| Vertebrates were once the only major animal group not found fossilised in the Cambrian system of rocks. |
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| Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones. |
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| Mammoth skulls are made of light and thin bone and usually disintegrate before they can be fossilised. |
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| For most people, the discovery of fossilised wood in a quarry would not be newsworthy. |
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| In the course of excavating the Manchester and Bolton Railway in the late 1830s, navvies unearthed large numbers of fossilised trees. |
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| Amber is the fossilised resin of ancient pine trees, submerged under the sea in thin veins. |
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| The images also revealed how time past can be fossilised and projected to the present. |
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| Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised? |
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| There is the added question of how the dinosaurs are to be fossilised in a desert. |
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| Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes. |
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| Most of those that were fossilised go unrecognised by the untrained eye. |
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| Here bats, fossilised coral, stalagmites and stalactites can all be found. |
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| The tragedy of Gemini is that he got fossilised in one type of portrayal. |
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| He's got it into his head to replace the fossil fuels he uses to heat the air and water in his Highgrove residence with wood before it becomes fossilised. |
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| The figure of one million years and greater is derived from the fossilised fauna found side by side with the burnt antelope bones in the same layer of decalcified sand. |
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| It is, in many ways, a timeworn, if not fossilised system that we must leave behind. |
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| Simon Braddy of the University of Bristol, in England, and his colleagues have found the fossilised claw of a giant sea scorpion. |
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| Most Poles read it enthusiastically as an allegorical account of their own fossilised power structures. |
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| The presence of walnut trees in Dordogne as far back as 8 000 BC is attested by fossilised wood and shells. |
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| It has been fossilised in thousands of landfill sites and on street corners around the world. |
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| In the face of slowing growth, high inflation and awful corruption, the government is looking increasingly fossilised. |
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| League standings have fossilised as wage bills have risen, and the gap can be enormous. |
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| Members of their organisations actively engage their liaising and communication skills, for example, and help to change fossilised structures. |
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| I increasingly get the impression, though, that this comprehensive dialogue is becoming a fossilised and predictable ritual. |
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| The root causes8 of this practice lie chiefly in the tendency for traditions to become fossilised in migrant communities. |
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| In addition there is a well developed invertebrate fauna and plant remains in the form of fossilised mangroves and sea-grass. |
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| However, all the contemporary examples she quotes show folk beliefs as an active element of people's lives, not as unchanging fossilised remnants. |
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| Conventional beer filters are made of either densely packed fibres or a dusty material called kieselguhr, which consists of fossilised hard-walled algae called diatoms. |
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| For example, Star Anise, that peculiar spice that looks like a fossilised flower, has really changed my stews, adding an unfamiliar glamour to shin of beef. |
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| Pliny correctly identifies the origin of amber as the fossilised resin of pine trees. |
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| This find is the first evidence of fossilised orchids to date and shows insects were active pollinators of orchids then. |
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| John Saeed defines an idiom as collocated words that became affixed to each other until metamorphosing into a fossilised term. |
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| The amber comes from near Cortina d'Ampezzo, a town in the Italian Dolomites. Amber is fossilised tree resin, and the trees in question were conifers living on the northern edge of a long-vanished ocean called Tethys. |
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| This type of factory is the most widespread today, and is often found fossilised. |
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| Up until now, just two fossilised tyrannosaurs with elongated heads had been found. |
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| One of the most important things palaeobiologists need to know about fossilised animals is how much they weighed. |
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| The fossilised footprint was left by a lizard called dicynodonts, which roamed the earth before the dinosaurs. |
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| Limestone from kimmeridgien with oysters fossilised. |
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| Of course, it sometimes happens that there are leaks when the information is sensational, as was the case with the announcement of the cloning of the sheep Dolly and of the discovery of fossilised microbes on a meteorite. |
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| Trade union representatives sit on the Disciplinary Board and the Staff Regulations Committee, thereby making it impossible to remove disloyal officials and preserving the Staff Regulations in their fossilised state. |
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| Trace fossils are the remains of the activity of an animal, such as preserved trackways, footprints, fossilised egg shells, and nests. |
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| Driving north from Coonawarra, visit the World heritage-listed Naracoorte Caves National Park, where the 26 limestone caves house the fossilised skeletons of giant marsupials. |
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| The chemistry of its fossils is similar to that of fossilised vascular plants, rather than algae. |
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| The exceptional soil is clayey for the most part, which is quite typical of Saint-Estèphe. It is also full of fossilised cockleshells and sea urchins. |
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| The exhibition takes us from the fossilised head of an iguanodon, discovered during mining, to an engraving of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire at the beginning of the industrial revolution. |
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| In the museum's reserves, we found the fossilised bones of woolly mammoth and rhinoceros brought back from our teams' travels in China and the Gobi desert. |
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| After the Middle Ages, the word elf tended to be replaced by other terms, becoming archaic, dialectal, or surviving only in fossilised terms. |
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| A creature named Cheirotherium was, for a long time and still may be, only known from its fossilised trail. |
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| The soil is chalked with many little oysters fossilised. |
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| Also, a look at fossilised horsetail ferns, a 200 million-year-old teleosaur footprint and of course those dinosaur prints. |
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| It is certainly not just fossil fans who enjoy the fossilised tree trunks from Indonesia, which together with orchids, water features and numerous benches, become an area of peace amidst the hubbub of the show. |
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| Israel's supreme judges with their fossilised traditions were shocked into wide-eyed astonishment at the sight of mere Galilean fishermen addressing the court with the confidence of kings issuing edicts. |
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| Running through the Peak District National Park and Derbyshire Dales, it strides across hills and open countryside galore, with the limestone beneath your feet, the crushed, fossilised remains of millions of sea creatures. |
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| In Scandinavia, the Romantic movement was also prominent, and literary writing was the main context for continued use of the word elf except in fossilised words for illnesses. |
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| This limestone is rich in fossils, particularly of fossilised sea urchins. |
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| Dinosaur bones and fossilised footprints can be seen in and on the rocks exposed around the island's beaches, especially at Yaverland and Compton Bay. |
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| A possible fossilised dinosaur footprint is said to be on one side of the stone, though a study by English Heritage in 2015 concluded that this claim was unsubstantiated. |
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