Quote by Neil Shubin

“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

“There is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time. The younger rocks in…

— Neil Shubin

“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

It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so,…

— Bill Bryson

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four…

— Richard Dawkins

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion…

— Robert Jastrow

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints…

— John Reader

“The way to peer into life’s past is to examine fossils and to determine when a branch was first created by assessing the age…

— Bill Nye

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology…

— Donald Johanson

“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their entire existence…

— Svante Pääbo

“The boy who was taken," she said. "Is he your son?" "How old do you think I am, Dweller?" "I'm a little shaky on…

— Veronica Rossi

“Interested in the origin of mammals? Go to rocks from the period called the Early Mesozoic; geochemistry tells us that these rocks are likely…

— Neil Shubin