61.   When studying the fossil record, the two students could not find the gradual, continuous change in fossil forms they were taught was the stuff of evolution.

62.   When they first arise in the fossil record, they are small guys among bigger reptiles.

63.   When this happens, the sedimentary fossil record is crushed, melted and destroyed.

64.   Why have such ancient primates not turned up in the fossil record?

65.   Before that, it has been believed, life consisted of primitive, soft-bodied organism that left no trace in the fossil record.

66.   Even so, Berman said the Eudibamus and its close relatives made only a brief appearance in the fossil record and was gone by the time dinosaurs appeared.

67.   Even so, Berman said, the Eudibamus and its close relatives made only a brief appearance in the fossil record and were gone by the time dinosaurs appeared.

68.   In the fossil record, mastodons are not scarce.

69.   Still, what emerged from the fossil record was more like an alligator than a crocodile.

70.   That, and the speed with which they were buried, accounted for their survival in the fossil record, he said.