A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis, lit. 'obtained by digging') is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past...

FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under MS-DOS compatible operating systems. FOSSIL is an...

A fossil fuel is a flammable carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the buried remains of prehistoric...

A living fossil is a term for an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record, though scientifically the...

Fossil Group, Inc., is an American fashion design and manufacturer founded in 1984 by Tom Kartsotis and based in Richardson, Texas. Their brands include...

A transitional fossil is any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group...

Look up fossil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fossil is the mineralized remains of a dead organism. Fossil may also refer to: Fossil (novel), a...

Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp...

Fossil water, fossil groundwater, or paleowater is an ancient body of water that has been contained in some undisturbed space, typically groundwater in...

the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geologic time,...

Following is a list of protected areas where fossils are preserved, known as fossil parks or fossil reserves, worldwide by country. Wadi Al-Hitan - Valley...

The fossil trade is the purchase and sale of fossils. This is at times done illegally with stolen fossils, and important scientific specimens are lost...

fossil track or ichnite (Greek "ἴχνιον" (ichnion) – a track, trace or footstep) is a fossilized footprint. This is a type of trace fossil. A fossil trackway...

(1984). "Cephalocarida: living fossil without a fossil record". In N. Eldredge; S. M. Stanley (eds.). Living Fossils. New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 181–186...

Fossil Fighters is a role-playing video game series published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS consoles. Its gameplay revolves around digging...

dictionary. A trace fossil, also called an ichnofossil (/ˈɪknoʊˌfɒsɪl/; from Ancient Greek ἴχνος (íkhnos) 'trace, track'), is a fossil record of biological...

A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in use due to its presence in an idiom or phrase. An example of a word is 'ado' in 'much ado'...

(GSI) currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits. Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh is notable for its life-size...

Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil...

Romance languages, the sense of the word was extended to Baltic amber (fossil resin) from as early as the late 13th century. At first called white or...

Fossil is a science fiction book by American writer Hal Clement, as part of the Isaac's Universe series. It was first printed in November 1993. Copyright...

fossil, many during the 1980s. It is common to designate a fossilized species, rather than a single specimen or a category of fossils. State fossils are...

Fossil Ridge may refer to Fossil Ridge High School (Fort Worth, Texas) Fossil Ridge High School (Fort Collins, Colorado) Fossil Ridge Park in Los Angeles...

This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single...

Hoover, who had found some fossil remains on his ranch. As of the 2020 census, Fossil had a population of 447. The Fossil post office was established...

Fossil wood, also known as fossilized tree, is wood that is preserved in the fossil record. Over time the wood will usually be the part of a plant that...

Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political...

Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas–Not Less is a 2022 book by Alex Epstein that argues in support of...

Das Fossil (The Fossil) (1925) is a German comedy by Carl Sternheim, and is included as the fourth part of his play cycle, Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben...

carries only some of these fibers. Extant monotremes lack teeth as adults. Fossil forms and modern platypus young have a "tribosphenic" form of molars (with...

Fossil fuel phase-out is the proposed gradual global reduction of the use and production of fossil fuels to zero, to reduce air pollution, limit climate...

The Fossil Grove is a group of plant fossils located within Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland. It was discovered in 1887 and contains the fossilised stumps...

coprolith) is fossilized feces. Coprolites are classified as trace fossils as opposed to body fossils, as they give evidence for the animal's behaviour (in this...

Fossil fuel subsidies are energy subsidies on fossil fuels. Under a narrow definition, fossil fuel subsidies totalled around $725 billion (0.6% of global...

Fossil Creek (Yavapai: Hakhavsuwa or Vialnyucha) is a perennial stream accessed by a forest road near the community of Camp Verde in the U.S. state of...

Fossil Mountain refers to several mountains, including: Fossil Mountain (Alberta) in Alberta, Canada Fossil Mountain (Alaska) in Alaska, United States...

fossils or oofossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by ancient animals. As evidence of the physiological processes of an animal, egg fossils...

Fossil Bluff is a seasonal British aircraft refuelling station located on the east coast of Alexander Island in Antarctica. In operation since 1961, its...

The Fossil Falls is a unique geological feature, located in the Coso Range in Inyo County, California in the United States. Volcanic activity in the mountain...

of a "living fossil" in popular science because it was considered the sole remaining member of a taxon otherwise known only from fossils (a biological...

dominance continued throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The fossil record shows that birds are feathered dinosaurs, having evolved from earlier...

A compression fossil is a fossil preserved in sedimentary rock that has undergone physical compression. While it is uncommon to find animals preserved...

A fossil beach, also known as a paleo-beach, fossil strandline or raised beach, is an ancient oceanic or lacustrine beach preserved in fossil form due...

fossil. For example, the holotype of Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (Duriatitan), a large herbivorous dinosaur from the early Cretaceous, is a fossil leg...

The following tables give an overview of notable finds of homini fossils and remains relating to human evolution, beginning with the formation of the...

Burrow fossils are the remains of burrows - holes or tunnels excavated into the ground or seafloor - by animals to create a space suitable for habitation...

risks of damage to the unique fossils, and other museums preferred to display casts of the fossil assembly. The original fossils were returned to Ethiopia...

Hell Creek Formation, a geological region renowned for many significant fossil discoveries from the Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene. Based solely...

Fossil Fighters: Champions is a 2010 video game developed by Nintendo SPD, Red Entertainment, M2, and Artdink and published by Nintendo. The game is a...

Natural gas (also gas, methane gas or fossil gas) is a fossil fuel, naturally occurring in geological formations. Typically, the gas is a mix of gaseous...

The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local...

The Fossil Hill Member is a Middle Triassic-aged rock unit. The Fossil Hill unit occurs as a member of both the Prida and Favret formations. It outcrops...

The Fossil and Mo-clay Museum (Danish: Fossil- og Molermuseet), located in northern Mors, boasts the largest collection of moler (diatomite) fossils in...

A fossil hash is either a sediment or sedimentary rock composed predominately of fragmented fossils of either shells, tergites, bones, teeth, other hard...

The Clarkia fossil beds (also known locally as the Fossil Bowl) is a Miocene Latah Formation lagerstätte near Clarkia, Idaho. The fossil beds were laid...

Fossil Fighters: Frontier is a 2014 role-playing video game developed by Spike Chunsoft, with assistance from Red Entertainment and Cyclone Zero, and published...

A polystrate fossil is a fossil of a single organism (such as a tree trunk) that extends through more than one geological stratum. The word polystrate...

The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene assemblage of fossils dating between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old, located near the community of Gray in Washington...

Big Fossil Creek is a stream in Tarrant County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Big Fossil Creek was so named on account of the fossils found there by an...

fossil-based electric utilities ask for "recognition" that fossil fuel usage will increase in the future and suggest that CCS will allow the fossil fuel...

Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located 15 miles (24 km) west of Kemmerer, Wyoming...

class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most successful of all early animals,...

location with rockhounds and fossil hunters because of the variety and abundance of Ordovician fossils found on it. Fossil Mountain has also been the site...

The Moroccan fossil trade is the large industry surrounding the excavation, preparation and international sale of fossils from Morocco. Morocco contains...

The Fossil (Japanese: 化石, Hepburn: Kaseki) is a Japanese TV miniseries which screened in eight parts between 31 January and 20 March 1972. It was directed...

modern nuclear reactors, Radiation Information Network, April 2005 Oklo Fossil Reactors NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day: NASA, Oklo, Fossile Reactor...

Fossil (Persian: فسیل) is a 2023 Iranian comedy film directed by Karim Amini. Esi Amouee (Bahram Afshari), Saeed (Hadi Kazemi), and Safa (Iman Safa), members...

an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist. She became known internationally for her discoveries in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the...

