The first fossil find was dated to 4. 4 million years ago on the basis of its stratigraphic position between two volcanic strata: the basal Gaala Tuff Complex ( GATC ) and the Daam Aatu Basaltic Tuff ( DABT ).

This fossil was originally described as a species of Australopithecus, but White and his colleagues later published a note in the same journal renaming the fossil under a new genus, Ardipithecus.

The sense was extended to fossil resin circa 1400, and this became the main sense, as the use of ambergris waned.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

The turnover in this group is clearly marked at the species level .< ref > Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a sharp increase in extinctions than by a decrease in speciation .< ref > The K – T boundary record of dinoflagellates is not as well-understood, mainly because only microbial cysts provide a fossil record, and not all dinoflagellate species have cyst-forming stages, thereby likely causing diversity to be underestimated.

While his assertion was not initially well-received, later intensive field studies of fossil beds lent weight to his claim.

The 2003 discovery of the fossil remains of Homo floresiensis was cited by paleontologist Henry Gee, editor of the journal Nature as possible evidence that humanoid cryptids like the Orang Pendek and yeti were " founded on grains of truth ".

If a 2, 000 ( lb / ac )/ year sequestration rate was achieved on all of cropland in the United States, nearly 1. 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide would be sequestered per year, mitigating close to one quarter of the country's total fossil fuel emissions.

Comorian waters are the habitat of the coelacanth, a rare fish with limblike fins and a cartilaginous skeleton, the fossil remains of which date as far back as 400 million years and which was once thought to have become extinct about 70 million years ago.

* Chimera ( paleontology ), a fossil which was reconstructed with parts from different animals

It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin.

Sources of electricity in the U. S. in 2009 Fossil fuel power plant | fossil fuel generation ( mainly coal ) was the largest source.

The majority of fossil fuel usage for the generation of electricity was coal and gas.

A major problem at that time was the lack of fossil intermediaries.

The driving force in the east African researches was the Leakey family, with Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey, and later their son Richard and daughter in-law Meave being among the most successful fossil hunters and palaeoanthropologists.

In the 1980s Ethiopia emerged as the new hot spot of palaeoanthropology as " Lucy ", the most complete fossil member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was found by Don Johanson in Hadar in the desertic Middle Awash region of northern Ethiopia.

In 1994 Meave Leakey discovered Australopithecus anamensis, but the find was overshadowed by the news of Tim White's discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus, which pushed back the fossil record to.

The fossil evidence was insufficient for Richard Leakey to resolve this debate.

In 2010, Saadanius was described as a close relative of the last common ancestor of the crown catarrhines, and tentatively dated to 29 – 28 million years ago, helping to fill an 11-million-year gap in the fossil record.

* In February 2006 a fossil, the Gawis cranium, was found which might possibly be a species intermediate between H. erectus and H. sapiens or one of many evolutionary dead ends.

A Homo fossil was found near some Oldowan tools, and its age was noted at 2. 3 million years old, suggesting that maybe the Homo species did indeed create and use these tools.

A fossil normally preserves only a portion of the deceased organism, usually that portion that was partially mineralized during life, such as the bones and teeth of vertebrates, or the chitinous or calcareous exoskeletons of invertebrates.

Daubenton published many articles in the memoirs of the Parisian Académie Royale des Sciences, presenting his research on animals, the comparative anatomy of extant and fossil animals, vegetable physiology, mineralogy, agriculture, and the merino sheep that he successfully introduced into France.

The term taphonomy ( from the Greek taphos-τάφος meaning burial, and nomos-νόμος meaning law ) was introduced to paleontology in 1940 by Russian scientist Ivan Efremov to describe the study of the transition of remains, parts, or products of organisms, from the biosphere, to the lithosphere, i. e. the creation of fossil assemblages.

In particular, he conducted detailed anatomical studies of the cranium of Eusthenopteron foordi using a serial-section technique introduced by William Johnson Sollas and applied to fossil fishes by Erik Stensiö.

Nearly 7, 000 species and subspecies names have been introduced for both fossil and recent Pectinidae.

Fossil cards were first introduced in the Fossil expansion on October 8, 1999, though only Mysterious Fossil was introduced then and would be the only Fossil card until 2003, when it was joined by Root Fossil, Dome Fossil and armored fossil.

