Quotes About Fossils

Todo ser vivo es también un fósil. Lleva en sí, y hasta en la estructura microscópica de sus proteínas, las huellas, si no los estigmas, de su ascendencia. Esto es más cierto en el Hombre que en cualquier otra especie animal, en razón de la dualidad, física e «ideal», de la evolución de la que es heredero.

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.

A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of 'fossils' – in religious rituals or politics, or whatever – even when their original significance had been lost.

Lucas] was most famous for his short, best-selling book on fossils, "Animals of the Past: An Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient World", in which he showed his gift for enlivening the driest science. Apologizing for using Latin scientific names, he wrote: 'The reader may perhaps sympathize with the old lady who said the discovery of all these strange animals did not surprise her so much as the fact that anyone should know their names when they were found.

The record of rocks is a script containing stored memories of earth's past.

Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, it was a happening place.)

if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present