And these fossils still breathe.

like fossils would suddenly disappear.

And the fossils are extraordinary.

Many other fossils are also known.

I'm a paleontologist who collects fossils.

I mean fossils, cave paintings and so forth.

Not all the fossils are in the fuel.

So it's almost like fossils for the future.

My daddy told me these are fossils of brackens.

Up to now, the knowledge that we had about our ancestors came essentially from adult individuals because the fossils, the baby fossils, were missing.

I am almost extinct I'm a paleontologist who collects fossils.

The number of individual fossils this represents varies greatly from species to species, but many millions of fossils have been recovered for instance, more than three million fossils from the last Ice Age have been recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

Therefore, South America and Africa share similar fossils and rock layers.

A zone includes strata characterised by the overlapping range of fossils.

You don't have to think about some exotic examples, or fossils.

And there'd also be an extinction event like fossils would suddenly disappear.

Fossils have later been found in all continents except Australia and Antarctica.

One of these concepts was that fossils originally came from living organisms.

Well, how do you find fossils in areas that look like this?

And the rest is up to you. You've got to find fossils.

Think of the country clergyman or squire collecting his beetles or fossils,

Probable fossils 100 million years older have been found in the same area.

Featherstonhaugh liked climbing cliffs, collecting fossils, and gathering wild bird eggs to sell.

The first is that we have fossils unknown from 3.5 billion years ago.

Fossils from there contain DNA related to, but distinct from, that of the Neanderthals.

The first is that we have fossils of algae from 3.5 billion years ago.

Here's some reconstructions of some of the fossils that have been found from Lake Turkana.

Here, in addition to fossils, we have genetics to help us find our prehistoric kin.

It was in these submerged canyons that the only fossils of his species were found.

Index fossils are one of the species from the assemblage of species that characterise the zone.

Dyrosaurid fossils are globally distributed, having been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

The regular order of occurrence of fossils in rock layers was discovered around 1800 by William Smith.

Also common in the upper parts of the member are thin interbeds of carbonate rock with some fossils.

The only fossils of its species ever discovered... were found in a drag of the Hudson submarine canyons.

From a behavioral standpoint, one of the most valuable dinosaur fossils was discovered in the Gobi Desert in 1971.

It was here, at the Laetoli site, that she discovered Hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.

And we were able to dig up, when we got old enough, fossils such as this, a slender snouted crocodile.

And that's an example of what we may do as we walk across the landscape in Northern Kenya, looking for fossils.

Richard Owen showed that fossils of extinct species Darwin found in South America were allied to living species on the same continent.

This animal's fossils are only found in this area of South America a nice clean band here and this part of Africa.

This animal's fossils are only found in this area of South America a nice clean band here and this part of Africa.

This animal's fossils are only found in this area of South America this nice clean band here and this part of Africa.

While digging the Somerset Coal Canal in southwest England, he found that fossils were always in the same order in the rock layers.

During the middle of the 20th century, anthropologists discovered many fossils and evidence of human occupation perhaps as early as 7 million years ago.

Rare earth elements change through time in small quantities (ppm, parts per million), so their proportion can be used for geochronology and dating fossils.