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A fossilized Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilized Megalosaurus, for example, because neanderthals and megalosauruses lived during different geological periods, separated by many millions of years.
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Saddles are typically made of plastic or bone for acoustic guitars, though synthetics and some exotic animal tooth variations ( e. g. fossilized tooth, ivory, etc.
The objects found in a cave near Xarrë include flint and jasper objects and fossilized animal bones, while those found at Mount Dajt comprise bone and stone tools similar to those of the Aurignacian culture.
The fossil is unique in that soft tissue, skin, and muscle were fossilized as well as bone.
Lucy was discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia on November 24, 1974, when Johanson, coaxed away from his paperwork by graduate student Tom Gray for a spur-of-the-moment survey, caught the glint of a white fossilized bone out of the corner of his eye, and recognized it as hominid.
Many paleontologists have proposed that the dire wolf may have used its relatively large teeth to crush bone, an idea that is supported by the frequency of large amounts of wear on the crowns of their fossilized teeth.
Historical examples also include bone, steel, porcupine quill, celluloid, agate, ivory, and fossilized mammoth ivory.
In 2007 a long fossilized penis bone from an extinct species of walrus, believed by the seller to be the largest in existence, was sold for $ 8, 000.
Sauroposeidon (; meaning " earthquake god lizard ", after the Greek god Poseidon ) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the US states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.
The fossilized remains include hip bones ( the ilium and ischium ), part of a leg bone ( femur ), a shin bone ( tibia ), a forearm ( radius ) and a tail bone ( part of a vertebra, specifically a platycoelous caudal centrum ).
In 1991, during a field trip, Dr. Joe Zanbilowicz discovered a fossilized bone along the Puntledge River and a few more vertebrae were excavated that day.
Stone, fossilized materials, wood, bone, horn, amber, bamboo, silicone, and glass are not uncommon in stretched piercings.
The first fossilized specimen of the species, though not recognized as such at the time, was a single fragment of humerus ( arm bone ) found in Pliocene strata in the Kanapoi region of East Lake Turkana by a Harvard University research team in 1965.
For DNA to escape total degradation, it must be preserved in fossilized bone.
The preservation of DNA in fossilized bone is rather a " lucky accident ".
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These buried upright trees demonstrate that conventional geologic processes are capable of burying and preserving trees in an upright position such that in time, they will become fossilized.
Researchers hope the technology will help them learn more about the fossilized insides of the creature.
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The most significant limitation is that, although there are 30-plus phyla of living animals, two-thirds of these phyla have never been found as fossils, because most animal species are soft-bodied and decay before they can become fossilized.
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Microfossil is a descriptive term applied to fossilized plants and animals whose size is just at or below the level at which the fossil can be analyzed by the naked eye.
* 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the " Piltdown Man " skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
* In the 2009 video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the Tree of Life grows within the city of Shambala, and the sap or fossilized resin from the tree is seen to be consumed by the inhabitants of the city.
* December 18 – Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London.
* Phrases connected by no ( の ) are permitted, but only in those cases where the phrase is sufficiently fossilized to be considered a " word ".
This meteorite received much attention after an electron microscope revealed structures that were considered to be the fossilized remains of bacteria-like lifeforms.
Dinosaur claws, bird tracks and fossilized snakes can be seen in the petrified wood.
Exoskeletons, as hard parts of organisms, are greatly useful in assisting preservation of organisms, whose soft parts usually rot before they can be fossilized.
If the structures are in fact fossilized lifeforms, as proposed by the so-called biogenic hypothesis of their formation, they would be the first solid evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life, aside from the chance of their origin being terrestrial contamination.
Dunlop & Horrocks ( 1996 ) suggested that the hypoctonids may be the sister-group to the Schizomida and Proschizomus Dunlop & Horrocks 1996, but the character polarities they utilized were regarded as uncertain and many features of Proschizomus were not observable in the fossilized material.
