Word: fossilizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Three months after Siegel's discovery, Harvard Paleontologist Elso S. Barghoorn reported that he had found 2-billion-year-old microfossils near Kakabeka Falls in western Ontario. Among them were a number of fossils that bore no resemblance to any living organism. One was an elaborate structure that Barghoorn named Kakabekia umbellata. When Siegel saw a photograph of Kakabekia, he exclaimed: "I've seen that thing before." Indeed, some specimens of Barghoorn's fossil and Siegel's living organism were remarkably similar. "When photographs of the two were compared," says Karen Roberts, one of Siegel...
...drawing of two hands pressed together, with passages lettered beneath in a Russian so archaic that it is said that even Slavonic scholars have been unable to decipher it. Coelacanth is a brightly colored portrait of the prehistoric fish, his wizened face gleaming like a phosphorescent fossil. Plavinsky, says Mrs. Stevens, is entirely unaware that a fish is the Christian symbol for Christ...
...dilemma for Buddhists and the more awkward the questions that arise. Can Buddhism accommodate itself to nationalism and the modern desires for material advancement, which are seemingly the very opposite of Buddhist doctrine? The author's answer: "If Buddhism does not adapt, it will become a cultural fossil. If it adapts too much, it becomes adulterated and loses its essence and integrity." It is the search for the middle way between these two alternatives, suggests Schecter, that causes the painful grimace so often discernible today on the new face of Buddha...
...surprising first of all that anything was alive that far back," J. William Schopf, Junior Fellow, and co-discover of the fossil along with Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany, said yesterday. "But more important was finding anything so complex as an apparently photosynthetic organism," Schopf added...
...summer of 1965, Schopf found fossilized remnants of bacteria in rock samples that Barghoorn had brought back from Africa. The fossil organisms -- from a Fig Tree formation in eastern Transvaal, South Africa -- were then the oldest form of life known...