Of the myriad artifacts displayed within the museum, the most peculiar were a reconstructed panther skeleton, a collection of grapefruit-sized turquoise malachite eggs, fossilized elephant bird eggs, unexploded military mortar shells, an elephant skull with jaw-bone, dried elephant dung balls, a stuffed dingo, and various human skulls from the Ganges river.

When Dart examined the contents of the crate, he found a fossilized endocast of a skull, showing the impression of a complex brain, and matched it to a fossilized skull of a juvenile primate, which had a shallow face and fairly small teeth.

In the West the presence of fossilized sea creatures high up on mountainsides was seen as proof of the biblical deluge.

Eldredge's interpretation of the Phacops fossil record was that the aftermaths of the lens changes, but not the rapidly occurring evolutionary process, were fossilized.

In 2003, a scientific study was published about fossilized coral that was washing up on Palmyra.

This fossilized coral was examined for evidence of the behavior of the effect of El Niño on the tropical Pacific Ocean over the past 1, 000 years.

The Chinese tetrapod Sinostega pani was discovered among fossilized tropical plants and lobe-finned fish in the red sandstone sediments of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwest China.

The name ammonite, from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled rams ' horns.

Dakota, a fossilized Edmontosaurus, a type of duckbill dinosaur, was discovered near Marmarth in 1999 by Tyler Lyson.

In 1962, a fossilized mastodon was excavated in what is now the Fred Meyer parking lot.

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.

However, satellite imaging was used recently to map the extent of fossilized suka kollus across the three primary valleys of Tiwanaku, arriving at population-carrying capacity estimates of anywhere between 285, 000 and 1, 482, 000 people.

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.

In 1950, Bronowski was given the Taung child's fossilized skull and asked to try, using his statistical skills, to combine a measure of the size of the skull's teeth with their shape in order to discriminate them from the teeth of apes.

In 2006, a fossilized species of archosaur was named after O ' Keeffe.

The specimen, a fossilized jawbone, was obtained by Joseph Granville Norwood from an Evansville collector named Francis A. Linck.

He was a pioneer in the use of fossilized faeces, for which he coined the term coprolites, to reconstruct ancient ecosystems.

The movie revealed that a fossilized Mew hair, found in the Guyana jungle by a team of scientists, was used to create Mewtwo, a genetically enhanced Mew clone.

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.

It was these observations by Anning that led the geologist William Buckland to propose in 1829 that the stones were fossilized feces and named them Coprolites.

Large fossilized aquatic birds called Hesperornis and Ichthyornis, found in western Kansas, indicate that the shallow sea was rife with fish.

As its name suggests, Oviraptor was originally presumed to have eaten eggs, based on its association with a fossilized nest ( specimen number AMNH FR 6508 ) thought to belong to Protoceratops.

In 2000, the discovery of fossilized sporocarps from the Cretaceous of eastern North America was announced.

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.

In Vulgar Latin, enclitic cum ( later shifted to-go ) became fossilized and was reanalysed as part of the pronoun itself.

The viewers of the `` Deep Peep Show '' at 15th and M Streets NW have an added attraction -- the view of a fossilized cypress swamp.

The fossilized remains of many of these trees are found embedded in the clay.

Amber is fossilized tree resin ( not sap ), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

This is due to the fact that fossilized amber produces very little scent.

This has led researchers to suspect that bryozoans had arisen earlier but were initially unmineralized, and may have differed significantly from fossilized and modern forms.

In the late 19th century, Hjalmar Stolpe, an entomologist by education, arrived on Björkö to study fossilized insects found in amber on the island.

Insect damage to the fossilized leaves of flowering plants from fourteen sites in North America were used as a proxy for insect diversity across the K – T boundary and analyzed to determine the rate of extinction.

Pollen samples recovered near a fossilized hadrosaur femur recovered in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone at the San Juan River indicate that the animal lived during the Tertiary, approximately 64. 5 Ma ( about 1 million years after the K – Pg extinction event ).

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

A transitional fossil is any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

The Ancient Egyptians covered the faces of pyramids with polished white limestone, containing great quantities of fossilized seashells .< ref > Viegas, J., Pyramids packed with fossil shells, ABC News in Science, < www. abc. net. au / science / articles / 2008 / 04 / 28 / 2229383. htm ></ ref > Many of the facing stones have fallen or have been removed and used to build the mosques of Cairo.