectric power: The government is planning to increase hydro capacity to 350 gigawatts per year from just over 200 gigawatts at the moment, to realize its goal of having nonfossil fuels account for 15% of China's energy mix.
Bankers Hurt as Chinese IPOs Struggle
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It must really irk you guys that Mccain and bush pretty much agree with the democrats on illegal immigration. and you are scared dems will destroy oil companies? wont unrenewable fossil fuels do the job anyways?
Duck, It's Hillary!
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The thoracic pleura of Archizelmiridae, visible in some of the amber fossils, provide additional clues about relationships.
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Another important result of dendrochronological dating of large samples of subfossil wood is the ability to calculate the relative abundance of Siberian spruce in forest stands of the area, which is an index or proxy for the degree of continentality of the climate.
Climate change and forest distribution in the Arctic
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Alongside the enormous snakes, which were so wide it would have been a squeeze for them to get through a doorway, were fossils of turtles and giant crocodile-like dyrosaurs.
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Of special interest to me right now are the dinosaurs of the British Wealden (of course), the intriguing tie-ins between Wealden fossil collectors, Conan Doyle's Lost World and the Piltdown fiasco, convergence between different fossorial tetrapods, manatee evolution, and British big cats (yes, really).
Archive 2006-01-01
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In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
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Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: a new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Over this system lie beds which have yielded in succession Ordovician and Silurian fossils, forming altogether a compact division which has been distinguished locally as the _Muth system_.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
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The Cambrian fossil record suggests that many metazoans were macroscopic and adapted for life in the macrobenthos.
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Even remnants of last meals were preserved, such as the bellyful of shrimp fossilized inside one 8-centimeter-long larval salamander.
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our exhaustible reserves of fossil fuel
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This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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This will avoid landfill and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels - exactly the sort of innovation we need to encourage.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
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We know it from the patterns that show up in our curves of evolution from the fossil record.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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The need for good fossil data for correlation remains critical.
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In the end, the central question with hydrogen is whether it is made using renewable energy to electrolyze water, or with climate-disrupting fossil fuels.
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To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced.
II. Uniformity Of Change
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They have been known for about fifty years and look quite different from any other pollen, fossil or modern.
EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man
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The unusual surface textures of fossil cycads have been interesting curiosities to collectors for a long time.
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Constructed of coquina, a fossilized coral rock (also known as ‘black teeth’ or ‘iron shore’) and limestone, the cathedral dominates the city's Plaza de Catedral.
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Well-preserved fossils occur in the zeolite facies Triassic rocks of Southland, New Zealand, where Coombs first described the phenomenon in the 1950s.
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We must change, on a societal level, our dependence and usage of fossil fuels.
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He jets to Bruce Springsteen concerts, has several luxury cars and collects fossils in prehistoric amber.
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This fossil has been reconstructed with a hypothetical stalk anchored in the substrate, as if supporting a frondose body in a reclined position.
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Fossils other than graptolites are very rare.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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As noted above, creationists do not have a really satisfactory explanation for the increasing modernness of fossils.
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Unlike fossil fuel plants it is carbon neutral.
Times, Sunday Times
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In these fossils, detail of legs, antennae, wings, and even small body hairs are preserved.
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To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa.
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Investigators have suggested that these fossils represent new growth from cycads, deciduous trees, ginkgos and, most commonly, conifer trees.
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I have no confidence that fossil fuel energy is going to be competitive.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the welcome spirit in which people around the world are taking it upon themselves to question and even shake off entrenched and fossilised regimes that have long outstayed their welcome, I wonder if their courageous example could not have something to teach us?
Letters: Artistic bravado
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Features such as knots and branches can be recognized in some of the fossils.
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In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected.
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Numerous recent studies in vertebrate paleontology have focused on reconstructing the ecology of terrestrial fossil communities.
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Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
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The most complete fossil was that of an adult male skull lacking a lower jaw found embedded in ancient cemented sands.
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As the fossils weather out of their matrix, they break into pieces and disperse; complete specimens are rare.
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This rarity may simply be a function of the taphonomy and collection history of the localities where Ansomys has been found, it may also be that it indicates low abundance in the communities from which the fossil assemblages were derived.
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Which is the nearest fossil relative of a chicken: pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus or woolly mammoth?
Times, Sunday Times
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This was followed by several papers chiefly bearing upon the relation between extinct and existing forms -- a line of research which culminated in the publication of the _Histoire des végétaux fossiles_, which has earned for him the title of "father of palaeobotany.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Xu notes that, except for exhibitions or scientific exchanges, it is against the law to export vertebrate fossils - fossils of animals with backbones - from China.
