fossil
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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who used to be the energy secretary, has long been vocal about what he sees as the need to move away from fossil fuels.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The discovery highlights how even well-studied fossil groups can still hold major surprises, particularly when unusual specimens are preserved and made available for scientific investigation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
"SolarStratos takes another step towards its ultimate goal: reaching the stratosphere aboard a crewed electric and solar-powered aircraft, without using a single drop of fossil fuel."
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
A dinosaur fossil that spent nearly a century overlooked in a museum collection has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of prehistoric predator.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The problem was that nearly all the fossil evidence contradicted this, and suddenly in the nineteenth century there was a lot of fossil evidence.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Both known fossils of Wyoteuthis linsterorum are now on display at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyoming, where visitors can see the extraordinary remains of one of the Jurassic seas' most unusual squid relatives.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Belemnites are among the most frequently discovered fossils in the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Two extraordinarily rare fossils found in Wyoming have revealed a strange new species of squid relative that lived approximately 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The research team also used mathematical modelling to investigate how the spread of megaraptors around the world might have changed over time, based on fossils discovered so far, dinosaurs' evolutionary trees, geography and climate.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Among the questions that attracted interest in that fanatically inquisitive age was one that had puzzled people for a very long time–namely, why ancient clamshells and other marine fossils were so often found on mountaintops.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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