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Mary Anning". Lyme Regis Museum. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018 . Retrieved 21 August 2018. This kit is recommended for kids ages 8 and up. Some of the scientific concepts in the learning guide may be difficult for younger kids, but they should be fine with a parent's help.

She identified ammonites, gastropods, Mosasaur teeth, and even a piece of dinosaur bone. The fossil she was most fascinated with, though, was the coprolite, which—as the guide states—is “fossilized animal poop.” My child dissolved into giggles once she realized she’d found fossilized animal scat. She couldn’t wait to show it to her sisters. The Plains tribes of North America are thought to have similarly associated fossils, such as the many intact pterosaur fossils naturally exposed in the region, with their own mythology of the thunderbird. [76]Neuendorf, Klaus K. E.; Institute, American Geological (2005). Glossary of Geology. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-922152-76-6. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023 . Retrieved 7 June 2020. Though the fossil record is incomplete, numerous studies have demonstrated that there is enough information available to give us a good understanding of the pattern of diversification of life on Earth. [9] [10] [11] In addition, the record can predict and fill gaps such as the discovery of Tiktaalik in the arctic of Canada. [12] Fossilization processes Peterson, Joseph E.; Lenczewski, Melissa E.; Scherer, Reed P. (October 2010). Stepanova, Anna (ed.). "Influence of Microbial Biofilms on the Preservation of Primary Soft Tissue in Fossil and Extant Archosaurs". PLOS ONE. 5 (10): 13A. Bibcode: 2010PLoSO...513334P. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013334. PMC 2953520. PMID 20967227. Fossils appear to have directly contributed to the mythology of many civilizations, including the ancient Greeks. Classical Greek historian Herodotos wrote of an area near Hyperborea where gryphons protected golden treasure. There was indeed gold mining in that approximate region, where beaked Protoceratops skulls were common as fossils. a b Grotzinger, John P. (24 January 2014). "Introduction to Special Issue – Habitability, Taphonomy, and the Search for Organic Carbon on Mars". Science. 343 (6169): 386–387. Bibcode: 2014Sci...343..386G. doi: 10.1126/science.1249944. PMID 24458635.

The Virtual Fossil Museum – Fossils Across Geological Time and Evolution". Archived from the original on 8 March 2007 . Retrieved 4 March 2007. Brian Vastag (21 August 2011). "Oldest 'microfossils' raise hopes for life on Mars". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011 . Retrieved 21 August 2011.

Jablonski, David; Roy, Kaustuv; Valentine, James W.; Price, Rebecca M.; Anderson, Philip S. (16 May 2003). "The impact of the pull of the recent on the history of marine diversity". Science. 300 (5622): 1133–1135. Bibcode: 2003Sci...300.1133J. doi: 10.1126/science.1083246. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 12750517. S2CID 42468747. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022 . Retrieved 15 December 2022. In medieval China, the fossil bones of ancient mammals including Homo erectus were often mistaken for " dragon bones" and used as medicine and aphrodisiacs. In addition, some of these fossil bones are collected as "art" by scholars, who left scripts on various artifacts, indicating the time they were added to a collection. One good example is the famous scholar Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty during the 11th century, who kept a specific seashell fossil with his own poem engraved on it. [78] In his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088, Song dynasty Chinese scholar-official Shen Kuo hypothesized that marine fossils found in a geological stratum of mountains located hundreds of miles from the Pacific Ocean was evidence that a prehistoric seashore had once existed there and shifted over centuries of time. [79] [80] His observation of petrified bamboos in the dry northern climate zone of what is now Yan'an, Shaanxi province, China, led him to advance early ideas of gradual climate change due to bamboo naturally growing in wetter climate areas. [80] [81] [82] Hints of fossil DNA discovered in dinosaur skull" by Michael Greshko, 3 March 2020, National Geographic

Subfossils Collections". South Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011 . Retrieved 23 January 2014. Chemical or Molecular Fossils". petrifiedwoodmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014 . Retrieved 15 September 2013. In the end, I reached my goal of finding at least something. Two pretty small somethings—a neural arch from a Brachychampsa spine and a tooth fragment with a so-far-unknown origin. I understood, when the day was over, why paleontologists and archaeologists and really anyone who digs for things they may never find would continue their work: the sense of accomplishment is overwhelming. It’s hours of nothing and then suddenly something, a piece of ancient history that you can hold in your hand, a connection with the Earth and its past that you can scarcely imagine. And that’s something for which to be proud, especially as a citizen scientist. Sivin, Nathan (1995). Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Brookfield, Vermont: VARIORUM, Ashgate Publishing. III, p. 23Schweitzer MH, Wittmeyer JL, Horner JR, Toporski JK (25 March 2005). "Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex". Science. 307 (5717): 1952–5. Bibcode: 2005Sci...307.1952S. doi: 10.1126/science.1108397. PMID 15790853. S2CID 30456613. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference I.; Fortelius, M. (2021). "On calibrating the completometer for the mammalian fossil record". Paleobiology. 48: 1–11. doi: 10.1017/pab.2021.22. S2CID 238686414. Milmo, Cahal (25 November 2009). "Fossil theft: One of our dinosaurs is missing". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 28 November 2009 . Retrieved 2 May 2010.

Alistair Cameron Crombie (1990). Science, optics, and music in medieval and early modern thought. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp.108–109. ISBN 978-0-907628-79-8. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 October 2018.Eiting, T.P.; Gunnell, G.G (2009). "Global Completeness of the Bat Fossil Record". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 16 (3): 151–173. doi: 10.1007/s10914-009-9118-x. S2CID 5923450. Since Darwin's time, the fossil record has been extended to between 2.3 and 3.5billion years. [97] Most of these Precambrian fossils are microscopic bacteria or microfossils. However, macroscopic fossils are now known from the late Proterozoic. The Ediacara biota (also called Vendian biota) dating from 575million years ago collectively constitutes a richly diverse assembly of early multicellular eukaryotes. Wilson Nichols Stewart; Gar W. Rothwell (1993). Paleobotany and the evolution of plants (2ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.31. ISBN 978-0-521-38294-6. Definition of Steinkern". Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021 . Retrieved 13 May 2021. a fossil consisting of a stony mass that entered a hollow natural object (such as a bivalve shell) in the form of mud or sediment, was consolidated, and remained as a cast after dissolution of the mold a b Needham, Joseph. (1959). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Cambridge University Press. pp. 603–618.