Alive Quote by Bill Bryson

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that…

— Louise Leakey

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the…

— Louise Leakey

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

We are fossils in the making.

— Wallace Stegner

“Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism’s softer tissues and even bones suffer decay…

— Ken Ham

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can…

— Richard Leakey

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have…

— Richard Dawkins

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need…

— Richard Leakey

“The oldest many-celled fossil is over 600 million years old. The earliest fossil with a three-boned middle ear is less than 200 million years…

— Neil Shubin

There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived…

— Jack Horner