How to Use fossil in a Sentence

fossil

1 of 2 adjective

• The fossil tale of the pinnipeds is not nearly as old as that of whales.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
• Both were known in the fossil record before they were found alive.
  — Deb Wiley, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Feb. 2024
• The Venice coastal area sits on top of a fossil layer that runs 18-35 feet deep.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• The fossil stem and leaves of a moss, from the Camp Century sample.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• The fossil record clearly showed stasis in traits over time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• Dreaming up a beast from fossil clues is not a new practice.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Throughout the year, the EU increased fossil-fuel imports from sources throughout the world.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The new study shows just how quickly the largest animals disappeared from the La Brea fossil record.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
• The model could then compare those values to the actual data in the fossil record and give itself a score.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• That means the other half comes from fossil fuels, mainly from natural gas and coal from out-of-state plants.
  — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2022
• That oil came from the transformed remains of even older fossil organisms that lived in the seas about 330 million years ago.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• The fossil record is filled with with land animals who grew to impossibly large sizes.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• After all, the fossil record shows that creatures such as whales have been vocalizing for tens of millions of years.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The pair were initially hindered by a lack of fossil flowers, which are scarce compared with fossilized bones.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Eighty years later, May and Brown, with the help of new technology and a better understanding of the fossil record of beavers, picked up where Hesse left off.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 27 Mar. 2023
• The faster the American economy moves away from fossil energy, the sooner the burns stop growing.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2024
• Wading would make sense, given the other types of fossil researchers found nearby.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• The fossil records also line up with ecological changes.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• Eighty years later, a team equipped with new technology and more understanding of the fossil record picked right up where Hesse left off.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
• Despite their extinction millions of years ago, the legacy of these ancient predators lives on in the fossil record today.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• Plastic bags are created by fossil fuels and often end up as waste in landfills and oceans.
  — Mike Householder, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2023
• The industry contends recent high prices are a result of the state’s policies to phase out the use of oil and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• The hope is that it could be used to develop a clean source of power that would discontinue reliance on fossil fuels.
  — Lilia Luciano, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Because of the fossil condition, Brown could examine each bone structure (172 of them, to be exact).
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
• But researchers who scrutinized the fossil record to determine when and how that process evolved were stumped: The first sentences uttered left no trace behind.
  — Sonia Shah, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Many of them are still down there in the ground in fossil form, only to be discovered when construction crews dig for projects like skyscrapers and transit tunnels.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• According to the fossil record, all of this devastation took barely 200 years.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Aside from a few F-150 Lightning models, all of those best-selling pickup trucks sold last year were powered by fossil fuels.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 12 Feb. 2023
• The earliest horse ancestors started popping up in the fossil record around 56 million years ago.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 June 2023
• In fact, fossil smuggling out of Brazil remains a vexing problem for authorities.
  — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024

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fossil

2 of 2 noun

• The first fossils of it were found in the 1940s on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Two of the fossils appeared to be unknown to the fossil record.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• The rest of the team clambered over to the fossil, running their hands along the jagged surface.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The fossil has an enormous jaw with 12 rows of sharp teeth and large spines along its back.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• The girls received waders and fossil sifters as gifts, and were excited to test them out.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 26 Jan. 2023
• The cliffs at the site contain fossils of similar age as the pterosaur ones, the oldest yet found in the country.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
• Share [Findings] The world’s oldest bamboo fossil turned out to be a conifer.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• And while the chassis may be a living fossil, the 7.3-liter V-8 debuted just a few years ago.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 June 2023
• Growing up on the Isle of Wight, she is fascinated by fossils that wash up on the shore.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• The dinosaur may have had feathers, but researchers can’t tell for certain from the fossil.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• And while sharks once swam in Mammoth Cave's waters, fossils are all that are left in modern times.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2023
• This is where the human fossil from Banyoles comes into the story.
  — Brian Anthony Keeling, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• In addition to the dinos, there are an outdoor fossil dig, a play area and a photo op.
  — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
• Each one started as a fragment of something else—a tiny fossil, a scrap of basalt, a shark’s tooth—that drifted down to the plain at the very bottom of the ocean.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• Most of the fossils have been reconstructed from a partial skull from Burkeville, Texas.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• This allowed the researchers to identify the fossil in its entirety for the first time.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
• The mammal in the fossil duo is the meat-eating Repenomamus robustus, about the size of a house cat, Mallon said.
  — Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
• The fossils were uncovered in 1965, but for decades a lack of other finds meant this species remained a mystery.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2023
• The designs are based on the book’s renditions, drawn by other artists and based on fossils, of what the animals looked like.
  — J. Harry Jones, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
• Ginkgo This tree is known as a living fossil being as these trees can live 3,000 years.
  — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 15 July 2023
• Many researchers had assumed Cambrian critters would be long gone by the time of the Welsh fossils.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 May 2023
• The new building code is the state’s second stab at cutting fossil fuels from new buildings.
  — Sabrina Shankman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• The throat pouch has been preserved in some fossils, and scientists believe it was used for food storage.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• Some institutions use this method to keep fossils in great shape.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
• The other half comes from burning coal or fossil gas to make the calcination happen.
  — Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
• Buc’ee’s is a larger-than-life mega-convenience store and now has a fossil named after its beaver mascot.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
• Both my five- and seven-year-olds have a fascination for fossils.
  — Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• But many of these fossils are fragmentary and offer little detail on what this strange fish looked like.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Fans of fossils and minerals will enjoy a trip to Museum de Oude Aarde.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2023
• Finding and uncovering fossil pinnipeds in the first place is a challenging task.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024