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Definitions of fossils in various dictionaries:
noun - someone whose style is out of fashion
noun - the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
noun - the remains of an animal or plant preserved in the earth's crust
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| Latin for "dug up"; it's the term for ancient plants & animals that have been preserved in sedimentary rock |
| In the 16th C., Konrad von Gesner published perhaps the first illustrations of these petrified animal remains |
| Geologists dig up & study these organic remains, whose name is from the Latin for "dug up" |
| Horseshoe crabs & coelacanth fish are considered living ones of these |
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| Plural form of fossil. |
| the remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form. |
| The remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form. |
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A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal, and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record. * Paleontology is the study of fossils: their age, method of formation, and evolutionary significance. Specimens are usually considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old. The oldest fossils are from around 3.48 billion years old to 4.1 billion years old. The observation in the 19th century that certain fossils were associated with certain rock strata led to the recognition of a geological timescale and the relative ages of different fossils. The development of radiometric dating techniques in the early 20th century allowed scientists to quantitatively measure the absolute ages of rocks a |