While travelling in Switzerland with Lord Cole ( later to be 3rd earl of Enniskillen ) they were introduced to Prof. L Agassiz at Neufchâtel, and determined to make a special study of fossil fish.

Since electric motors consume 60 % of all electricity generated, advanced energy efficient electric motor ( and electric generator ) technology that are cost effective to encourage their application, such as the brushless wound-rotor doubly fed electric machine and energy saving module, can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide ( CO < sub > 2 </ sub >) and sulfur dioxide ( SO < sub > 2 </ sub >) that would otherwise be introduced to the atmosphere, if electricity is generated using fossil fuels.

During the conference where Bambiraptor was first introduced, the dinosaur reconstruction specialist Brian Cooley portrayed Bambiraptor as having feathers, despite the fact that no feathers were found with the fossil itself.

The CCS Interactive consists of a model of a fossil fuel burning power station with CO < sub > 2 </ sub > being introduced into the system using a gas cylinder.

A born teacher, he introduced Edwin's son Ray to the delights of fossil collecting.

The relative scarcity of fossil evidence prevents precise dating, but the most recent molecular study, based on multilocus sequence typing, suggest a Late Carboniferous – Early Permian origin of extant amphibians.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

Skeptics claim that many of the allegedly hominin-like features seen in the Ardipithecus material are found elsewhere among living and fossil primates, and that claims about its hominin status and locomotor habits are not adequately supported by the available evidence.

Traditionally, the extinct family Viverravidae ( viverravids ) had been thought to be the earliest carnivorans, with fossil records first appearing in the Paleocene of North America about 60 mya, but recently described evidence from cranial morphology now places them outside the order Carnivora.

There are substantial fossil records of jawed fishes across the K – T boundary, which provides good evidence of extinction patterns of these classes of marine vertebrates.

There is evidence of a mass kill of bony fishes at a fossil site immediately above the K – T boundary layer on Seymour Island near Antarctica, apparently precipitated by the K – Pg extinction event.

No known family of terrestrial squamates became extinct at the boundary, and fossil evidence indicates they did not suffer any significant decline in numbers.

There is little fossil evidence for the divergence of the gorilla, chimpanzee and hominin lineages.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

There is very little fossil evidence for the split of the hominin lineage from the lineages of gorillas and chimpanzees.

The fossil record ( especially the sister species Pinguinus alfrednewtoni ) and molecular evidence show that the three genera, while closely related, diverged soon after their common ancestor, a bird probably similar to a stout Xantus's Murrelet, had spread to the coasts of the Atlantic.

These specimens are the earliest known relatives of modern salamanders, and together with the numerous other basal groups of salamanders found in the Asian fossil record, they form a concrete base of evidence for the fact that “ the early diversification of salamanders was well underway ” in Asia during the Jurassic period.

Although learning about the construction of ancient eyes through fossil evidence is problematic due to the soft tissues leaving no imprint or remains, genetic and comparative anatomical evidence has increasingly supported the idea of a common ancestry for all eyes.

DNA evidence shows the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, and clouded leopard share a common ancestor, and that this group is between six and ten million years old ; the fossil record points to the emergence of Panthera just two to 3. 8 million years ago.

However, recent fossil evidence from Queensland suggests that the Komodo dragon evolved in Australia before spreading to Indonesia.

They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time.

However, the fossil record retains evidence of many of these older species.

Current fossil and DNA evidence shows that all existing species can trace a continual ancestry back to the first primitive life forms.

According to fossil evidence, the primitive ancestors of primates may have existed in the late Cretaceous period around 65 million years ago ; the oldest known primate is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, circa 55 – 58 million years ago .< ref name = ChatterjeeEtal2009 >

The oldest fossil evidence of complex life comes from the Lantian formation, at least 580 million years ago.

* Paleoanthropology, the study of fossil evidence for human evolution, studying hominid fossil evidence and dating to determine matters such as the time and manner in which the mandible evolved, the effect of nature and environment on bipedality or the use of opposable thumb, with hominid classification and the individual naming of the proposed species and their place in primatology, the study of primates.