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We'll dust ourselves with clay and fossilized feces, fashion a tool driven by a concept, something to blow their little minds.
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Apart from the unbreathable air that such coal burning would create, carbon emissions from fossil-fuel burning in China alone would rival those of the entire world today.
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Both sites show evidence they once contained liquid water and might therefore harbor fossils of primitive life.
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Hence we derive a light as to what animals may have existed at particular times, which is in some measure independent of the specialties of fossilology.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
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The best way to "subsidize" alternative energy is to eliminate special tax advantages for the fossil fuel industry, like depletion allowances.
Energy Conservation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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4 Based on its primitive characteristics, Louis identified the tooth as that of a cercopithecoid a monkey and sent it along with the other Laetoli fossils to the British Museum of Natural History.
Ancestral Passions
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The spherules were previously interpreted as microfossils (Vallenia sp.) because of their spheroidal shapes and inclusions of carbonaceous matter.
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On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.
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Investors may find that their money is funding activities at odds with their values, with significant tracker investments in sectors such as tobacco and fossil fuels.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today, the planet would continue to heat up for more than a hundred years.
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Ireland's heavy reliance on fossil fuels such as oil and coal is not sustainable for the future, he said.
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It has long been known that the shrimps and lobsters are the most primitive of the decapods and, in fact, have the oldest fossil records.
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A few years ago environmentalists argued that fertiliser would soon run short, because it is made using natural gas, a fossil fuel.
Times, Sunday Times
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These features were utilized as taxonomic discriminators because usually their structures are well preserved in fossilized coralla and they are relatively easy to study in thin section.
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All the fossils that had been called Pithecanthropus—for example, Java and Peking men—were now labeled Homo erectus, as Clark Howell had suggested in an influential 1960 paper.
Ancestral Passions
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One difference between refuelling an EV compared with a fossil fuel vehicle is the time spent at the pump.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fuckhead, calling someone a dimwitted fossil is an insult, you ignorant pustule.
Matthew Yglesias » A Telling Slip on Detainees
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Who would take care of that crazy old fossil then?
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The more we rely on renewable energy, the less dependent we are on utility giants and nonrenewable, polluting fossil fuels.
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In that time, the first undoubted fossil annelids, arthropods, brachiopods, echinoderms, molluscs, onychophorans, poriferans, and priapulids show up in rocks all over the world.
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It's my view that we cannot just continue with fossil fuels.
Times, Sunday Times
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A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless.
Times, Sunday Times
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A new fossil mosasaur, one of a group of non-dinosaurian reptiles that return to marine existence, has been found by an amateur fossil hunter see?
The Panda's Thumb: John S. Wilkins Archives
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The areas where Holocene macrofossils have been located and carbon-dated are indicated by coloured zones to the north of the current treelines.
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The junk itself is a collection of fossils from our evolutionary history, which makes it interesting in the same way that a midden is interesting to archeologists.
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Limited dolomitization of the calcite around the edges of the fossils and in the matrix of the concretion occurred at a later stage.
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Before his involvement in the Piltdown excavations, Teilhard was nothing more than a young priest with aspirations in science, who had collected fossils and pre-eminently fossil sea urchins, in Egypt.
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But if, say, the chapter on palynology doesn't quite equip historians to go out and study fossil pollen themselves, it will at least enable them to talk intelligently with specialists who can.
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You could become uncompetitive with countries that continue to depend on fossil fuels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Koobi Fora deposits are rich in pre-human, mammalian, molluscan and other fossil remains and have contributed more to the understanding of palaeoenvironments than any other site on the continent.
Lake Turkana National Parks, Kenya
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Then we use the dating of a recently discovered hominid fossil as a calibration point.
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For example, Star Anise, that peculiar spice that looks like a fossilised flower, has really changed my stews, adding an unfamiliar glamour to shin of beef.
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Given recent fossil evidence, Africa may have provided the greatest opportunity for admixture between archaic subpopulations of Homo, simply because Africa harbored the highest levels of diversity.
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Some Late Precambrian Ediacaran fossils bear strong resemblances to colonial coelenterates called sea pens.
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But one should not – and does not – find modern human fossils embedded in strata from the Jurassic period (144 million years ago).
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists.
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Also, other microfossils such as diatoms, radiolaria, and planktonic and benthic foraminifera are useful in certain parts of the Palaeocene.
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In the coming decades we will slowly be transitioning into a hydrogen economy, eliminating the need for fossil fuels.
