Synonyms of fossils

fossils

noun

plural of fossil

as in dodos

a person with old-fashioned ideas

some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dodos
• conservatives
• veterans
• antediluvians
• fogeys
• stuffed shirts
• mossbacks
• fogies
• reactionaries
• fuds
• stick-in-the-muds
• fuddy-duddies
• rightists
• dodoes
• Tories
• old hands
• old maids
• mandarins
• old-timers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• moderns
• radicals
• liberals
• hipsters
• progressives
• trendies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fossils

Among the fossils found at Shishugou, Guanlong wucaii stands out as an important discovery. —Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025

While mammoth fossils have often been found in Texas, such as those discovered at the Waco Mammoth National Monument, the last mammoth tusk found in the state was uncovered in the West Texas town of Fort Stockton in the 1960s, according to Schroeder. —Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025

Of these discoveries, some species are already extinct and found by examining fossils. —Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025

An April 2014 study on dire wolf fossils from La Brea published in Palaeontologica Electronica found that dire wolves shrunk in size as the Ice Age ended, possibly adapting to hunt smaller prey in a warming world. —Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025

Because their physical appearance has changed very little over time, supported by a slow rate of evolution, sturgeon have been called living fossils. —Logan Kistler, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025

The Box Housing cutting-edge galleries, thousand-year-old fossils, and a Media Lab (featuring the UK’s largest regional film and television archive)—The Box is Plymouth’s award-winning museum and art gallery, visited by the Royal Family in 2021. —Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025

See, most shark bite fossils document predation attempts or scavenging, where teeth left their marks on bones and other hard tissues. —Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025

The fossils date back roughly 78 million years. —Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025