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“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

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

You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the…

— Werner Herzog

“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

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and…

— Louise Leakey

“The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see that there…

— Steve Brusatte

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

— Konrad Lorenz

“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils. They have…

— Bill Nye

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

— Donald Revell