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
"That strengthening parallels global warming, so it appears to be related to the warming of the planet caused by human production of fossil fuels," said Cole.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
That leaves an approximately 80 million year gap in the fossil record.
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 horseshoe crab is a primitive fossil of a beast, ancient and uncitified, but he is just as vulnerable to disorganization by endotoxin as a rabbit or a man.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The fossils of C. praecursor and related Paleozoic stem insects provide a new view of how the most species-rich animal group on Earth began its move onto land.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Clearly recognizable insect fossils do not become abundant until the Late Carboniferous.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The newly described fossils of C. praecursor were found in calcareous claystone concretions in the Tesnus Formation of the Marathon Uplift in western Texas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
They also reexamined mysterious stem insect fossils from the Early Devonian chert deposits of Britain and the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek biota in the United States.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
As secretary of the Geological Society, he listened to debates about the significance of fossils.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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