Fossil

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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