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“But again, it’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears and past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“Like rings in a large tree trunk that had been logged and exposed, every year of her life was visible in the wrinkles that…

— S.W. Lothian

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

“The fossil record quietly accounts for me...”

— Donald Revell

“Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!”

— Soumya V

“Mort was getting interested in the rock. It had curly shells in it, relics of the early days of the world when the Creator…

— Terry Pratchett

“So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost.”

— Bill Bryson