Quote by Wendy Williams

“Interesting. Claws and teeth and ferocity mixed with the subtlety to manipulate creatures larger than itself. A worthy creature.”

— K.A. Applegate

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

— Tracy Chevalier

“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

“What came to mind was a dinosaur. A tiny velociraptor, no bigger than her thumb. Relatively small, bur surprisingly ferocious. When the hasty drawing…

— Marissa Meyer

“If Darwin is right, Agassiz argued, then we should find not just one or a few missing links, but innumerable links shading almost imperceptibly…

— Stephen C. Meyer

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

— Neil Shubin

“amphibian fossils are so rare.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“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

“The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there--…

— Joseph Conrad

“In a world full of fossils, the slightest movement of a pebble on the slope of the cliff is nearly enough to bring on…

— Muriel Barbery

“They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone,…

— Jim Butcher