Fossil

time from the oldest at the bottom to the youngest mud, dirt and sand deposited on the surface. In many locations around the world, fossils have been discovered that run through many layers of rock. These fossils are known as polystrate fossils. This occurs when a fossil is deposited quickly and through a very large event, such as a flood. This shows that one fossil from one time period can be in many different layers that are supposed to be from many different time periods. A fallacy of this…

came across fossils during their dig, but it's not unusual to find fossils in a mountainous area. what was extremely odd about this fossil is that it was an almost completely intact fossil of a whale. Whales in the mountains How did the whale get there? It's not like it decided it would one day swim to the mountains, and it definitely didn't fly there. Luckily, a paleontologist was on the construction site to monitor the area, and found it to be a 4 million year old whale fossil. This…

feature that first occurred in the fossil record about 500 million years ago. When scientists describe vertebrate evolution, they most often originate it as a change from water to…

evolutionary mechanism. Amy Balanoff and a team of evolutionary biologist used fossils and a large comparative analysis of modern animals found that the loss of teeth and the emergence of beaks are connected processes in theropods. The team suggested that over time the beak grew across the dinosaur’s face which inhibited the growth of teeth.…

The title of this article is "fossils in african cave reveal extinct, previously unknown human ancestor". This article was published on September 16, 2015 by Newsela and Washington Post. I know that many scientists want to know more about human remains and usually send people on dangerous and risky trips to find fossils in a cave or un-searched land. What I want to know is will this discovery that these two men make history. Two amateur cavers found human fossils in a well-searched African…

father, Richard, often took Mary on fossil hunting expeditions to make more money for the family. The source where Anning’s family collected fossils was the coastal cliffs around Lyme Regis. This place consists of fossils from the seas of the Jurassic period and is one of the richest fossils location in Britain. Fossils collecting are dangerous work because the cliff where Richard and Mary collected fossils is unstable. Especially, they only collected fossils during winter…

limestone was located in an intertidal place. The mud cracks and ripple marks says that while the Lower Manlius Rock layer was being built, the land was a lagoon environment. At this time, there was more sea life. There were coral reef and mollusk fossils located in the manlius at this…

tongue twister is about the fossil collector Mary Anning. Mary became well known for the discovery of new species of fossil and contributions to the field of planetology . Anning would sell her fossils down by the sea shore to collectors and scientists, as way to make a living . She was not fully recognized during her lifetime for her work because of her low social class and gender. Anning played a role in further understanding natural science (geology) and popularized fossils and their value to…

In the reading, the author claims that existence of the actual tissue in dinosaur fossil is not implausible by pointing out three different explanations in favor of this statement due to the perusing regarding T.rex leg bone. However, finding all the ideas dubious, the lecturer totally repudiates the claim and presents some conspicuous evidence to the contrary. At first, the author argues that the soft flexible substance inside the bone channel may indicate residue of the real blood vessels in T…

The data recorded after the summative assessment on fossils showed that the students below level reading and ELLs that speak only Spanish at home both received a failing average. Students who are below reading level had an average of 65% and the ELLs that speak only Spanish at home received an average of 69%. This showed that these students did not know the vocabulary given or did not fully understand what was taught because of their low reading levels, lack of academic vocabulary and…