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Five fossil human skulls show how the shape of the face and braincase of early humans changed over the past 2.5 million years. (from left to right: Australopithecus africanus, 2.5 million years old; Homo rudolfensis, 1.9 million years old; Homo erectus, ~ 1 million years old; Homo heidelbergensis, ~350,000 years old; Homo sapiens, ~ 4,800 years old)
Smithsonian human origins exhibit elicits awe, protests
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The fossil content consists of ammonites, belemnites, brachiopods, echinoderms, bivalves, crinoids, gastropods, ostracodes and benthic foraminifers.
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A newly unearthed fossil is the missing link between land and marine mammals: Standing two to three feet tall on legs adapted to wade through shallow water, the 48-million-year-old Indohyus is the missing link between modern-day whales and their land-lubbing ancestors.
Science Is Nifty
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This year they installed a wood burning stove to reduce their fossil fuel usage.
Times, Sunday Times
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This could either suggest a huge gap in Africa's fossil record - unlikely, say the scientists, given the amount of archaeological work undertaken in the area - or that the species "colonised" Africa from another continent at this time.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The church that does not evangelise must surely fossilise!
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Builders will no longer be forced to install solar panels, heat pumps and other measures to reduce the need for new homes to use fossil fuels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great change in the calcarous nannoplankton fossils between the Maestrichtian and Danian.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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It has usually been represented in ModE by gh, leaving its silent fossils in such words as dough, night, through, thought, thorough.
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Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian.
Perspective of Antarctica in 1911
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The fossils are also rich in the mineral pyrite, which is the work of decomposing bacteria; again, this suggests that they were once living.
Discover Blogs
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A cousin of mink, martens, otters, stoats, weasels and distantly related to seals, badgers are one of our oldest indigenous animals, whose fossil remains have been found to belong to the same era as mammoths.
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And if climate scientists are right, the cause of our problems is manic, consumptive, fossil-fuel driven human activity.
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Due to these reasons, South Korea is nowlooking for10 more nuclear power plants by 2030 to increase its renewable energy resources aspart of a 100-billion dollar plan to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
South Korea To Build 10 More Nuclear Plants by 2030.......
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And indeed, today's two species of seriema in southern South America appear to be derived from Pleistocene fossil birds which were once giant, flightless predators (known as phorusrhacoids) of now-extinct fauna.
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There are fossilized eggs and embryos of Maiasaura peeblesorum.
The Song of The Dodo
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For every one joule of food consumed in the United States, around 10 joules of fossil fuel energy have been used to produce it.
Duh pookie
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Fossilized bones that show evidence of human ancestor stone tool use and meat-eating push the earliest dates for those activities from about 2.5 million to 3.4 million years ago.
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Anticipating the query, I said, "And these are the huge beasts of the earth, and the cattle of the third great period of organic existence; and yonder, in the same apartment, you see, but at its further end, is the famous fossil man of Guadaloupe, locked up by the petrifactive agencies in a slab of limestone.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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They not only provide evidence for ancient vegetation and ecosystems, but also contain signals of palaeoclimates that are independent of evidence from other associated sediments and fossils.
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They can switch from fossil fuels to less polluting energy sources.
The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
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Abundant terrestrial gastropods found clustered around fossil plant detritus may have been deposit feeders scavenging dry portions of channel floors.
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And while jawless vertebrates were present in the Cambrian, it was not until the Ordovician that armored fish became common enough to leave a rich fossil record.
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Gas companies don't have to tell us what chemicals they're using because hydraulic fracturing is specifically exempted from disclosure requirements in the Safe Drinking Water Act through to a provision, nicknamed "the Halliburton Loophole," that was inserted by Dick Cheney into the 2005 Energy Policy Act. Right now, because of the Halliburton Loophole and other exemptions for dirty fossil fuels, the EPA has absolutely no power to regulate hydraulic fracturing.
Mark Ruffalo: Taking on Karl Rove
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Additional character state information was also incorporated from descriptions of holotypes and additional fossil material.
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With accumulation of more fossil material, it may also be possible to assign other skeletal elements to the tarsometatarsi, which may provide additional clues on the phylogenetic position of these fossil songbirds.
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Because many of the above estimates of divergence times far exceed the times of first appearance of land plants in the fossil record, they might be overestimates.
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In and of itself, cork in landfills is not necessarily a bad thing, but increasing the use of fossil fuels to transport it negates the recycling effort.
Corkfinger - Amorim, ReCORK America and cork recycling | Dr Vino's wine blog
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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The dissolution of limestones in weak acid is now a standard palaeontological laboratory technique, and has been used extensively to isolate phosphatic microfossils of all types from Paleozoic carbonates.
