Mineralized skeletons first appear in the fossil record shortly before the base of the Cambrian period,.

Mineralized exoskeletons first appeared in the fossil record about, and their evolution is considered by some to have played a role in the subsequent Cambrian explosion of animals.

Image: Stalactite-drop. jpg | Mineralized water drop forming at bottom of stalactites.

Mineralized virus particles have been shown to withstand various pH values by mineralizing the viruses with different materials such silicon, PbS, and CdS and could therefore serve as a useful carriers of material.

Mineralized exoskeletons can be preserved " as is ", as shell fragments, for example.

Mineralized calcium secretions, commonly used for diagnostic research in cacti remains, are composed of calcium oxalates.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.

Lawson discovered a second site of the same age, about forty kilometers from the first, where between 1972 and 1974 he and Professor Wann Langston Jr. of the Texas Memorial Museum unearthed three fragmentary skeletons of much smaller individuals.

* March – French geologist Louis Lartet discovers the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon, the first early modern humans ( early Homo sapiens sapiens ), at Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.

Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified, which she and her brother Joseph found when she was just twelve years old ; the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found ; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany ; and some important fish fossils.

They are among the earliest and most abundant of the small shelly fossils with mineralized skeletons, and therefore feature in the debate about why such skeletons first appeared in the Late Ediacaran.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July 2005 that recent research by the Fiji Museum and the University of the South Pacific ( USP ) has found that skeletons excavated at Bourewa, near Natadola in Sigatoka, at least 3000 years old, belonged to the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South China or Taiwan.

In 2003, the tomb of either King Narmer or King Hor-Aha ( two of the first Egyptian pharaohs ) was excavated and the skeletons of ten donkeys were found buried in a manner usually used with high ranking humans.

Before 1780, Grigsby ’ s Bluff, explicitly that part of Port Neches immediately east of Port Neches Park, had been an Indian town for at least 1, 500 years, at first of the Karankawa tribe, whose 7-foot skeletons were often found in the burial mounds there ; and after 1650 of the Nacazils, a sub-tribe of the Attakapas, who were a short and stocky people before their extinction about 1780.

Cave bear skeletons were first described in 1774 by Johann Friederich Esper in his book Newly Discovered Zoolites of Unknown Four Footed Animals.

* Stegosaurus armatus, meaning " armored roof lizard ", was the first species to be found and is known from two partial skeletons, two partial skulls and at least thirty fragmentary individuals.

In this geologically brief period all the major animal phyla appeared and these included the first creatures with mineralized skeletons.

During the first formal scientific excavation in 1967, several skeletons, together with bronze grave gifts, were unearthed.

The French geologist Louis Lartet discovered the first five skeletons of this type in March 1868 in a rock shelter named Abri de Crô-Magnon.

At work, Pel finds that taking on TSR's job involves more than it seemed at first ; he has to pay off student recruiters from the Pacific Ring, who happen to be members of The Triads ; he has to take care of the details of the building of a new Learning Centre building, which involves hiding the fact that skeletons from an ancient burial ground have been illegally dumped from the site, and a dangerous neurotoxin to be buried under it.

By comparing skeletons of apes to man T. H. Huxley ( 1825 – 1895 ) backed up Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, first expressed in On the Origin of Species ( 1859 ), and developed the " Pithecometra principle " which stated that man and ape were descended from a common ancestor.

It was excavated from 1957 – 1961 by Ralph Solecki and his team from Columbia University and yielded the first adult Neanderthal skeletons in Iraq, dating between 60 – 80, 000 years BP.

Late in 1943, the first few living skeletons arrived in Alor Setar.

The first chamber contains the skeletons of the workers.

* March-French geologist Louis Lartet discovers the first identified skeletons of Cro-Magnon, the first anatomically modern humans ( early Homo sapiens sapiens ), at Abri de Crô-Magnon, a rock shelter at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.

It is speculated that the remains are of two young lovers because the two skeletons appear to be embracing.

In the newer version, undead skeletons appear inside instead.

Other villains present in the game include: " Nasty Trees " which become more ornery as levels progress, a ghost that will usually appear in the Hidden Spiral levels, dancing skeletons, " Gem Eaters " who Bentley Bear can defeat if he catches them while eating a gem, and also the devilish " Crystal Balls " creatures that in later levels tend to follow Bentley Bear persistently as he collects gems.

Marks on some bones show cut-marks of a nature indicative of defleshing, but most appear to suggest disarticulation of adult skeletons.

The Cladh Hallan skeletons differ from most bog bodies in two respects: unlike most bog bodies, they appear to have been put in the bog for the express purpose of preservation ( whereas most bog bodies were simply interred in the bog ), and unlike most bog bodies, their soft tissue was no longer preserved at the time of discovery.

Currently, most works on chronology of rulers and high state officials require extensive improvement as they appear as skeletons of names and dates, to which no flesh of facts is attached.

* Fire King Skeleton and Ice King Skeleton-Fought in " Fire and Ice Frenzy ," these two big skeletons appear to fight Jack after he replaced the Oogie-Doors with the real Holiday Doors.

To make matters worse, the human skeletons that have been resurrected through experimentation in the previous episode now appear frequently, and have the dangerous ability to channel electricity.

The party place was adorned with torches, rocks, skeletons and vines, doors were surrounded with totem pole-like ornaments, speaker stands and other accessories were wrapped in an Inca-esque setting.

Fernbank contains many materials for instruction, including dinosaur skeletons, rocks and minerals, a collection of tektites, an Aeronautics Education Laboratory and an electron microscope lab.

Skeleton Lake is so named because when surveyors were working on the north shore, they came upon two skeletons resting on the rocks.

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

Chondrichthyes (; from Greek χονδρ-chondr-' cartilage ', ἰχθύς ichthys ' fish ') or cartilaginous fishes are jawed fish with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a two-chambered heart, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.

The Calcium carbonate, from which coral skeletons are made is just over 60 % Carbon dioxide.

While thousands of isolated bones have been collected from 19th century Funk Island to Neolithic middens, only a small number of complete skeletons exist.

Libralces gallicus came from the warm savannahs of Pliocene Europe, with the best preserved skeletons being found in southern France.

Pterodactylus is known from over 27 fossil specimens, and though most of those are juveniles, many preserve complete skeletons.

However, aside from the differences between males and females described above, the post-cranial skeletons of Pteranodon show little to no variation between species or specimens, and the bodies and wings of all pteranodonts were essentially identical.

* are animated skeletons mostly from the remains of dead warriors who still have a strong will to fight, and serve evil powers such as Ganon or Vaati.

Shark skeletons are very different from those of bony fish and terrestrial vertebrates.

* Most types of limestone are formed from the calcareous skeletons of organisms such as corals, mollusks, and foraminifera.

* Deposits of chert formed from the accumulation of siliceous skeletons from microscopic organisms such as radiolaria and diatoms.

They are more-or-less cup-shaped animals, ranging from in height, with sturdy lattice-like internal skeletons made up of fused spicules of silica.

Reefs are built up from coral skeletons, and are held together by layers of calcium carbonate produced by coralline algae.

However, ichnological evidence in the form of trackways from horned dinosaurs, and recent reconstructions of skeletons ( both physical and digital ) seem to show that Triceratops and other ceratopsids maintained an upright stance during normal locomotion, with the elbows flexed and slightly bowed out, in an intermediate state between fully upright and fully sprawling ( as in the modern rhinoceros ).

The skeletons were found in a layer of undisturbed soil containing pottery from around 550 BC.

Mitochondrial DNA has been extracted from two Scytho-Siberian skeletons found in the Altai Republic ( Russia ).

Knowledge of the Denisovan humans derives primarily from DNA evidence and artifacts, as no complete skeletons have yet been recovered.

museum displays hundreds of skulls and skeletons from all corners of the world.

Thus far, nine skeletons of Homo floresiensis dating from approximately 38, 000 to 13, 000 years ago have been excavated, suggesting that these " hobbits " would have shared the island with dwarf elephants, giant rats, and Komodo dragons.