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Meanings of fossils in English

Russian
фоссилии
Portuguese
fossilização
Spanish
registro fosil
Catalan
fossilitzat
Wikidata

Preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age.

фоссилии
Synonyms
Examples for "fossil"
Examples for "fossil"
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It's burning fossil fuels that's causing the global crisis of Climate Change.
Radio NZ
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He said that would create more jobs than the fossil fuel industry.
Radio NZ
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Concerns about future demand for fossil fuels have weighed on the sector.
Reuters
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And shareholder engagement with fossil fuel companies did not work, she said.
Radio NZ
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In other words Western Australia has more renewable energy than fossil energy.
The Guardian
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The fossil find shows some modern animal behavior has very old roots, Sereno said.
Wired
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New hominid fossil find in Indonesia;JFK's other forgotten sister.
Radio NZ
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The fossils found in the rocks of the earth's crust support this view.
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
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The researchers will use new techniques to re-examine old fossil finds.
The Guardian
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But the new fossil finds predate her by more than half a million years.
Radio NZ
Usage of fossils in English
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Nannoconus An example of stratigraphically useful fossils although their identification remains problematic.
The Guardian
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A second study, also published in 2013, examined coelacanth fossils and DNA.
BBC
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It would really help to find some definitive fossils to resolve this.
BBC
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It contains a range of fossils including leaves, flowers, fish and insects.
Radio NZ
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Caves, arches, and brachiopod fossils make it a great place for exploring.
The South African
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Both uranium dating and the fossils' sedimentary position confirm a late-Cryogenian origin.
Wired
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The fossils rarely exhibited any traces of the soft tissues of fishes.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Without it, the fossils we have for our research are very limited.
Lost in translation
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Where is the most interesting site that you have collected plant fossils?
The Irish Times
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The detective's job was to reconstruct history from tiny indicators, clues, fossils.
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
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Then they found fossils in England and North America that were identical.
The charlemagne pursuit
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But we do find fossils from that era, long before the dinosaurs.
Year's best sf 15
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Other fossils that have been unearthed were partly crushed, making interpretation difficult.
Radio NZ
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Goes about the country beating up old ruins and fossils and things.
Mike
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Van Leeuwenhoek was also the first to see foraminifera fossils in minerals.
Wired
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I've taken it upon myself to be a voice for these fossils.
Wired