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This summer, he's been hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to journey to the Philippines and the remote Pacific ocean and study the mysterious cephalopod Nautilus, a living fossil over 500 million years old that just might be reaching the end of its expansive evolutionary rope.
Scott Thill: We've Entered the Age of Mass Extinction
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And it shows up everywhere: e.g. leaf damage in fossil leaves at PETM.
AGU Day 2: The role of CO2 in the earth’s history | Serendipity
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Rotting fish and taphonomy: what fossilizes? was the previous entry in this blog.
Sarracenia purpurea - The Panda's Thumb
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The carbon dioxide in vehicle exhaust derives from oil, a fossil fuel, formed many millions of years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spread over 112,000 acres, the Sterkfontein and associated sites contain the largest number of fossils found anywhere in the world.
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There, near the town of Rajahmundry, an international team of geologists has found marine fossils deposited immediately atop the largest ancient lava flow there.
Dinos Doomed by Mega-Eruption, Not Meteor? | Impact Lab
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Fuel costs are passed on through all kinds of consumable goods and services, hitting the pockets of even those who religiously shun fossil-fuel consumption and choose to travel by bicycle or foot.
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[18] Despite the aforementioned large number of fossils available to scientists in 1981, evolutionist Mark Ridley, who currently serves as a professor of zoology at punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favour of the theory of evolution as opposed to
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The fossils of the westernmost exposures of the Hoko River Formation are allochthonous, preserved in reworked concretions within conglomerates that were deposited as part of a submarine fan system during late Eocene time.
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What was decomposing the carcasses, given the total absence of fossils of the larger flies, such as flesh flies and blowflies (whose larvae, which we call maggots, feed on carrion)?
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A fossil assemblage accumulated by a predator thus may not represent any single mammal community from any one habitat.
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We will have to build quite a few more windmills to make much of a dent in our dependence on fossil fuels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ensemble is accessorized with my usual Fossil watch (gift), as well as red and white striped knee socks (Target) and a lovely red and black millefleur necklace, made for Valentine's Day last year by LilySea Designs (see all the pretties she made?)
Outfit, 01/31/08 (What if No One's Watching?)
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Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior.
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Modern cycads are tropical plants whose ancestors can be traced in the fossil record for about 300 million years.
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Furthermore, it is not always clear whether fossils from a given locality are from in situ rocks or from spoil or clasts in glacial drift.
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A sixty-eight-year-old Cape Town retiree, driving with his wife on backveld roads in the Karoo, had stopped to look for fossils at a roadcut when he had a fatal heart attack.
Memory Wall
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The geologist found many uncovered fossils in the valley.
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Unlike fossil fuel plants it is carbon neutral.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as early fossils, there are displays of stuffed animals and birds, including a male and female Great Bustard.
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For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred.
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Of course it doesn't alter a goldarn thing, but I guess I'd be better be prepared to discuss a million years of human and pre-human fossil remains throughout the eastern hemisphere, rather than taking cheap shots at the internal consistency of the Bible.
Where did Cain's wife come from blah blah blah
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There is more to paleontology than just using fossils to estimate the ages of rocks or their past environmental settings.
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We describe the oldest chiton, which is the oldest animal fossil, the oldest evidence for the trilobite ancestor; we believe we've solved the Shonisaur murder mystery; and now we're announcing the identity of this serial killer, the Triassic kraken.
NPR Topics: News
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Amateur fossil hunters have helped to uncover the oldest known ancestor to kangaroos, koalas, possums, and wombats.
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And in the fossils we examined, we saw no evidence of fractures, healed wounds, or specialized adaptations for managing the forces generated by head-butting, such as the adaptations that occur in bighorn sheep.
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Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
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The large number of artifacts found by miners in the gravels was a supporting evidence for the reasonableness of finding a fossilized skull there.
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The early Eocene is important for another reason: many orders of fossil mammals (especially primates, perissodactyls, artiodactyls, rabbits, whales, and bats) make their first appearances in the fossil record.
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Cyrus, please look up the subject 'fossilization'.
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I have no confidence that fossil fuel energy is going to be competitive.
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The 1980s saw a marked lack of clear statements about the lack of transitional fossils, or criticism of claimed fossil series.
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The thicker shelled species often carry a distinctive sculpture, which is also important in identifying fossil species.
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In summary, the cephalochordate affinity of Pikaia is at best only weakly indicated by the characters visible in fossils discovered so far.
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