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 Translation for 'fossil' from English to Russian
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ADJ   fossil | - | -
NOUN   a fossil | fossils
SYNO dodo | fogey | fogy | ...
ихтио.T
индийская серая акула {ж} [Hemipristis elongata]
fossil shark [snaggletooth shark]
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Usage Examples English
  • The museum has two main fossil exhibit halls, one featuring primarily terrestrial fossil species including dinosaurs, pterosaurs and fossil mammals, and the other featuring fossil marine organisms such as fish, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
  • A full body fossil of "E. messelensis" was recovered from a 47-million-year-old fossil lake bed in Germany.
  • Fossil eschrichtiids from before the Holocene are rare compared to other fossil mysticetes.
  • A fossil species, "Centropus colossus," is known from the Quaternary-aged Fossil Cave, Tantanoola, South Australia.
  • Fossil finds from North America have been meagre compared with Europe, which has a richer fossil record.

  • Burrows are also commonly preserved in the fossil record as burrow fossils, a type of trace fossil.
  • The fossil tree trunk displayed in the garden is from 20 million years old.
  • Fossil collection is allowed at Caesar Creek State Park with the following restrictions: No tools allowed, no fossil collecting for commercial use, all fossils kept must fit in the palm of your hand, and all fossil collection must take place in the designated fossil collection zone.
  • The official NSW State Fossil Emblem is "Mandageria fairfaxi". The 370 million year old fossil fish from the Canowindra Fish Bed was named as the NSW State Fossil Emblem in 2015.
  • Fossil Free uOttawa is an active campaign that promotes the negative impact of fossil fuel companies.

  • Addax fossils have been found in four sites of Egypt – a 7000 BCE fossil from the Great Sand Sea, a 5000–6000 BCE fossil from Djara, a 4000–7000 BCE fossil from Abu Ballas Stufenmland and a 5000 BCE fossil from Gilf Kebir.
  • Many include fossil collectors. Lapidary clubs also include fossil collectors.
  • "Myxomitodes" (Greek "slime thread like") is a genus of problematic fossil from the Paleoproterozoic (1900 million years old) Stirling Range Formation of Western Australia, and is significant as a very old megascopic fossil, and thus eukaryote.
  • A living fossil is an extant taxon that appears to have changed so little compared with fossil remains, that it is considered identical.
  • "Fossil Hunt": Nature Cat and his pals must find a fossil for Squeeks' "Mousey Scouts" fossil badge.

  • "Phycosiphon" is an ichnogenus of trace fossil. The first recorded fossil was found in Scunthorpe, United Kingdom.
  • "Undichna britannica" is a fish-fin, or fish-swimming fossil trackway left as a fossil impression on a substrate; this type of fossil is an ichnofossil, and in this case an ichnospecies.
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