fossil
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"Peng and colleagues' encounter with a vast fossil graveyard is a truly unique discovery," Stephen J Godfrey of the Calvert Marine Museum wrote in Nature.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The sub took up to three people on the dives, collecting the fossil samples using robotic arms.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Steyer, 68, made his fortune founding a hedge fund that included investments in fossil fuels, private prisons and other businesses that are controversial among Democrats.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Like many other Ediacaran organisms, they vanished from the fossil record at the start of the Cambrian period roughly 540 million years ago.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
The principal energy sources of our present industrial civilization are the so-called fossil fuels.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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