Fossils Quotes

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked. - Dan Gebo

These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them. - Mark Norell

There is so much being discovered about human origins. Five years ago, the oldest fossils of hominids were four and a half million years old. There has been a series of discoveries that pushed fossils back to six or seven million years old, which adds a couple of years to evolution history. - Carl Zimmer

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans. - Chris Stringer

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. - George Mercer Dawson

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. - Simon Conway Morris

The best thing about these places is that large -- as in macroscopic -- buried fossilized material is usually weathering out of the outcrops. One can see them laying about and follow the fragments to the source. For microscopic fossils, of course, no clear obvious clues are usually present. The exception is large scale microbial mats like those that made stromatolites and algal travertiles and tufa. - Penelope Boston

That's one of the most important fossils on the planet - yet it's here in a plastic box in little old Albuquerque. - Adrian Hunt

Some of the fossils are up to 230 million years old with a total value of between four and five million dollars. - Ian Campbell

So little of the anatomy is preserved that these fossils do not teach us much new about chimpanzee anatomical evolution. There is no logical necessity why chimps had to remain in the forest. - Sally McBrearty