Word: fossils
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Only when I sat down in the first lecture and an animated fossil shuffled out towards the podium did I begin to wonder. Wonder, for instance, if this man's first books had been copied by monks...
...happy life, until one day, Toad, when riding his bicycle in the park, took a disastrous spill. Left thumb broken, arm turned to fossil in a cast, out of which his fingers twiddled uselessly, Toad faced the future. He tried one-handing his word processor, his hand jerking over the keyboard like a chicken in a barnyard...
...modern day protester is perceived as something of a fossil, trying vainly to recapture the glory of a bygone...
...works with the Alvarez team, is methodically examining rock samples from the Nova Scotia site, looking for evidence of shocked quartz--grains with their normal crystalline pattern distorted by the kind of shock wave the Manicouagan impact would have produced. If he finds the mineral clues below the fossil deposits, he says, the impact probably preceded and could have caused the extinction, thus strengthening the Alvarez hypothesis...
Whether or not Anders is successful, the fossil trove is already providing fresh insights about the evolution of life on earth. Says Shubin: "The find is like a Rosetta stone. This period was one of tremendous geological upheaval. The continents were beginning to split apart, and there was a turnover among the animals. The modern world was basically set during this time...