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Fossil Word of the Day

The Fossil Word of the Day is RNA. RNA in context to Fossil means:

A linear, usually single-stranded polymer of ribonucleotides, each containing the sugar ribose in association with a phosphat ... Read More

Fossil News

Rare fossil discovered in Antarctic (CNN.com)
A new fossil discovery provides evidence that the Antarctic continent was once much warmer than today and may have been able to sustain life. Read More

Shrimp fossil tells of once (and future?) temperate Antarctic [60-Second Science Blog] (Scientific American)
Was the Antarctic once a balmier place? Researchers report in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B that a fossil of a tiny crustacean offers proof that it had a relatively toasty clime as recently as 14 million years ago. The rocks in eastern Antarctica's Dry Valleys region yielded the fossil of an ostracod (seen at left)--a shrimp-like crustacean that lived in an ancient ... Read More

Eating Less Meat And Junk Food Could Cut Fossil Energy Fuel Use Almost In Half (Science Daily)
An estimated 19 percent of total energy used in the USA is taken up in the production and supply of food. It is important that ways of reducing this significant fuel consumption in the US food system are found. Researchers now set out strategies which could potentially cut fossil energy fuel use by as much as 50 percent. Read More

25-mn-year-old tree rock fossil found in Kasauli (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Chandigarh, July 24 (IANS) Geologists here are excited about the discovery of a huge, 25-million-year-old rock fossil of a palm tree in Kasauli town in Himachal Pradesh. Read More

25-mn-year-old tree rock fossil found in Kasauli (Calcutta News)
Geologists here are excited about the discovery of a huge, 25-million-year-old rock fossil of a palm tree in Kasauli town in Himachal Pradesh. The 5.1 by 0.9 meter fossil was standing steadily on a sandstone rock in Jagjit Nagar, Kasauli. Read More

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