fossils

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Other dinosaur fossils have been found in this remote part of the world in the years after 1985 - but not very many.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

Preserved within the cave were fossils belonging to 12 bird species and four frog species, offering a rare snapshot of a world that existed hundreds of thousands of years before humans reached the islands.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

The fossils were trapped between two layers of volcanic ash preserved inside the cave.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

The cave also contained fossils from an extinct ancestor of the takahē, another distinctive New Zealand bird.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

So by the early years of the nineteenth century, fossils had taken on a certain inescapable importance, which makes Wistar’s failure to see the significance of his dinosaur bone all the more unfortunate.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson