1. A few other fossil species of Rhus are known from the Tertiary rocks. 2. A major difficulty arises when fossil species disappear for good as the physical environment, over millions of years, inevitably changes. 3. Ants frequently got caught in the pine resins that were destined to become amber, and numerous fossil species have been recognized. 4. The thicker shelled species often carry a distinctive sculpture, which is also important in identifying fossil species. 5. There are species living today related to this fossil species. 6. As Mayor said, the first myth showed that the perceptive ancients were able to relate a fossil species to living animals, well before modern paleontology. 7. A few modern species of lizards can run on two legs, but they bear only the most distant relationship to the fossil Eudibamus species, Berman said. 8. Dr. Lee-Thorp was a pioneer in developing techniques for sampling tooth enamel for carbon clues to diets of fossil species. 9. Labandeira said that his continuing study of fossil species would likely corroborate the new findings. 10. Their name for the new fossil species is Confuciusornis sanctus, for holy Confucius bird. |