Synonyms for FOSSILS
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1. List of paraphrases for "fossils":

   fossil, excavations

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1. Darryl Granger:

   Their radioactive decay dates when the rocks were buried in the cave when they fell in the entrance together with the fossils.

2. Greg Edgecombe:

   We didn’t know these animals had two sets of flaps (an upper one and a lower one) because the fossils we had were all so flattened.

3. Phil Bell:

   Because these things are exhumed by opal miners, lots of other information is often lost, like their exact position in the mine and any other fossils that were found around it, we know of plenty of cases where a miner has brought up a handful of bones from a single animal. The rest of the thing might have been destroyed in the mining process or sitting in a waste pile at the bottom of the mine.

4. Sinead Marron:

   The fossils are significantly heavier than the replicas which makes storing, moving and displaying them more complicated than for the replicas, in addition, the original fossils are of immense value to scientific research.

5. Christopher Barker:

   Compton Bay is a famous site for dinosaur fossils on the Isle of Wight. Most of these come from the older Wessex Formation, which was teaming with dinosaurs, our spinosaurs are indeed from the Vectis Formation, and bones( dinosaurs or otherwise) are rare in that formation( which is made up of several rock layers).