fossil
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Elon Musk, best known for disdaining fossil fuels and selling close to 10 million electric vehicles, is actively advocating natural-gas turbines for data centers and chip factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
How Elon Musk leaned in to fossil fuels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It proposes placing all human species and closely related fossil relatives from the past 4-5 million years within the genus Homo.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Environmental advocates counter that additional fossil fuel production can encourage more consumption and delay the energy transition.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
This was the ash that made Mike Voorhies’s fossil beds in eastern Nebraska.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
"There are simply too many fossils to study over one person's career. There's more than a lifetime's worth of discoveries waiting to be found."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Only two known crinoid fossils have ever been found with preserved soft tissue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The invertebrate paleontology collections overseen by Drs. Cole and Wright at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History contain more than a million specimens, and additional fossils are added every year.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Soft tissue is exceptionally uncommon in fossils of early echinoderms, the larger animal group that includes crinoids and starfish.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The famous Java Homo erectus fossils prove that humans have occupied at least western Indonesia for a million years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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