Sentences with phrase «excavating plant fossils»

«Excavating plant fossils preserved in rocks deposited during the last days of the dinosaurs, we found some preserved with abundant fossilized charcoal and others without it.

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First, fossil leaves and pollen excavated from the layers immediately below the K - T boundary show that the diversity of flowering plants substantially decreased in patches throughout the region before the extraterrestrial impact.

While excavating a geologic layer from the Cretaceous era in Kuwajima, researchers found fossils of dinosaurs, turtles, lizards, fish, many types of plants, and Mesozoic mammals.

In 2013, the Russian - Belgian team excavated many dinosaur fossils, as well as plant and insect fossils.

We have teams of second graders examining plant and animal fossils and engaging in simulated digs to excavate and identify animal skeletons.