Quote by Jarod Kintz

“Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws.”

— Neil Shubin

“Maybe. Maybe not. Look, the Latin name for this fish is Carcharodon carcharias, okay? The closest ancestor we can find for it is something…

— Peter Benchley

“What has four wooden legs and hangs out in a bar? If you answered a barstool, you’ve apparently never partied with a pack of…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Donald Revell

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

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe…

— Steven Wright

“I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating…

— Jarod Kintz

“Whales, porpoises, mermaids and mermen, dead sailors, fishes, crabs, tiny shrimps; the sea is forever full of eyes that watch me. I never fly…

— Mari Strachan

“There was something fishy about Mr. Dolphin, even though he seemed to be a regular mammal salesman. He sold exotic mammals, like Bigfoot, and…

— Jarod Kintz

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

“My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the only way…

— Julia Glass

“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