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Dr Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, said that the landers will attempt to explore "a perfect fossilised record of the Moon's history" at the bottom of lunar craters.

Those big teeth are almost all that remains of the giant shark – its skeleton was made of cartilage, not bone, so there are no fossilised remains.

A Huon pine display case in the corner of the living room displays Flannery’s collection of fossilised teeth from the prehistoric megalodon shark.

One important avenue to growth, cited in the Labour manifesto, is the prospect of unleashing some of the £1.4tn funds fossilised in Britain’s 5,100 defined benefit pension fund schemes.

Research carried out on a fossilised tree species called Sanfordiacaulis from revealed a unique three-dimensional crown shape.

Gas is at best stop gap and more of the same old fossilised argument.

A fossilised tooth left behind by the largest ape that ever lived is shedding new light on the evolution of apes.

The fossilised bones were collected from caves, sinkholes and peat deposits across the islands between the 1930’s and 1990’s and since held at museums in London and the United States.

The population first came to light in 2010 when part of a fossilised finger bone was unearthed in the Denisova cave in Siberia’s Altai mountains.

Freemasonry may seem like crusty and fossilised chance to raid the dressing up box.

However, recently discovered fossilised burrows show that, given the right kind of sediment, life can survive far deeper.

So, if microbial life did indeed evolve in the Martian oceans, it could have fossilised within salt crystals that remain preserved on the surface.

An estimated 11,000 extinct taxa have been described, although the soft-bodied nature of cephalopods means they are not easily fossilised. citation Cephalopods are found in all the oceans of Earth.

Anning suspected the stones were fossilised faeces and suggested so to Buckland in 1824.

Anthony Burgess writes that "Australian English may be thought of as a kind of fossilised Cockney of the Dickensian era." citation The Australian gold rushes saw many external influences on the language.

Camouflage is a soft-tissue feature that is rarely preserved in the fossil record, but rare fossilised skin samples from the Cretaceous period show that some marine reptiles were countershaded.

Certain types of flint, such as that from the south coast of England, contain trapped fossilised marine flora.

Fossilised remains of Homo erectus and his tools, popularly known as the " Java Man ", suggest the Indonesian archipelago was inhabited by at least 1.5 million years ago.

Geography of Australian acacias Acacias in Australia probably evolved their fire resistance about 20 million years ago when fossilised charcoal deposits show a large increase, indicating that fire was a factor even then.

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.