We found 36 examples of how to use fossils in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 36.
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| 1. | Body fossils are the physical remains of an actual organism (shells, bones, teeth, plant leaves, etc.), while trace fossils (burrows, coprolites, footprints, trackways, etc.) preserve evidence of an organism’s activity or behavior. | |
| 2. | Trace fossils represent the presence or behavior of ancient life, without body parts being present. Footprints, worm burrows, and insect nests are examples of trace fossils. | |
| 3. | In many ways, these fossils are the 'smoking gun' just before the emergence of our own genus. | |
| 4. | The city is famous for the fossils in its museums. | |
| 5. | As a child, Van Horne collected fossils. | |
| 6. | Tom is interested in fossils. | |
| 7. | Scientific collections are assemblies of physical objects that are valuable for research and education — including drilling cores from the ocean floor and glaciers, seeds, space rocks, cells, mineral samples, fossils, and more. | |
| 8. | Scuba divers have found many interesting things under water including gold coins, ancient ruins, and fossils of extinct animals. | |
| 9. | The paleontologists are looking for fossils. | |
| 10. | The Oort Cloud is so far away from the Sun that its icy objects are not warmed much by the Sun's heat. The objects are frozen fossils from the early solar system. | |
| 11. | We estimate that there are several fossils in these giant rocks. | |
| 12. | What's the point, after all, of leaving traces? Are the dinosaurs happier because we find their fossils? | |
| 13. | Fossil of plants, invertebrates, vertebrates, and trace fossils have been identified in Yellowstone National Park from more than 40 stratigraphic units spanning more than 540 million years from the Cambrian to the Cenozoic eras. | |
| 14. | Fossils are a non-renewable resource. | |
| 15. | Due to the fragility of most fossils, it is necessary to inventory and document fossil localities to evaluate existing fossil material and obtain baseline information so that appropriate management decisions can be made about these areas. | |
| 16. | The fossils of Yellowstone have long been studied and have already contributed to important scientific findings. | |
| 17. | Sediment cores from the bottom of Yellowstone’s lakes contain fossils of pollen deposited during the Late Pleistocene. These pollen records show which plants were present at that time and allow researchers to infer climate conditions. | |
| 18. | It is illegal to dig up, relocate, and/or remove fossils from Grand Canyon National Park. If you find a fossil, please leave it for others to discover and scientists to study. | |
| 19. | Body fossils are the preserved remains of ancient life, such as bones, teeth, wood, and shells. | |
| 20. | Sedimentary rock contains fossils because it was built up layer upon layer, often trapping and preserving animals, plants, footprints, and more within the layers of sediment. | |
| 21. | If all the conditions are right, fossils are formed as the layers of sediment turn into rock. | |
| 22. | The oldest fossils at Grand Canyon are 1,200 million to 740 million years old. | |
| 23. | Trilobites fossils are arthropods, or joint-footed animals, with a segmented body of hinged plates and shields. They could curl up into a ball for protection, sometimes fossilizing as a "rolled" trilobite. | |
| 24. | Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind. | |
| 25. | Fossils are fun. |