Word: fossilizing
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...something both significant and extremely exciting." Although paleontologists often scrap as furiously over their bones as saber-toothed tigers, they do not disagree with Clark's assessment. "It's of tremendous potential," says Berkeley's F. Clark Howell, who has spent years fossil hunting in East Africa. Agrees Duke's Richard Kay: "A blockbuster...
...years' examination of the fossil have confirmed that ramapithecus--traditionally thought to be the ancestor of human beings--is really the evolutionary father of the orangutan. The discovery leaves a 14-million-year gap in knowledge about man's lineage...
...billion or so years ago. DNA molecules lead to bacteria, which in turn are transformed into protozoans. Over hundreds of millions of years, the oceans begin to swarm with increasingly complicated forms of life. The records from those days are scanty at best, and, to the layman, one fossil looks much like another. There may be books in running brooks and sermons in stones, but they do not translate very well into...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of Geology, was a chief witness at the trial. His testimony in U.S. District Court in Little Rock tried to show how fossil records disproved a sudden recent appearance of life, as Fundamentalist groups purport...
...eight-page songbook that's the best thing about Pianosaurus. It's this: the shiny fossil is "every-smiling." Just in case you were worried he might one day turn moody...