Synonyms for fossils
fos·sils

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1. List of paraphrases for "fossils":

   fossil, excavations

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1. Spencer Platt/Getty Images:

   Let's hope more fossils turn up, we would love a skull or teeth.

2. Victor Beccari:

   The Federal Police of Brazil was investigating a fossil trade operation and recovered, in 2013, over 3.000 specimens, fossils in Brazil are protected by law, as they are part of the geological heritage of the country. Therefore, collecting fossils requires permission, and the trade and private collections of fossils are illegal in Brazil.

3. Olivier Lambert:

   We have been waiting for such fossils for decades.

4. Chris Stringer:

   I think the Science paper is a remarkable technical achievement and opens up many possibilities for future work in Eurasia on caves with no Neanderthal( or Denisovan) fossils.

5. 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.