Word: fossilizing
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...bone fossil, which included four teeth, is unusual because of its completeness. Charles R. Schaff, an assistant to Jenkins who also worked on the Navajo Indian site in Arizona, said yesterday...
...digging and shooting have paid off handsomely. Webb considers the Love pit one of the richest U.S. fossil finds in years, unequaled anywhere in the Southeast. Some specimens turned up in almost wholesale quantities. His team, for example, dug up so many saber-toothed tiger bones that they may help shed a totally new light on the ferocious-looking cats. Some were so young they still had baby teeth, others were 25 to 30 years old. (In appreciation of the Loves, researchers even named one new sabertooth species after them: Barbourofelis lovei...
...researchers cited as an example a fossil from Kenya, called KNM-ER 1470, which displays a transition stage between the australopithecines to Homo habilis, the earliest human species...
Because of the scarcity of fossil records to prove gradual evolutionary change, many scientists have become convinced that evolution instead occurs in brief spurts, followed by long periods of inactivity...
...Cronin, in collaboration with Noel Boaz, professor of anthropology at New York University. Christopher B. Stringer, professor of paleontology at the British Museum, and Yoel Rak, professor of anatoms and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, has contended that, at least for human evolution, fossil records do in fact indicate gradual evolution...