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fossils

NOUN

organic remains of a previous time

Synonyms

STRONGEST

relic skeleton specimen trace

STRONG

deposit eolith impression neolith paleolith petrifaction reconstruction

Example Sentences

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After comparing the specimen with the original T. proriger fossil housed at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, researchers realized the Texas fossils represented a different species altogether.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

Most T. proriger fossils have been found in Kansas and date to roughly 84 million years ago, while the new species primarily lived in what is now Texas about 80 million years ago.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

The fossils also point to an Australopithecus species that has not been found anywhere else.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Diet could help answer one of the biggest mysteries raised by the fossils: how did early Homo and this unidentified Australopithecus share the same place?

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Trucks carry off skeletons and meteorites and octopi in jars and herbarium sheets and Egyptian gold and South African ivory and Permian fossils.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr