fossil
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China’s stockpiles, combined with its quicker-than-expected shift away from fossil fuels, are making it the most powerful swing buyer in global energy markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The newly recognized Late Mississippian fossil also provides a valuable snapshot of an intermediate stage in insect evolution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
“This particular division of private and public, housewife and breadwinner … was built on a flow of cheap fossil fuels and car culture,” she told The 19th.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The remainder of planet-warming gases are released by smaller fossil fuel companies, livestock agriculture, deforestation, landfills and other activities, according to the study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Once we were down to the fossil “bed” we chipped away at the hard soil with hunting knives, searching for bones.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
Clearly recognizable insect fossils do not become abundant until the Late Carboniferous.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Using cross-polarized light imaging, the researchers were able to identify distinctive features that revealed the fossils had been misclassified for years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The fossils offer new clues to the origins and early evolution of the insect body plan while also revealing how the rise of insects contributed to the emergence of increasingly complex ecosystems on land.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
"Crinoid fossils number in the millions, and this is only the second time soft tissues have ever been found."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Like Darwin, Wallace had also embarked on a seafaring journey—to Brazil—to collect specimens and fossils and had emerged transformed.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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