The Pokémon Fossil Museum (Japanese: ポケモン化石博物館, Hepburn: Pokemon kaseki hakubutsukan) is a travelling exhibition based on the Pokémon media franchise,...

Dinosaur Fossils National Park is a protected fossil site located near the town of Bagh in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The park conserves Late...

Coast Fossil Park is a fossil park near Langebaanweg, Western Cape, South Africa, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Cape Town. The fossil sites...

Shivalik Fossil Park, also known as the Suketi Fossil Park , is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument fossil park in the Sirmaur district in the Indian...

Embryo fossils are the preserved remains of unhatched or unborn organisms. Many fossils of the 580 million year old Doushantuo Formation have been interpreted...

Fossil preparation is a complex of tasks that can include excavating, revealing, conserving, and replicating the ancient remains and traces of organisms...

Ghughua Fossil Park is a National Park, located near Shahpura in Madhya Pradesh, India, in which plant fossils belonging to 31 genera of 18 families have...

Fossil Detectives is a 2008 BBC Television documentary series in which presenter Hermione Cockburn travels across Great Britain exploring fossil sites...

141150°W / 50.797183; -121.141150 The McAbee Fossil Beds is a Heritage Site that protects an Eocene Epoch fossil locality east of Cache Creek, British Columbia...

Fossil Fuel Beta (FFß) measures the percent change in excess (market-adjusted) stock returns for every 1 percent increase in fossil fuel prices. For example...

The Fossil Island (化石島, Kasekitō) is a Japanese manga by Osamu Tezuka that was published as a book in 1951. At the mysterious Fossil Island, three visitors...

Fossil Hunter is a novel written by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. The sequel to Far-Seer, it is the second book of the Quintaglio Ascension...

Fossil Fighters, known as We Are Fossil Diggers in Japan, is a 2008 role-playing video game developed by Nintendo SPD, Red Entertainment, M2, and Artdink...

Refusal Fossil is the sixth album by Ruins, released in 1997 through Skin Graft Records. In 2007, Skin Graft released a special edition with five extra...

Fossil Lake (designated by the Bureau of Land Management as Fossil Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern) is a dry lakebed in the remote high desert...

The fossil fuels lobby includes paid representatives of corporations involved in the fossil fuel industry (oil, gas, coal), as well as related industries...

101°14′20″W / 33.660364°N 101.238935°W / 33.660364; -101.238935 The Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum was a creationist museum in Crosbyton, Texas, United States, opened...

Fossil Downs Station is a pastoral lease and cattle station located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north east of Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley region...

Fossil Mountain is a prominence that is located on a spur in the Western Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona. The summit of this prominence has an...

display. 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 Culture is an album by Peter Frohmader and Richard Pinhas, released on September 22, 1999, through Cuneiform Records. All music is composed by Peter...

Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked...

Cephalopod egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by cephalopods. The fossil record of cephalopod eggs is scant since their soft, gelatinous...

exported from various source countries to countries reliant on these fossil fuels. Fossil fuel exports are dominated by a relatively small group of countries...

preserved still within the mother's body, or associated with fossil embryos. Some fossil eggs possibly laid by fish cannot be confidently distinguished...

Fossil Record is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering palaeontology. It was established in 1998 as the Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für...

carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) are sub-millimetric organic remains of organisms preserved in sedimentary strata. This category of fossils has traditionally...

The registered name of the site in the list of World Heritage Sites is Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa. According to the South African Journal of...

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels is a 2014 book that advocates for the expansion of fossil fuels. Epstein runs the Center for Industrial Progress, a for-profit...

fossils are the fossilised remains of sea urchins, spiny marine invertebrates that live on the seabed. Humans have been interested in these fossils for...

The Fossil Cabin near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, United States, was built in 1932 as a roadside attraction. The cabin is built of dinosaur bones excavated...

the fossil was nicknamed Sámuel, because the twenty-first of August is the name day of biblical judge Samuel in Hungarian tradition. Since, the fossil has...

Renewable fuels are commonly blended with fossil fuels. Hydrogen, which is rarely used, can be obtained from either fossil fuels or renewable energy. Various...

Salkhan Fossils Park, officially known as Sonbhadra Fossils Park, is a fossil park in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 12 km from Robertsganj, near...

structure of the stem tissue may be partially retained. Unlike other plant fossils, which are typically impressions or compressions, petrified wood is a three-dimensional...

Amkhoi Fossil Park is a fossil park located near Illambazar in the Birbhum District of West Bengal, India. It contains fossilized wood 15 to 20 million...

2022. Retrieved 23 April 2024. "Not all green steel is fossil-free steel – here is why – Fossil free steel". SSAB. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2024...

The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a konservat-lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions...

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation center near Glen Rose, Texas. They specialize in the breeding of endangered species,...

reductions over the past decade, making them more competitive with traditional fossil fuels. In some geographic localities, photovoltaic solar or onshore wind...

The Edelman Fossil Park & Museum, located in Mantua Township, New Jersey, features a 66-million-year-old 6-inch (150 mm) bone bed set into a 65-acre (26 ha)...

scientific and educational values of fossils. The first annual National Fossil Day was hosted on October 13, 2010, as a fossil-focused day during Earth Science...

and paleontology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant fossils from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction...

occurred and practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil record. It lasted for about 13 to 25 million years and resulted in the divergence...

The Murgon fossil site is a paleontological site of early Eocene age in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. It lies near the town of Murgon, some 270 km...

The Fossil Wrist PDA is a smartwatch that runs Palm OS. The newer incarnation, which does not include Palm OS, is called the Fossil WristNet watch. The...

second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The number of additional fossil species is estimated between 60,000 and 100,000, and the proportion of undescribed...

The Himalayan fossil hoax (also called the Himalayan hoax or the case of the peripatetic fossils) is a case of scientific misconduct perpetrated by Indian...

but are now extinct. In general, viruses cannot leave behind physical fossils; therefore indirect evidence is used to reconstruct the past. For example...

other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. It is a fossil fuel, formed when plants decay into peat which is converted into coal by...

Fossil Ridge Park is a public property in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles County, California. It is owned by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, which is...

around 70% were fossil fuel subsidies. About 20% went to renewable power generation, 6% to biofuels and just over 3% to nuclear. Fossil fuel subsidies...

Fossil Beach, at Sedbury, Gloucestershire, England, is beneath the Sedbury Cliffs by the River Severn and is known as a rich source of easily discovered...

The Takapuna Fossil Forest is a geographical feature located along the coastline between Takapuna Beach and Thorne Beach in Auckland, New Zealand. It consists...

The Fossil Hill Formation is a geological formation in Ontario, Canada. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. Earth sciences portal...

Akal Wood Fossil Park is a National Geological Monument of India located in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. It is also a Biodiversity Heritage Site. It...

Chazy Fossil Reef is a United States National Natural Landmark spanning three Lake Champlain islands in Clinton County, New York, and Grand Isle County...

Fossil Forest is a palaeobotanical site near Brymbo, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is known as a significant area of upper Carboniferous fossils,...

the hand pointing to the rear. They could take off from the ground, and fossil trackways show that at least some species were able to run, wade, and/or...

The Gallatin Fossil Plant is a coal and natural gas-fired power plant near Gallatin, Tennessee operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The plant...

Fossil Fools Day is an international environmental demonstration day on April 1 annually. The name is a play on the terms "Fossil Fuels" and "April Fools'...

Repedea Hill Fossil Site (Romanian: Locul fosilifer Dealul Repedea) is a nature reserve located 9 km south of Iași, in the historical region of Moldavia...

Fossil Cave (5L81), formerly known as The Green Waterhole, is a cave in the Limestone Coast region of south-eastern South Australia. It is located in the...

Beach Fossils is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2009. They are currently signed to Bayonet Records, having previously...

or recently extinct mammals. For extinct primate species, see: list of fossil primates. Genus †Adelobasileus Lucas & Hunt 1990 Genus †Bocaconodon Montellano...

The Fossil Record, 1980-1987 > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 24, 2012. Fossil Record 1980–1987 at Discogs (list of releases) The Fossil Record...

The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum - Home of the Somerville Collection is located in the city of Bathurst in regional New South Wales Australia and...

inorganic objects, markings, or impressions that might be mistaken for fossils. Pseudofossils may be misleading, as some types of mineral deposits can...

John Sevier Fossil Plant, commonly known as John Sevier Steam Plant, was a 0.88-gigawatt (880 MW) coal-fired power plant located in Hawkins County, Tennessee...

pace quick enough to keep up with consumption. An example is carbon-based fossil fuels. The original organic matter, with the aid of heat and pressure, becomes...

The Shawnee Fossil Plant is a coal-fired power plant owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, located near Paducah, Kentucky. The closest...

"Stan" (NHMAD 2020.00001, formerly BHI 3033) is a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil found in the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota, just outside of Buffalo in...

Fossil Mountain is a mountain located south of Skoki Mountain in Banff National Park, Canada. The mountain was named in 1906 by M.P. Bridgland, of the...

and Fossil Park in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, is a park that houses fossilized remains and petrified eggs of dinosaurs. It is a man-made fossil park...

on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels is one of a series of international conferences for planning a phase-out of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, and...

The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, formerly known as the Morden and District Museum, is a fossil museum located in Morden, Manitoba, in the lower level...

A Fossil-Lagerstätte (German pronunciation: [ˈlaːɡɐˌʃtɛtə] – from Lager 'storage, lair' and Stätte 'place'; pl. Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit...

Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York, United States, is a petrified forest and one of the oldest known forests. Located near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County...

on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them. The primary objective of biostratigraphy...

Bull Run Fossil Plant, commonly known as Bull Run Steam Plant, is a retired 889-megawatt (MW), coal-fired electric generating station owned and operated...

The Cutler Fossil Site (8DA2001) is a sinkhole near Biscayne Bay in Palmetto Bay, Florida, which is south of Miami. The site has yielded bones of Pleistocene...

Fossil Cycad National Monument was a national monument in the U.S. state of South Dakota beginning in 1922. The site contained hundreds of fossils of the...

using these fuels to produce hydrogen is beneficial, given global warming. Fossil fuel reforming does not eliminate carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere...

This is a list of fossil primates—extinct primates for which a fossil record exists. Primates are generally thought to have evolved from a small, unspecialized...

The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The site has...

the biosphere to the lithosphere. The term taphomorph is used to describe fossil structures that represent poorly-preserved, deteriorated remains of a mixture...

considered some of the series' "Fossil Pokémon", species that are brought back to life through fossils. Unlike other fossil Pokémon, the quartet are composed...

the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago. Fossils similar to the living species, belonging to the genus Ginkgo, extend back...

Fossil Ridge High School is the newest of four public high schools in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. Voters approved the opening of Fossil Ridge...

The Suedberg Fossil Site is a Mid-Devonian (~375 mya) fossil pit that belongs to the upper Mahantango Formation. It is located in a small clearing in...

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2012 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods...

gas emissions from energy quickly and sustainably, mostly by phasing-down fossil fuels and changing as many processes as possible to operate on low carbon...

CI1 fossils refer to alleged morphological evidence of microfossils found in five CI1 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fall: Alais, Orgueil, Ivuna, Tonk...

Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ~ Sunken Fossil World (Japanese: 東方剛欲異聞　～ 水没した沈愁地獄; lit. "Strange Tale of Avarice ~ Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow") is a shoot 'em...

The Lepidoptera fossil record encompasses all butterflies and moths that lived before recorded history. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in...

have an uncertain position within Bilateria. Animals first appeared in the fossil record in the late Cryogenian period and diversified in the subsequent Ediacaran...

extensive fossil remains. The UNESCO listing is for two separate areas where fossils from the Cenozoic Era have been found: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites...

Trace fossils are classified in various ways for different purposes. Traces can be classified taxonomically (by morphology), ethologically (by behavior)...

The Fossil room II is one of two paleontological display rooms in Teylers Museum. The Fossil room II was built in 1885 as an extension of the first Fossil...

Bluff Downs fossil site is a paleontological site of Pliocene age in northern Queensland, Australia. It is one of the most significant fossil sites of Pliocene...

with coral fossils. This makes some corals useful index fossils. Coral fossils are not restricted to reef remnants, and many solitary fossils are found...

The Stonerose Interpretive Center & Eocene Fossil Site is a 501c(3) non-profit public museum and fossil dig located in Republic, Washington. The center...

Fossil is the default file system in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It serves the network protocol 9P and runs as a user space daemon, like most Plan 9 file servers...

were enigmatic tubular and frond-shaped, mostly sessile, organisms. Trace fossils of these organisms have been found worldwide, and represent the earliest...

Fossil fuel drilling may refer to: Oil well Offshore drilling Deepwater drilling Drilling fluid This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

Cephalonega stepanovi is a fossil organism from Ediacaran deposits of the Arkhangelsk Region, Russia. It was described by Mikhail A. Fedonkin in 1976....

Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave is the sixth novel in the Danny Dunn series of juvenile science fiction/adventure books written by Raymond Abrashkin and...

Kuzū Fossil Museum (佐野市葛生化石館, Sano-shi Kuzū kaseki-kan) is a registered museum in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan that opened with the merger of Kuzū into...

The Fossil Hunters is a painting by the American artist Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978). Painted in 1926–28, it was the largest painting he had done at the...

Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found, at over 90% recovered by bulk. FMNH PR 2081 was discovered on August 12, 1990, by American explorer and fossil collector...

A phase-out of fossil fuel vehicles refers to bans or discouragement (for example via taxes) on the sale of new fossil-fuel powered vehicles or use of...

10%) A fossil fuel power station is a thermal power station that burns fossil fuel, such as coal, oil, or natural gas, to produce electricity. Fossil fuel...

Dated to the Late Jurassic epoch, it is the largest known Stegosaurus fossil, preserving skin impressions and throat ossicles alongside a mostly complete...

Coming.) The book concerns three adopted sisters, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil. Each of the girls is discovered as a baby by Matthew Brown (Great-Uncle-Matthew...

portrayals of egg fossils. Humans have encountered egg fossils for thousands of years. In Stone Age Mongolia, local peoples fashioned fossil dinosaur eggshell...

Kingston Fossil Plant, commonly known as Kingston Steam Plant, is a 1.4-gigawatt (1,398 MW) coal-fired power plant located in Roane County, just outside...

The Fossil Beach Cement Works is a former manufacturing plant for cement and archaeological site, located adjacent to The Esplanade in Mornington, on the...

implies a fused cephalon (head) and thorax, there is currently neither fossil nor embryological evidence that arachnids ever had a separate thorax-like...

advocates for the benefits and use of fossil fuels. Epstein is the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (2014) and Fossil Future (2022). He is a former adjunct...

The Johnsonville Fossil Plant was a 1.5-gigawatt (1,500 MW), coal power plant located in New Johnsonville, Humphreys County, Tennessee, United States....

This fossil flora in Turkey stems from at least six Pliocene deposits in Güvem and Beşkonak villages, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Ankara, 22 kilometres...

