Fossil park
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A fossil park is a protected area with rich deposits of fossil
s. Fossil parks may be used in educating the public, and there are many fossil parks all over the world.
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
s. Fossil parks may be used in educating the public, and there are many fossil parks all over the world.
See also
- PaleorrotaPaleorrotaPaleorrota , is a geopark located in the center of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The rocks and fossils found along the route date back to the times when there was only one supercontinent Pangaea....
- List of Fossil Parks
- FossilFossilFossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
s - Fossil Hunters
- RockhoundingRockhoundingAmateur geology is the recreational study and hobby of collecting rocks and mineral specimens from their natural environment.-Collecting:...
- Fossil collectingFossil collectingFossil collecting is the collection of fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs...
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
- Prehistoric life
- PaleontologyPaleontologyPaleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...
the study of fossils - Timeline of geography, paleontologyTimeline of geography, paleontologyTimeline of paleontology* 1027 — The Persian naturalist, Avicenna, explains how the stoniness of fossils is caused in The Book of Healing, proposing the theory of petrifying fluids ....
, biologyBiologyBiology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines... - Important publications in paleontology
- Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy
- Fossil Parks of IndiaFossil Parks of IndiaThe Geological Survey of India currently maintains two protected areas bearing rich fossil deposits.* Shivalik Fossil Park, near Saketi, Himachal Pradesh. The site is notable for its life-size models of the vertebrates that might have roamed the Sivalik Hills 1.5—2.5 million years ago.*...
- GeologyGeologyGeology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
- DinosaurDinosaurDinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...
s - Mary AnningMary AnningMary Anning was a British fossil collector, dealer and palaeontologist who became known around the world for a number of important finds she made in the Jurassic age marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis where she lived...
- Fossils and the geological timescale
- List of transitional fossils
- List of notable fossils
- Fossil fuelFossil fuelFossil fuels are fuels formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms. The age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years...
s - Prehistoric life
- Lazarus taxonLazarus taxonIn paleontology, a Lazarus taxon is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later. The term refers to the account in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead...
- Elvis taxonElvis taxonIn paleontology, an Elvis taxon is a taxon which has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of presumed extinction, but is not actually a descendant of the original taxon, instead having developed a similar morphology through convergent evolution...
- PaleobiologyPaleobiologyPaleobiology is a growing and comparatively new discipline which combines the methods and findings of the natural science biology with the methods and findings of the earth science paleontology...
- History of paleontologyHistory of paleontologyThe history of paleontology traces the history of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms...