How to Use microfossil in a Sentence

microfossil

noun

• But he is concerned that the microfossils may have been badly preserved.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 18 Dec. 2017
• And the researchers believe the results show that these microfossils are not impostors.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2018
• Scientists know this thanks to a handful of ancient teeth, whose plaque revealed microfossils of fish scales, fish flesh and starch granules.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
• And where there are geochemical signs of life, there could also be microfossils.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• The rush of water washed ashore marine worms, microfossils of which were recently unearthed.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2017
• The microfossils also lend support to the idea that the warm, watery, mineral-rich neighborhoods around submerged vents are prime places for life to emerge, whether on this planet, on the seafloors of icy moons, or elsewhere in the universe.
  — Photograph Courtesy Matthew Dodd, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2017
• Researchers will analyze sediment samples from the test pits for traces of pollen and microfossils that might yield clues as to whether the stones were built in an intertidal marsh, a wooded area, or on farmland.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 July 2018
• Some of those extinct organisms might be microfossils entombed in rock.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• Nestled inside the dusty fragments are millions of microfossils—preserved remains of pollen spores, leaf litter, wood and other debris.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• The sediment layers where the skeleton was positioned, known as microfossils, were crucial to determining the quadrupedal whale's age, around 42.6 million years ago.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• One geoscientist had to make countless trips up and down the stairs of the department building to personally hand off each microfossil to a technician for polishing.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2017
• The scientists discovered the cave while searching for microfossils to buttress their then-radical theory that microbial life flourished on land more than a billion years ago.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2014
• The microfossil of a voracious eukaryote doesn’t exactly have the distinguishing characteristics of, say, a Tyrannosaurus rex or a saber-toothed cat.
  — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 9 June 2016
• While examining the microfossils, Porter found circular wounds of various sizes.
  — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 9 June 2016
• The freckles, Virginia Tech researchers say, are actually billion-year-old seaweed microfossils.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
• Paleosols are typically full of pollen and microfossils of simple organisms, such as diatoms, a kind of algae that can indicate climate conditions.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• However, many scientists believe the Western Australia microfossils are not fossils at all, but the result non-biological processes of geology such as changes in heat and pressure.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2017
• All of these microfossils — or the chemical evidence associated with them — are hotly debated.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
• Now, a comprehensive analysis of the microfossils suggests that these formations do indeed represent ancient microbes; ones potentially so complex that life on our planet must have originated some 500 million years earlier.
  — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 22 Dec. 2017

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