For this reason Greenough wanted to dissociate himself and the Geological Society map from the man who was using fossils to identify strata.

Scientists have used art, botany, entomology, etymology, folklore, fossils, genetics, and travel records to try to figure out where the coconut first appeared.

"He used fossils to focus broader questions that have relevance beyond fish."

Local Native Americans are known to have used fossils for medicinal purposes.

Before, geologists could only use fossils to date sections of rock relative to one another.

Calibration of galliform molecular clocks using multiple fossils and genetic partitions.

A method using fossils of small marine animals called brachiopods to determine the temperature of ancient oceans may be flawed, new research suggests.

Researchers are linking these Cambrian groups using not only fossils but also data from developmental biology.

A fine stratigraphic division of the terrestrial record can in most places only be made using fossils of land species.

The first settlers used mammoth fossils as tools for hunting.