Sentences with phrase «like fossil beds»

On closer inspection, the splotches and strokes seem the result of pours that have pooled and evaporated, leaving outlines of what look like fossil beds, zoological forms, crystals, or coral.

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Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake botLike all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake botlike ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

FOSSIL BED Early dinosaur ancestors like the pair on the right were thought to evolve around 10 million years before dinosaurs.

To that end, with the permission of the National Museums of Kenya, she gave them a fragment of a 4 - million - year - old fossil from a buffalo - like animal recovered in the excavation of a bone bed at Allia Bay, on the east side of Lake Turkana.