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Arimaspi

It has been suggested that the griffins were inferred from the fossilized bones of Protoceratops.

Belemnoidea

In turn, belemnites appear to have formed part of the diet of marine reptiles such as Ichthyosaurs, whose fossilized stomachs frequently contain phosphatic hooks from the arms of cephalopods.

Birka

In the late 19th century, Hjalmar Stolpe, an entomologist by education, arrived on Björkö to study fossilized insects found in amber on the island.

Charles M. Wheatley

He is noted for identifying several new fossilized species, some of which bear his name, and for his connection to the Port Kennedy Bone Cave, which contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America.

Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna

In medieval times these were thought to be fossilized adders' tongues, able to detect poisoned food.

Coastal plain

Large fossilized aquatic birds called Hesperornis and Ichthyornis, found in western Kansas, indicate that the shallow sea was rife with fish.

Creation Evidence Museum

The "Burdick track" and "fossilized finger" were featured on the controversial NBC program The Mysterious Origins of Man, aired in 1996 and hosted by Charlton Heston.

Edward Hitchcock

He published papers on fossilized tracks in the Connecticut Valley, including Eubrontes and Otozoum, that were later associated with dinosaurs, though he believed, with a certain prescience, that they were made by gigantic ancient birds.

Fossilized affixes in Austronesian languages

Li and Tsuchida (2009) lists various fossilized reflexes of Proto-Austronesian infixes *-al-, *-aR-, and *-aN- in all major Formosan languages as well as Tagalog and Javanese.

George Poinar, Jr.

He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.

Hadar, Ethiopia

A member of the 1973 expedition to Hadar, the archeologist Donald Johanson, returned to Hadar the next year to make the first discovery of the remains of Lucy, a three million year old fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.

Henri Filhol

In the field of paleontology, he performed important studies of fossilized mammals in the phosphorites in Quercy.

Ibănești, Vaslui

In 1889, on land near Mânzaţi, researcher Grigore Ştefănescu discovered the fossilized skeleton of a Mammoth from the species Deinotherium gigantissimum.

Nostril

Though all four were outside the head of our fish ancestors, they migrated back inside as evidenced by the discovery of Kenichthys campbelli, a 395 million-year-old fossilized fish which shows this migration in progress.

Petrified forest of Lesbos

The area enclosed by the villages of Eressos, Antissa and Sigri is very dense in fossilized tree trunks and forms the Petrified Forest of Lesvos, which is managed by the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest.

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

Dinosaur State Park, which displays fossilized dinosaur footprints discovered in Rocky Hill in the 1960s

Ruth Patrick

Ruth's research in fossilized diatoms showed that the Great Dismal Swamp between Virginia and North Carolina was once a forest, which had been flooded by seawater.

San Cassiano Formation

The Patch reefs from Valle di Rimbianco present a diverse fauna of fossilized calcitic sponges (Porifera), corals (Cnidaria), bivalves and gastropods (Mollusca), Brachiopoda and Echinodermata.

Seymouria

Over the years, many well preserved fossils have been found in North America and Germany, including the "Tambach Lovers", two individuals of S. sanjuanensis fossilized lying next to each other (though of course it cannot be determined whether they really were a couple killed during mating).

Silesaurus

Fossilized remains of Silesaurus have been found in the Keuper Claystone in Krasiejów near Opole, Silesia, Poland, which is also the origin of its name.

Sites and monuments in Botswana

Botswana's most popular landmarks range from a group of large baobab trees to giant-size footprints fossilized in the rock.

Sonorasaurus

Fossilized remains were discovered by geology student Richard Thompson, in 1995, in the Chihuahua Desert region of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona.

Stanley Awramik

In 2003, he, Frank Corsetti and David Pierce published evidence in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of fossilized microbiota in Cryogenian rocks, a revelation which has cast doubt on the notion of the near elimination of life during potential equatorial glaciation during that period (commonly referred to as Snowball Earth).

Stilos

Ioannis Theologos, the fossilized remains of a Cretan dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon chaniensis can be seen.

Thousand Character Classic

Generally, "rare saegim vocabularies" are presumed to be pre-16th century, for it is thought that they may be a fossilized form of native Korean vocabulary or affected by the influence of a regional dialect in Jeolla Province.


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