Wadadam Fossil Park is located in a village known as Wadadam in Sironcha taluka in the district of Gadchiroli of Maharashtra State. It is about 19 km (12 mi)...

Indian Springs Trace Fossil Natural Area is a 40-acre privately owned site on the Indian Springs Ranch in Fremont County, Colorado. It was designated a...

of fossil fuels is a common source of flue gas. They are usually combusted with ambient air, with the largest part of the flue gas from most fossil-fuel...

The Allen Fossil Plant was a 741-megawatt (MW), coal power plant located south of Memphis, Tennessee. It generated electricity from 1959 to 2018. At the...

The Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed (or Talbragar Fish Bed) is a paleontological site in New South Wales, Australia, dating to the Kimmeridgian age of the Late...

The Messel Pit is a fossil preservation site in Hesse, central Germany, dated to the Eocene epoch (about 47 Ma). The fossil-bearing rock unit is a geologic...

animals List of dinosaur genera List of fossil bird genera List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species List of fossil primates Lists of prehistoric fish...

bodied fossils inside of ironstone concretions, and was one of the first fossil sites discovered to preserve soft bodied fossils. The Mazon Creek fossil beds...

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

The National Fossil Wood Park, Tiruvakkarai is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument located in the Villupuram District in the Indian state of Tamil...

limestone that contains noticeable quantities of fossils or fossil traces. If a particular type of fossil dominates, a more specialized term can be used...

The Alcoota Fossil Beds are an important paleontological Lagerstätte in the Northern Territory of Australia located on Alcoota Station in the locality...

Fossil Mountain (10,921 feet (3,329 m)) is located in the Teton Range, within the Jedediah Smith Wilderness of Caribou-Targhee National Forest, U.S. state...

Wheeler High School is a public high school in Fossil, Oregon, United States. It is in the Fossil School District, and competes jointly with Spray and...

describe a variety of masculinity associated with the petroculture and fossil fuel industry, including both the workers in the industry and promoters...

probably had a major impact on the structure of marine communities. The fossil record indicates that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. It probably targeted...

The Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum is a private dinosaur museum in Glendive, Montana, in the United States. The museum was founded by Otis Kline,...

more common during the Ediacaran, but it was not until the Cambrian that fossil diversity seems to have rapidly increased, an event known as the Cambrian...

The Kvabebi fossil site (Georgian: ქვაბების ფაუნა) is a Pliocene paleontological locality in eastern Georgia's Iori Plateau, known for its rich vertebrate...

exhibitions, which attract up to 2 million visitors annually, include fossils, current cultures from around the world, and interactive programming demonstrating...

1990s. The timing of the ejecta layer, together with the match between fossil‑record ecological patterns and modeled environmental disruptions (such as...

85 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, with their earliest fossils appearing over 55 mya, during the Paleocene. Primates produced successive...

National Fossil Wood Park, Sathanur is a National Geo-heritage Monument of India located at Sathanur in Perambalur district, Tamil Nadu. This park is located...

The fossil springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis simplex, is a species of small freshwater spring snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks or micromollusks...

the town of the same name, it documents well-preserved deepwater marine fossils dating to the late Santonian stage of the Cretaceous. It is often associated...

"Living Fossil" is a science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, on the concepts of human extinction and future evolution. It was first...

The Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (NFFO) refers to a collection of orders requiring the electricity distribution network operators in England and Wales to...

The Fayum is a region and an important fossil Lagerstätte in northern Egypt.[citation needed] The region comprises the Fayum Basin, which is intensively...

The Mutdapilly fossil locality is a fossil site in the geological formation Walloon Coal Measures of Queensland, Australia. It contains fossilized impressions...

The fossil record of fire first appears with the establishment of a land-based flora in the Middle Ordovician period, 470 million years ago. This led to...

The Fossil Ridge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located approximately 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison National Forest...

lineage that has left no fossil evidence, but can still be inferred to exist or have existed because of gaps in the fossil record or genomic evidence...

The Geiseltal fossil deposit is located in the former lignite district of the Geiseltal south of the city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is an...

and founder and director of Fossil Free Media, a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to end fossil fuels. Fossil Free Media is the home of Clean...

Australopithecus africanus ever found in South Africa. Many Australopithecus fossils have been found near Sterkfontein, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest...

The Byblos Fossil Museum (a.k.a. Memory of Time) is a museum in Byblos, Lebanon. This museum contains fossil collections of sharks, eels, shrimps, squids...

kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails. Fossils of the genus have been found in the western United States and in Portugal...

In paleontology, a zombie taxon (plural zombie taxa) is a fossil that was washed out of sediments and re-deposited in rocks and/or sediments millions of...

("speciation") in the fossil record. Marine fossils are mostly used to measure extinction rates because of their superior fossil record and stratigraphic...

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2017 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods...

Stan Wood was a self-taught fossil hunter known for his significant palaeontological discoveries at scale and is arguably most celebrated for refocusing...

largest representative of their clade due to the incompleteness of the fossil record and many of the sizes given are merely estimates since no complete...

This paleomammalogy list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2020, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries...

developed during the late Ordovician period. They are first represented in the fossil record from the Silurian by two groups of fish: the armoured fish known...

Reptile egg fossils are the fossilized remains of eggs laid by reptiles. The fossil record of reptile eggs goes back at least as far as the Early Permian...

wintershofensis: fossil (Early/Middle Miocene of Wintershof West, Germany) – may be close to extant genus Ninox "Strix" edwardsi – fossil (Middle/Late? Miocene)...

merger, over the timescale of the age of the universe. Fossil galaxy groups, fossil groups, or fossil clusters are believed to be the end-result of galaxy...

Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. Fossils that had been found in the Pliocene Blancan Beds in Llano Estacado, Texas...

where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. Over five billion species are...

The Akron Fossils & Science Center is a small museum and learning center located in Copley Township, Ohio, United States, a few miles west of Akron. The...

erosion without a change in sea level. A perched coastline is an ancient (fossil) shoreline positioned above the present shoreline. Just off the coast of...

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a Pliocene-age site near Hagerman, Idaho. The 4,351-acre (17.61 km2) Monument is internationally significant...

Mizunami Fossil Museum (瑞浪市化石博物館, Mizunami-shi Kaseki Hakubutsukan) is a museum of fossils in Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The museum, which opened...

belonging to the order Lepidodendrales. It is well preserved and common in the fossil record. Like other Lepidodendrales, species of Lepidodendron grew as large-tree-like...

Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, is the location of an important Ice Age fossil excavation near Snowmass Village, Colorado. Fossils were first discovered...

The Fighting Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen found in the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1971. It preserves a Protoceratops andrewsi...

The Tocantins Fossil Trees Natural Monument (Portuguese: Monumento Natural das Árvores Fossilizadas do Tocantins) is a natural monument in the state of...

legend, assassination by poisoned garments in Mughal India, fossil-related legends, fossil-related place names, and other topics in scholarly journals...

that disappears for one or more periods from the fossil record, only to appear again either in later fossil records, or as actual living organisms, and often...

unclear. Fossils of Spriggina are known from the late Ediacaran period in what is now South Australia. Spriggina floundersi is the official fossil emblem...

Widows Creek Fossil Plant (also known as the Widows Creek Power Plant) was a 1.6-gigawatt (1,600 MW) coal power plant, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) east of Stevenson...

Cumberland Fossil Plant is a pulverized coal-fired power station located west of Cumberland City, Tennessee, US, on the south bank of Lake Barkley on the...

rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels such as oil. Biofuel can be produced from plants or from agricultural...

pair of appendages that functioned as limbs. However, all known living and fossil arthropods have grouped segments into tagmata in which segments and their...

Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois, United States. Its classification has been the subject of controversy, and interpretations of the fossil have likened...

largely excludes conventional fossil fuel plant sources, and is only used to describe a particular subset of operating fossil fuel power systems, specifically...

million years ago (Lutetian stage) based on dating of the fossil site. The only known fossil, called Ida, was discovered in 1983 at the Messel pit, a disused...

The Fossil Fuel Levy (FFL) is a levy paid by suppliers of electricity from non-renewable energy sources in the United Kingdom. The costs are shared by...

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main features of the monument are a valley of the Niobrara...

fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a still-unknown South East Asian hominoid population; but fossil proto-orangutans...

about 1–2% per year. As of 2022, 80% of energy consumption is derived from fossil fuels. More recently, renewable energy has been growing rapidly, averaging...

On July 7, 2008, a 15-km length of the coast constituting the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List. The area was...

dinosaur fossils have been documented. List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils List...

"Precambrian rabbits" or "fossil rabbits in the Precambrian" are reported to have been among responses given by the biologist J. B. S. Haldane when asked...

online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms. The Paleobiology Database originated...

traditional characteristics used to classify living and fossil Zygoptera such as wing venation, so fossil taxa will need to be revisited. The results of the...

NGC 1491, also known as LBN 704, SH2-206 or the Fossil Footprint Nebula, is an emission type bright nebula located about 9,800 light years away from Earth...

Fossil Springs Wilderness is an 11,550-acre (4,674 ha) wilderness area within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is at the bottom...

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative is a joint diplomatic and civil society campaign to create a treaty to stop fossil fuel exploration...

February 1924) was a Scottish early fossil collector. Gray created scientifically organised collections of fossils for several museums. Elizabeth Anderson...

788543 The Aurora Fossil Museum is a natural science museum in Aurora, North Carolina. The museum's collection is built around fossils recovered from the...

species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous, and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform...

This list of lost fossil sites is a list of localities in which abundant, well-preserved, or scientifically significant fossils were once found but are...

Skinnera is an Ediacaran-aged fossil found in Australia. It was discovered by A.L. Halliday and M.M. Bruer near Mount Skinner in the locality of Anmatjere...

Heteropneustes fossilis, also known as Asian stinging catfish or fossil cat, is a species of airsac catfish found in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal...

number of fossil sites from the Upper Miocene (MN10) have been found. Nine sites have been discovered with predominantly vertebrate fossils, invertebrates...

found in Pilocene strata in Yunali, Taiwan.The Taiwanese team discovered fossil remains of the extinct animal, including a nearly intact skull, thoracic...

in gasoline. They continue to be used by other industries, notably the fossil fuel industry, even using the same PR firms and researchers. Much of the...

the world in 2019. Fossil fuels act as a major economic boost in Norway, meanwhile driving down the domestic energy costs. Fossil fuels operations in...

lichenised autotroph. In 2026, research comparing fossils of a prototaxite species with other eukaryotic fossils in the same location found it to be structurally...

doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1997.tb00458.x. Carnarvonia venosa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. (Burgess Shale species 35) v t...

The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management is the head of the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management within the...

However, most of this was only found in the search for animal and/or plant fossils, and it was not until soil science first developed that buried soils of...

The Huayuan biota is a diverse collection of fossils dominated by arthropods, sponges and cnidarians and including soft-bodied forms preserved with cellular...

of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Since it is concerned with understanding...

the Late Miocene. The oldest member of the genus is Homo habilis, with fossil records of just over 2 million years ago. H. erectus appeared about 2 million...

(Ethiopia) † Corvus galushai – (fossil: Big Sandy Late Miocene of Wickieup, United States) † Corvus praecorax – (fossil: Early Pliocene of Perpignan, France;...

The Geilston Bay fossil site is a paleontological site of Late Oligocene (or possibly Early Miocene) age in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. It lies...

Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is the name given to fossil KNM-WT 15000, a nearly complete skeleton of a Homo erectus youth who lived 1.5 to...

Zuojhen Man is a human fossil discovered in Tsai-Liao Creek (Chinese: 菜寮溪) in Zuojhen District, Tainan City. The fossil was once determined to be approximately...

anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. Cuvier's work is considered the foundation of vertebrate paleontology...

Springs Group, also known as the Bitter Springs Formation is a Precambrian fossil locality in Australia, which preserves stromatolites and microorganisms...

family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Their first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse...

Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977–92 is a compilation album by XTC released in 1996. It was their third such greatest hits album following 1982's Waxworks:...

a very old megascopic fossil, and thus eukaryote. It is a trace fossil and thus evidence of activity, rather than a body fossil. Myxomitodes stirlingensis...

gas Midstream – Sector of the oil and gas industry Natural gas – Gaseous fossil fuel Natural-gas condensate – Low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids...

The International Fossil Plant Names Index (acronym IFPNI) is an online database of paleobotany. The site was launched in May 2014 to list the scientific...

cause environmental damage but are generally far more sustainable than fossil fuel sources. The role of non-renewable energy sources in sustainable energy...

Lepidenteron is a trace fossil, usually interpreted as a burrow of a polychaete worm, found in marine geological formations from the Triassic to the Miocene...

Fossil Creek Bridge is a closed-spandrel deck arch bridge built in the U.S. state of Arizona during 1924–25 on Cottonwood-Camp Verde-Pine road across Fossil...

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs on Nova Scotia's Bay of Fundy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a particularly well-preserved fossil site. Fossil skeletons embedded...

The Yea Flora Fossil Site is a roadside cutting on Limestone Road, Yea, Victoria, Australia. It contains fossils of genus Baragwanathia, some of the world's...

West in 1876 during the Bone Wars, a period of fervent competition for fossil hunting between two real-life paleontologists noted for their intense rivalry...

in the Middle Eocene, with some of the earliest representatives found in fossil deposits in Southeast Asia. Throughout their evolutionary history they have...

Fossils is a compilation album by indie rock band Dinosaur Jr., released in August 1991 on SST Records. It contains three 7" singles the band had previously...

A list of prehistoric and extant species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, located in present-day Hancock Park, a city park on the...

to the three living genera, Ricinulei has a fossil-record spanning over 300 million years, including fossils from the Late Carboniferous of Euramerica and...

It is a monotypic genus, containing only Tamga hamulifera. The holotype fossil material of Tamga was found in the Zimnii Bereg locality of the Ust' Pinega...

name given to an assembly of fossils preserved in northeastern China from the Middle to Late Jurassic. It includes fossils from the Tiaojishan Formation...

The species Berriasella jacobi traditionally has been regarded an index fossil defining the base of the Cretaceous, however since 2016 this had been replaced...

a substantial expansion of gas and oil production at the same time that fossil fuel industries are under pressure to reduce output in order to mitigate...

arm. The scientific name – "the most unimaginative name ever applied to a fossil" in the view of Storrs L. Olson, does not in any way refer to the bird's...

embryology, bioinformatics and scientific computing. The study of insect fossils is known as paleoentomology. It is estimated that the class of insects...

It was named by ANCA after the Glossopteris fossil plant found in the upper part of the gully. Fossil Wood Point (70°50′S 68°2′E / 70.833°S 68.033°E...

The Ajax Mine Fossil Reef is a heritage-listed site of palaeontological and geological significance in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The site...

organization addressing the climate crisis. Its stated goal is to end the use of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy by building a global, grassroots...

in as little as 6 milliseconds. Few traces of frogfishes remain in the fossil record, though Fowlerichthys monodi is known from the Miocene of Algeria...

explored by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope starting in 1877. Fossil remains of many Permian tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) have been found...

small isolated section of the Hell Creek Formation. In 1966, the Hell Creek Fossil Area was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park...

is noted for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales. Based on argon radiometric...

studies of Tertiary climate in western North America through analysis of fossil angiosperm leaves. Spicer, Bob; Leopold, Estella (2006). "Jack A. Wolfe...

eutrophication. The fossil record from the Ediacaran Period is sparse, as more easily fossilized hard-shelled animals had yet to evolve. Most fossils of the time...

since the late Proterozoic. It is the science that studies contemporary and fossil palynomorphs (paleopalynology), including pollen, spores, orbicules, dinocysts...

Uintas, known as Lake Uinta Fossil Butte National Monument in Lincoln County, Wyoming, is in a part of the formation known as Fossil Lake because of its abundance...

2021–2022 United States House of Representatives investigation into the fossil fuels industry was a year-long investigation conducted by the United States...

Riker Hill Fossil Site (also referred to as Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park) is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) paleontological site in Roseland in Essex County, New Jersey...

represents a unique organism Invalid - Genera that do not represent an actual fossil organism, or are taphonomic varieties of others Mark McMenamin described...

"Missing link" is a non-scientific term that typically refers to transitional fossils. It is often used in popular science and in the media for any new transitional...

identification of their fossil remains from geological (or even archeological) contexts. The field also extends to the use of these fossil records for reconstructive...

and walruses. There are 34 recent species of pinnipeds and 102 species of fossil pinnipeds and their stem-relatives (Pinnipedimorpha), collectively referred...

known. The honey badger is native to much of Africa and South Asia, while fossil relatives occurred in those areas and Southern Europe. The genus Mellivora...

mining sectors. As Group Chief Executive Officer and Director of Fossil Contracting and Fossil Mines Pvt Ltd., he has significantly influenced Zimbabwe's infrastructure...

belonging to the family Gryphaeidae. This species have been recorded as fossils from the Miocene to the Quaternary (from 15.97 to 0.012 Ma). Shells of...

ichnogenus of representing trace fossils associated with fish activities. Piscichnus is a large, plug-shaped trace fossil resembling foraging pits created...

archived copy as title (link) "Gibsin Engineer, Ltd : Fossil Power Plant - Project Name : Hsieh-Ho Fossil Power Plant Unit" (PDF). Gibsin.com. Retrieved 2013-10-04...

The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation...

God-Apes and Fossil Men is a book on paleoanthropology in the Indian subcontinent by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy (Ann Arbor, 2000). The book is a detailed study...

equilibria) is a theory that proposes that once a species appears in the fossil record, the population will become stable, showing little evolutionary change...

This paleomammalogy list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2018, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries...

anchoring the colony to the substratum and for brooding embryos. However, fossil bryozoans are only known by the colony structures that the zooids formed...

this article are consensus estimates based on scientific evidence, mainly fossils. In biology, evolution is any change across successive generations in the...

molecular affinities, the constraints of morphology, and the specifics of the fossil record. The first passerines are now thought to have evolved in the Southern...

Fossil fuel regulations are part of the energy policy in the United States and have gained major significance with the nation's strong dependence on fossil...

Iwaki City Coal & Fossil Museum (いわき市石炭・化石館, Iwaki-shi sekitan・kaseki-kan), nicknamed Horuru (ほるる), opened in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1984...

A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between one micrometre and one millimetre in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron...

2000. The data only consider carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture, but not emissions from land use, land-use...

are embedded. It is also used to describe the rock material in which a fossil is embedded. All sediments are at first in an incoherent condition (e.g...

This paleoentomology list records new fossil insect taxa that were described during the year 2021, as well as notes other significant paleoentomology discoveries...

Fossil Coral Reef, also known locally as Bradbury Quarry, is a 100-acre (0.40 km2) abandoned limestone quarry in Le Roy, New York. It contains a well-preserved...

Castle Bank is a fossil deposit in Wales that is 462 million years old and dates from the middle Ordovician period when Mid Wales was covered by an ocean...

Many extinct Picea (spruce tree) species have been identified from fossil evidence of different plant parts, including cones, leaves, pollen, seeds, and...

Late Cretaceous, of which the oldest is possibly Dharragarra. Although fossil evidence suggests the presence of ornithorhynchids in the Cretaceous, phylogenetic...

which are commonly called pigs, hogs, or swine. In addition to numerous fossil species, 18 extant species are currently recognized (or 19 counting domestic...

taxon is represented by (and named for) a 90-metre (295 ft) long series of fossil tracks, or ichnites, found in the spring of 1979 in the Atlas Mountains...

Arriagadoolithus is the oogenus of fossil eggs which includes the eggs of the alvarezsaurid Bonapartenykus. Fossils of the creature were found in Patagonia;...

Mary Dawson and coauthors. They suggested the rat belongs to the ancient fossil family Diatomyidae, which was thought to have been extinct for 11 million...

is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be in the class Asteroidea, excluding...

(Peter Elliott/Dave Brown), who by series 3 they share a flat with. Bob Fossil (Rich Fulcher) is part of the central cast in series 1, becoming a recurring...

Somosaguas fossil site is located in the Community of Madrid, in the Somosaguas campus, within the municipality of Pozuelo de Alarcón (Spain). The fossils found...

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2019 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods...

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2016 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods...

This paleomammology list records new fossil mammal taxa that were described during the year 2022, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries...

Growing up in the Ice Age: Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children is a 2021 book by Paleolithic archaeologist...

large freshwater lakes: Lake Gosiute, Lake Uinta, and Fossil Lake (the last containing Fossil Butte National Monument). It preserves a high diversity...

and 1852 divided the Jurassic into ten stages based on ammonite and other fossil assemblages in England and France, of which seven are still used, but none...

growth. There are over 600 living species. Conifers first appear in the fossil record over 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous. They became dominant...

Ice Age Fossils State Park is a 315-acre state park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, on the northernmost fringe of the metropolitan area. It...

of Lesnes Abbey. Members of the public can dig for fossils in a small area designated as the Fossil Bed with the permission of the Lesnes Abbey ranger...

broader and thinner". In some formations, shark's teeth are a common fossil. These fossils can be analyzed for information on shark evolution and biology;...

genus in the fossil record may have been as early as the Late Oligocene[citation needed], but certainly by the Early Miocene. The fossil ancestry of Carcharodon...

species only identified with fossil material. That identification relies on distinct similarities between the earlier fossil specimens and some proposed...

Jurassic period (latest Oxfordian to latest Tithonian ages). The first fossil remains that could definitively be ascribed to this genus were described...

(~470 million years ago). By the middle of the Devonian (~390 million years ago), fossil evidence has shown that many of the features recognised in land plants today...

Many protists have neither hard parts nor resistant spores, and their fossils are extremely rare or unknown. Examples of such groups include the apicomplexans...

such as Fossil Hill Middle School and Vista Ridge Middle School graduates feed into Fossil Ridge. According to U.S. News & World Report, Fossil Ridge High...

MATSUOKA H. (2000). Fossils of the Kuwajima "Kasekikabe" (Fossil Bluff): a scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage of the...

Clitheroe, England, formed almost exclusively from a diverse fauna of crinoid fossils. The stem of sea lilies is composed of a column of highly porous ossicles...

