Word: fossilize
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...When impoverished households are more productive on their farms, for example, they face less pressure to cut down neighboring forests in search of new farmland. Still, even as extreme poverty ends, we must not fuel prosperity with a lack of concern for industrial pollution and the unchecked burning of fossil fuels...
...HUPD officer was dispatched to 20 DeWolfe St. in response to the theft of a black Dell laptop computer, dark-colored backpack, two silver Sony digital cameras, a silver Fossil watch, and a Sony calculator. The stolen items were valued at a total...
...qualified expert on environmental policy? After three years of reading scientific texts on the issue, Crichton claims he discovered that global warming is an altogether naturally occurring phenomenon that has little to do with human activity— and perhaps nothing at all to do with the effects of fossil fuel burning or air pollution...
Indeed, Meng and his colleagues didn't expect to find things like this at all. The smaller skeleton was discovered about two years ago by villagers in China's Liaoning province, site of some of the richest fossil beds in the world. They brought it to the attention of scientists, who took it to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing for examination. "We didn't see the stomach contents at first," says graduate student Yaoming Hu, who is affiliated with the institute and is the lead author of the Nature paper...
...proves that at least one mammal from the age of dinosaurs was carnivorous--and since R. giganticus is a close cousin of R. robustus, it's reasonable to assume that the larger species ate meat as well. Moreover, the size and anatomy of R. giganticus, found in the same fossil beds as its smaller relative, suggest that it was an active predator rather than simply a scavenger. "It had a robust body, with short legs that splay out to the side, similar to a Tasmanian devil," says Meng. "It could walk fast and probably run. It could certainly move better...