Fossils are preserved evidence of once-living organisms—typically in sediment or rock. Body fossils are preserved remains of an organism or indications of remains; trace fossils are preserved indications of an organism's life activities, such as...

Fossils are the remains, traces or impressions of prehistoric organisms. There are wholly intact animals which have been preserved such as the wooly mammoth (discussed below) or the thousands of species of insects caught up in the resins of ancient...

The fossil record is the record of life on Earth as it is preserved in rock as fossils. The fossil record provides evidence of when and how life began on the planet, what types of organisms existed and how long they persisted, how they lived, died, and...

Geologists and other scientists use fossils to correlate the ages of different rock strata (thin layers or beds of rock that differ in some way from adjacent layers) in different places on Earth. If two different rock strata contain the same set of...

FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system. FOSSIL is an acronym for Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer. A "FOSSIL" driver is simply a communications device driver. They...

Fossils for kids at the Royal Ontario Museum Where do you find the oldest stuff in a museum? If you guessed the dinosaur exhibit that's a good answer, but many museums have collections of fossils that are MILLIONS of years older...

PALEONTOLOGISTS PIECE TOGETHER the history of life from scant fossilized clues, so new specimens--products of diligence, technological advances, and plain luck--are always happily received. Sometimes new finds support existing hypotheses, whereas other times they revolutionize our understanding of life's development. A few recent...

Researchers say a museum in central Japan has right whale fossils that are at least 5 million years old, making them the oldest fossilized remains of the animal in the world, officials said Wednesday.Researchers working in Nagano prefecture (state) estimate the fossilized skull bones and...

Egyptian authorities have accused Belgian diplomats of damaging a 40 million-year-old whale fossil when they allegedly drove over the remains in a protected desert area, an official said Monday. Belgian officials denied any damage was done.Mohamed Ibrahim, an official in the Ministry of Environment, said...

The history and development of the fossil record.