The Fossil Forest is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset...

maskelli. Fairyflies are well represented in fossil amber inclusions, copal, and compression fossils. Their fossils have been found from the Early Cretaceous...

environment. Some pyritized fossils include Precambrian microfossils, marine arthropods and plants. Permineralized fossils preserve the original cell structure...

which is seen most completely in the upper Eocene and lowermost Oligocene fossil beds of the Faiyum depression southwest of Cairo, gave rise to all living...

exhibition sections: The Shell and Fossil Zone has sea shells and fossils, including the well-known dinosaur egg fossil, which comes from 130,000,000 years...

Spondyliosoma Cantor, 1849 Stenotomus Gill, 1865 Virididentex Poll, 1971 Fossil genera include: †Abromasta Day, 2003 (Early Eocene of Italy) †Burtinia van...

to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is a fossil fuel formed over millions of years from anaerobic decay of organic materials...

The Otjihaenamparero dinosaur tracks are a set of different fossil tracks located at the Otjihaenamparero farmstead, 23 kilometres (14 mi) east of the...

Foot" (Stw 573) is the nickname given to a nearly complete Australopithecus fossil skeleton found in 1994 in the cave system of Sterkfontein, South Africa...

The Namaqua Fossil Forest Marine Protected Area is an offshore conservation region in the territorial waters/exclusive economic zone of South Africa This...

The Fossil Public School, also known as Wheeler County Public School, is a historic Classical Revival style school in Fossil, Oregon, that is listed on...

Orycteropodidae is a family of afrotherian mammals. Although there are many fossil species, the only species surviving today is the aardvark (Orycteropus afer)...

In Australia, fossil fuel divestment is being led by Universities and Local Councils as part of the global fossil fuel divestment campaign launched by...

within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Utah. Utah has a rich fossil record spanning almost all of the geologic column. During the Precambrian...

Limestone Formation in Germany and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. The fossils known of Saurophaganax (both the possible material from New Mexico and...

Although Zodiac was acquired by Fossil Group in 2001, its manufacturing remained in Bienne, Switzerland. Zodiac and Fossil Group are headquartered in Richardson...

has been suggested to have probably lived in herds like living equines. Fossils of Hippidion have been found across South America. Hippidion principale...

according to scientific evidence. Works of paleoart may be representations of fossil remains or imagined depictions of the living creatures and their ecosystems...

The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of...

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Located within the John Day River...

feathers developed as new fossils were discovered throughout the 2000s and the 2010s, and technology enabled scientists to study fossils more closely. Among...

Crash bandicoot is an extinct bandicoot, known from fossils located at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northeast Australia. The primary etymology...

billion in energy-sector subsidies in 2020, and found that around 70% were fossil fuel subsidies. About 20% went to renewable power generation, 6% to biofuels...

The Jiasian Petrified Fossil Museum (traditional Chinese: 甲仙化石館; simplified Chinese: 甲仙化石馆; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiǎxiān Huàshí Guǎn; Tongyong Pinyin: Jiǎsian...

The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival is an annual festival held at Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast of East Devon and Dorset. It exists to celebrate the unique...

which contributes to climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas) is the main cause of climate...

described in 2019, but it was subsequently shown to be a forgery based on a fossil crayfish. Jorg Wunderlich placed Longissipalpus and Pedipalparaneus from...

Nesolagus sinensis is a fossil species of striped rabbit (genus Nesolagus) from the early Middle Pleistocene "Gigantopithecus fauna" of Guangxi Zhuang...

some fossil gastroliths are rounded and polished, many stones in living birds are not polished at all. Gastroliths associated with dinosaur fossils can...

This paleoentomology list records new fossil insect taxa that were described during the year 2014, as well as notes other significant paleoentomology discoveries...

The Paradise Combined Cycle Plant (formerly known as Paradise Fossil Plant) is a natural gas power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)...

(pétra) 'rock, stone') is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the...

is surrounded by karri and marri forest. There have been extinct animal fossils found in Mammoth Cave. The cave is 500 m (1,600 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft)...

over 10,000 species having been described. Ammonoids are excellent index fossils, and they have been frequently used to link rock layers in which a particular...

sapiens. Despite extensive research, no direct fossil evidence of the CHLCA has been discovered. Fossil candidates like Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin...

20th-century power plants, a dam, and related infrastructure along or near Fossil Creek in the U.S. state of Arizona. The complex was named an Historic Mechanical...

from the middle Cambrian (late Wuliuan or base Drumian) Burgess Shale fossil Lagerstätte. The species occurs with Ptychagnostus praecurrens and derives...

trace fossil consisting of a vertically spiraling burrow, known from Cambrian strata onward. Jensen, Sören; Mens, Kaisa (2001). "Trace fossils Didymaulichnus...

Various fossil primates have been found in South America and adjacent regions such as Panama and the Caribbean. Presently, 78 species of New World monkeys...

Treptoceras is a fossil cephalopod genus included in the orthocerid family Proteoceratidae. It has been found in Ordovician rocks dated from about 460...

(Olenekian). It is one of the earliest saurichthyid genera known from the fossil record. If E. madagascariensis is a member of this genus, then it appears...

ground sloth native to South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Its fossil remains have primarily been found in the Pampas and adjacent regions. The...

genus Mesodon. Otherwise, no articulated or complete specimen is known: all fossil specimens are bone fragments and disarticulated teeth. This genus is thought...

animals, although the evidence for this relationship remains inconclusive. Fossil evidence of primitive sponges such as Otavia dates to as early as the Tonian...

Formation consists of five beds. Every bed within the formation contains fossil material. The beds are as follows, in ascending stratigraphic order (lowest...

genus of adapiform primate that lived in Europe during the early Eocene. Fossils have been found in the Grès d'Assignan, Lignites de Soissonais, and Calcare...

has fossilized intestinal casts. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived...

End Fossil Occupy Uganda is a Ugandan youth climate organisation founded in 2023 and affiliated with the international End Fossil: Occupy! student climate...

valuation of companies dependent on fossil-fuel-based energy production, resulting from future decreases in value of fossil fuel reserves as they become unusable...

Shaanxi, central Jiangxi, and other localities in China. It is known for the fossil Lagerstätten in Zigui in Hubei, Xiuning in Anhui, and Weng'an in Guizhou...

nearly 15,000 extant species in around 2,700 genera, with around 3,300 fossil species. Nearly half of these species are crabs, with the shrimp (about...

science portal Dinosaurs portal This list of fossil reptiles described in 2019 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year...

Australia. In addition to the living species, bubalinans have an extensive fossil record where remains have been found in much of Afro-Eurasia. American bison...

Latanites is an extinct genus of plants belonging to the family Arecaceae. Fossil palms of this genus are dating back to the Middle Eocene and to the Early-Middle...

paleontology. Lacovara is founder and executive director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University and the author of the general-audience book, Why...

Dinosaur Ridge is a segment of the Dakota Hogback in the Morrison Fossil Area National Natural Landmark located in Jefferson County, Colorado, near the...

is also a monotypic genus, containing only Nilpenia rossi. The holotype fossil of Nilpenia was found from the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite...

the fossil record from the Jurassic (Bajocian age) to Cretaceous Santonian age) (age range: from about 164.7 to 94.3 million years ago). Fossils of species...

to the fossil content. Fossils found there include ammonites, cnidarians and the ichthyosaur Gengasaurus, discovered in 1976. Many of the fossils found...

described from a single fossil that was recovered in 1999 from Morocco by an Italian team searching for fossil invertebrates. The fossil of Kemkemia dates from...

the southern part of Pangaea) during the Permian Period. Glossopteris fossils were critical in recognizing former connections between the various fragments...

Uruguay is a trace fossil which was described in 1939 by Francisco Lucas Roselli. Consisting of bee cells, can be found in the Asencio Formation of Uruguay...

Americas, Hawaii and tropical Asia. Cecilioides sommeri is the family's oldest fossil record, dating from the Middle Paleocene of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin). In...

This list of fossil fish research presented in 2021 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes...

fed on juvenile dinosaurs. Most of the evidence consists of fossils. For many years, fossils of Mesozoic mammals and their immediate ancestors were scarce...

supplies fresh water obtained from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System, a fossil aquifer, across Libya. It is the world's largest irrigation project. The...

members of the subclass Nautiloidea, and are often considered "living fossils". The arm crown of modern nautilids (genera Nautilus and Allonautilus)...

preserving an abundance of fossil freshwater/low salinity ostracods. Gastropods, bivalves, trace fossil burrows, and vertebrate fossil remains have also been...

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skull" or "Broken Hill skull", also "Rhodesian Man"), a Middle Stone Age fossil recovered from Broken Hill mine in Kabwe, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)...

Anthropopithecus erectus or Pithecanthropus erectus) is an early human fossil discovered in 1891 and 1892 on the island of Java (Indonesia). Estimated...

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earliest fossils representative of Multicrustacea are from the Cambrian. However, the more specific timeline is uncertain. Some Cambrian fossils of uncertain...

(Albian) fossil forest is exposed on a single bedding plane within the Triton Point Formation of the Fossil Bluff Group. The floor of this fossil forest...

within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Iowa. The paleozoic fossil record of Iowa spans from the Cambrian to Mississippian. During the early...

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect...

recognizable fossil evidence of life becomes common. The Ediacaran Period is named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, where trace fossils of a diverse...

heteromorpha from the earliest Permian period in France is one of the earliest fossils ascribed to the Ginkgophyta. It had multiple-forked non-laminar leaves...

faunal stage which lasted from approximately 466 to 461 million years ago. Fossils of Hoekaspis have been found in France, Morocco, Bolivia and Argentina...

subfamilies, with about 58 genera and some 285 species. The oldest squirrel fossil, Hesperopetes, dates back to the Chadronian (late Eocene, about 40–35 million...

Trapalcotherium is a fossil mammal from the Cretaceous of Argentina in the family Ferugliotheriidae. The single species, T. matuastensis, is known from...

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domesticated forms) when a population migrated southward towards South America. Fossils of Hemiauchenia in South America are restricted to the Pleistocene and...

Statherian beds in India, may be the oldest known confirmably eukaryotic fossil organism. By the beginning of the Statherian, the supercontinent Columbia...

This list of pathological dinosaur specimens enumerates those fossil dinosaur specimens that preserve evidence of injury, disease, deformity or parasitic...

holotype specimen for Homo ergaster. List of fossil sites (with link directory) List of hominina (hominin) fossils (with images) Groves, C. P.; Mazak, V. (1975)...

Untermaßfeld fossil site is a palaeontological site in Untermaßfeld, Germany. Excavated continuously since its discovery in 1978, it has produced many fossils dating...

Ann Mantell (née Woodhouse; 9 April 1795 – 20 October 1869) was a British fossil collector and the wife of the British paleontologist Gideon Mantell. She...

ethical investment and specifically fossil-fuel divestment through participation in the Quakers and the UK Fossil Free campaign. She participated in bringing...

farmer accidentally found bones that were later identified as mammalian fossils. Excavations started in 2006 by paleontologists from the Chinese Academy...

Similifaveoloolithus is an oogenus of fossil dinosaur egg from the Tiantai basin in Zhejiang Province, China. It is the sole known oospecies of the oofamily...

northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly during...

Holocentrinae. It was originally erroneously named by Volta (1796) as a fossil specimen of "Holocentrus sogo" (a synonym for Holocentrus adscensionis)...

(the extinction rate, μ). Diversification rates can be estimated from fossils, data on the species diversity of clades and their ages, or phylogenetic...

Atreipus is an ichnogenus or trace fossil attributed to early Ornithischian dinosaurs. Its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy has earned it some...

Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum along with a large portion of Ameghino's fossil collections. In his paper, Ameghino erected the family Cruschedulidae, however...

Cambrian fossil locations worldwide, exhibiting exquisite preservation of rarely preserved, non-mineralized soft tissue, comparable to the fossils of the...

substantial magnification for evaluation by fossil-hunters or professional paleontologists. As a result, most fossils observed in the field and most specimens...

help the species recover. The species' fossil record reveals it had at one point a greater range, with fossil remains being found in the Bahamas, Hispaniola...

Stephanodus is a form genus of extinct fossil ray-finned fish, referring to the hook-shaped pharyngeal teeth present on the branchial arch of pycnodonts...

DNA analysis. Metasequoia redwood fossils are known from many areas in the Northern Hemisphere; more than 20 fossil species have been named (some were...

North America. Both living species are thought to have derived from the fossil genus Archaeodesmana. Genus Desmana Russian desman (D. moschata) †Desmana...

being the location where the significant trace fossils of the Ediacaran biota were discovered. These fossil beds contain some of the oldest known multicellular...

reducing the risk of mercury poisoning when consumed. The earliest known fossil members of this group are the stem-clupeids Italoclupea and Lecceclupea...

known only from fossils. They are commonly known as inocelliid snakeflies. The largest known species is Fibla carpenteri known from fossils found in baltic...

The Barbados rail is a fossil rail species endemic to Barbados with an undetermined taxonomic status. It was formerly described by Pierce Brodkorb in 1965...

corals lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian (from 449.5 to 412.3 Ma). Fossils of Halysites species have been found in the sediments of North America...

and Meischucum, China. because of its accessibility and abundance of fossils. Fortune Head was established as a provisional reserve in 1990, and then...

The fossil record of gastropods extends back to the Late Cambrian. As of 2017[update], 721 families are recognized—476 extant (some with fossil representatives)...

best-preserved Allosaurus fossil known to date. First described as Allosaurus fragilis, newer studies showed that the fossil belongs to Allosaurus jimmadseni...

Monte Bolca site of Italy. Heteronectes is reported to be a transitional fossil. In a typical modern flatfish, the head is asymmetric with both eyes on...

defined ridgeline and contains isolated peaks, maze-like canyons, walls of fossil bearing rocks, natural arches, and volcanic hoodoos. The Wilderness also...

The genus contains one species known as S. parvus, the type fossil (which is only fossil known) is from fluvial deposits located in the Dinosaur Quarry...

known in the fossil record from the Silurian period to the Carboniferous period (age range: from 428.2 to 326.4 million years ago). These fossils have been...

species Dakosaurus maximus, meaning "greatest biter lizard", is known from fossil discoveries in Western Europe (England, France, Switzerland and Germany)...

be a living fossil, the chambered nautilus is now considered taxonomically very different from ancient ammonites, and the recent fossil record surrounding...

designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti (a now extinct...

recognizable in the fossil record. As of 2021, the oldest falconid fossil is estimated to be 55 million years old. Given the distribution of fossil and living...

and several other groups. The fossil record of mollusks is relatively complete, and they are well represented in most fossil-bearing marine strata. Very...

paleoecology uses data from fossils and subfossils to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. It involves the study of fossil organisms and their associated...

Other fossil primates, including Microchoeridae, Carpolestidae, and Eosimiidae, have been included in this classification, although the fossil evidence...

museum's website: "the museum's Fossil Overlook is a new prehistoric life exhibit that includes a variety of fossils, detailed models, casts, and interactive...

A fossil wood with features similar to those of the Oligocene Hovenia palaeodulcis from Japan is described from the late Eocene Florissant Fossil Beds...

composition, bedding orientation, mineralogy, history, and strength. In fossil and mineral collecting, geologist's hammers are used to break rocks in order...