His reasoning for these plates to be covered in horn is that the surface fossilized plates have a resemblance to the bony cores of horns in other animals known or thought to bear horns, and his reasoning for the plates to be defensive in nature is that the plates had insufficient width for them to stand erect easily in such a manner as to be useful in display without continuous muscular effort.
Many of these fossilized logs can still be found today at the base of the Wilson Cliffs.
Most paleontologists hold fossilized jaw remains to be the distinguishing feature used to classify synapsids and reptiles.
The resultant hardened structure can be compared to concrete ; with the fossilized bacteria playing the role of aggregate, and the smaller calcium phosphate salts being the cement.
( Forty years later, the Hercules emulator can be used to run " fossilized " versions of these systems, based on source code that is now treated as part of the public domain.
Although the skeletons of dinosaurs can be reconstructed, only their fossilized footprints can determine exactly how they stood and walked.
In some areas of Michigan, complete fossilized coral colony heads can be found.
This mask turns out to be a fossilized demon skull, which shows whomever wore it what the world was like when demons ruled over it.
Glen Rose, Texas is also been noted for Dinosaur Valley State Park and the Glen Rose Formation, where fossilized dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period, dating back about 110 million years, can be viewed.
Areas of Oakland also contain many areas where fossilized crustaceans can be found along the banks of the river.
It is also difficult to determine exact age of fossilized matter within a year or a decade, so a biomass might be grossly exaggerated or under exaggerated if the estimated time frame in which the fossils were alive is incorrect.
After the discovery of the Peking Man, fossilized bones and information about where they might be found becomes extremely valuable.
Mary Leakey ( 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996 ) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.
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The fossilized remains of many of these trees are found embedded in the clay.
In the late 19th century, Hjalmar Stolpe, an entomologist by education, arrived on Björkö to study fossilized insects found in amber on the island.
A derived, reworked or remanié fossil is a fossil found in rock made significantly later than when the fossilized animal or plant died: it happens when a hard fossil is freed from a soft rock formation by erosion and redeposited in a currently forming sedimentary deposit.
The diet of Pteranodon is known to have included fish ; fossilized fish bones have been found in the stomach area of one Pteranodon, and a fossilized fish bolus has been found between the jaws of another Pteranodon, specimen AMNH 5098.
These cliffs, generally known as Calvert Cliffs, are famous for their fossils, especially fossilized shark teeth which are commonly found washed up on the beaches next to the cliffs.
Several Martian meteorites have been found to contain what some think is evidence for fossilized Martian life forms.
Mylodon has been traditionally considered a grazer in open areas, which is theorized based on its paleoenvironment as well as from the vegetation found in fossilized dung.
In 1870, workers blasting a site for a stone quarry found fossilized remains of tree stumps.
The fossilized Anzia is found in pieces of amber in northern Europe and dates back approximately 40 million years.
They became widespread toward the end of the Cretaceous period, and fossilized dinosaur dung ( coprolites ) have been found containing phytoliths of a variety of grasses that include grasses that are related to modern rice and bamboo.
Among the pelycosaurs, only two species of small varanopids have been found to possess scutes ; fossilized rows of osteoderms indicate horny armour on the neck and back, and skin impressions indicate some retained rectangular scutes on their undersides and tails.
It was claimed by Egyptian scientists to have the possible age of 2-3 million years old, which would make it the oldest fossilized hominid footprint ever found.
The La Brea Tar Pits Museum is built around the tar pit around the house fossilized remains of mammals and birds found within.
Known as the Lewis Overthrust, these sedimentary rocks are considered to have some of the finest fossilized examples of extremely early life found anywhere on Earth.
These shells are sometimes found in fossil plates along with Turritella, clams, and sometimes sharks ' teeth and fossilized fish scales.
* 1829 — Buckland publishes paper on work he and Mary Anning had done identifying and analyzing fossilized feces found at Lyme Regis and elsewhere.
Although they are found only in marine deposits, their oxygen isotope values indicate that they consumed water with a range of degrees of salinity, some specimens showing no evidence of sea water consumption and others none of fresh water consumption at the time when their teeth were fossilized.
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