Word: fossilize
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...males. Davis, who was the keynote speaker at the Harvard Center for the Environment’s annual symposium Saturday, discussed her research on the impacts of fossil fuel use. Pollution stemming form these fuels, she said, cause a variety of ailments among industrial workers, including sterility or a preponderance of female births...
...related her research on fossil fuels to the war on Iraq, calling for thought to be given to alternative fuel sources...
Although it held out into the twenty-first century, the New England Confectionary Company (Necco) factory—since 1901 the world’s supplier of thin, powdery sugar treats known as Necco wafers—was an area fossil...
...attraction. A growing number of outfitters supply amenities that range from adequate to near opulent for adventures like hiking and fly-fishing in the Altai Mountains, traversing the moonscape of the Gobi Desert by Range Rover and exploring the Flaming Cliffs, one of the world's premier dinosaur-fossil sites, in the company of a paleontologist...
...recall ever seeing my parents in such high spirits. The skull that my mother recovered was in many pieces, but she and my father were able to piece it back together. It was the first really significant find at Olduvai; indeed, it was the only well-preserved fossil hominid to have been found outside South Africa, several thousand miles to the south. Unlike the South African sites, which lacked distinct geological layers, Olduvai offered a chance to get some real ages for the fossils. Using a method known as potassium-argon dating, Zinjanthropus was determined to be 1.75 million years...