Clearly, viewing fossil exhibits through such venues was limited to a narrow portion of the public.
The museum promises to present "the truth of God's Word using the latest in dinosaur and fossil exhibits".
It has a bookstore, fossil exhibits, an interactive Triassic Virtual Tour, limited food service, a gift shop, and public restrooms.
In contrast to the taphonomic expression of other Cambrian and Neoproterozoic medusoid fossils, which are impressions in coarse sediments, these new medusoid fossils exhibit Burgess Shale-type preservation [22] and are preserved as organic compressions on very fine-grained marine sediments.
As noted above in Results, the humeral fossils exhibit several derived features shared only with M. tuberculata and M. robusta.
Extinct taxa should play a critical role in efforts to resolve placental supraordinal phylogeny because fossils exhibit unique combinations of primitive and derived characters that help to break up long branches [ 36] that otherwise might attract due to homoplasy rather than homology.
Although fossils exhibiting transitional features do not generally represent the direct ancestors of modern organisms, there are, of course, exceptions.
The fossil record is, of course, incomplete, but since Darwin's time, paleontologists have discovered many, many fossils exhibiting transitional features from major milestones in the history of life.
Fig. 1 Fossil horse exhibit, which is part of the Darwin travelling exhibit (Denis Finnin photo, reproduced with permission of the American Museum of Natural History, NY).
In the actual fossil horse exhibit data, coders independently rated each component as either orthogenetic or branching (Cohen's kappa 0.94).
