Sentence examples for insect fossil from inspiring English sources

The insect fossil record has many gaps.

They ended up in an insect fossil collection in Beijing, and scientists poring over the collection recently discovered and exposed them.

Two years earlier, members of the State House of Representatives were arguing over whether Connecticut needed to name a state fish to go along with the state insect, fossil and tartan already on the books.

The oldest known insect fossil for which there is significant remaining structure (head and thorax fragments) is a bristletail (Archaeognatha), estimated to be 390 to 392 million years old.

The discovery of the world's oldest flying insect fossil behind a strip mall in North Attleborough, Massachusetts is described by Colin Nickerson in the October 18, 2008 copy of The Boston Globe (http://boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/10/worlds_oldest_f.html).html

The oldest definitive insect fossil is the Devonian Rhyniognatha hirsti, from the 396-million-year-old Rhynie chert.

Fossil springtails are among the oldest insect fossils known.

The beds represent the richest repositories of plant and insect fossils in the world.

There are thousands of delicate insect fossils, some of them even with their colouration preserved.

Most people are familiar with the idea of insects trapped in amber (thank you, Jurassic Park), and fossils preserved in this way are often spectacular, but many insect fossils are preserved in a more conventional, and less glamorous, mode: compression fossils sandwiched between layers of fine-grained sedimentary rock.

There is a sameness about nearly all the offices at Microsoft, but Myhrvold's might also be a children's museum: there is a cast of a Tyrannosaurus-rex brainpan, a Gigantosaurus tooth, two-foot-long models of various dinosaurs, insect fossils, and photographs of galaxies and of the gravitational lensing of a quasar.