13 sentences with 'fossil'

• « The archaeologist found a dinosaur fossil in the cave. »

• « The archaeologists unearthed a dinosaur fossil in the quarry. »

• « Ammonites are a fossil species of marine mollusks that lived during the Mesozoic era. »

• « The paleontologist discovered a dinosaur fossil so well preserved that it revealed new details about the extinct species. »

• « This in turn allowed the conversion of the thermal energy released by burning a fossil fuel such as coal into kinetic energy (the energy of motion). »

• « Starting in Britain in the mid-18th century, Europeans learned to exploit fossil fuels in the form of coal to harness previously unimaginable amounts of energy. »

• « One of the characteristics of industrial societies, beyond industrial technology and the use of fossil fuels per se, is the fact that culture itself is mass-produced. »

• « The study of fossil skulls has made it possible to determine that even in those ancient times, surgical operations were performed with the clear purpose of curing the sick. »

• « But what is certain is that in rock strata some 130 million years old, fossil remains of winged reptiles have been found, nightmarish creatures that until not so long ago were thought to have been born of a feverish imagination. »

• « The answer to the transformation of bone into a fossil, which allows us to read the past of our planet and its species, is to be found in the composition of the soil that sheltered them after their death. As a result, some animals last almost forever. »

• « Darwin based his arguments both on the fossil record and on what he had discovered as a naturalist aboard a British research vessel, the HMS Beagle, which travelled along the coast of South America and visited the Galapagos Islands off its western coast. »

• « Watt, in turn, personally invented the term "horsepower" to explain to potential customers what his engine could do. Almost everything that moved could now be tied to coal power rather than muscle power, and so began the vast and dramatic shift towards the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels. »

• « A more satisfactory explanation for the explosion of European power than the one that claims that Europeans had some kind of inherent cultural advantage has to do with energy. For about a century, Europe, and eventually the United States, had almost exclusive access to what amounted to unlimited energy in the form of fossil fuels. »

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