All these are new excavations.

Probable fossils 100 million years older have been found in the same area.

The first is that we have fossils unknown from 3.5 billion years ago.

These were excavated by a museum expedition to Egypt in 1915.

The first is that we have fossils of algae from 3.5 billion years ago.

It was in these submerged canyons that the only fossils of his species were found.

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.

In 1984, that species, Eurypterus remipes was named the state fossil of New York.

For reasons we may never know...

I wanted to be a paleontologist, a dinosaur paleontologist, and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur.

Well, if you were a paleontologist, and you want to study the evolution of a species, you typically would have gone through skeletal remains, you might go through the fossil records, and that would allow you to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of a species.

And because of that, you start to dig around for your external memories where did you leave them?

Our knowledge of the exact relationships between these ancestors is incomplete and often is revised because of new fossil finds.

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

The first ones were found in Ethiopia in 1992, but it took 17 years to assess their significance.

Syria states that the site, which is of an area of several square kilometres and is only partially excavated, suffered damage and degradation.

You know, that is very exciting for us, because it demonstrates that things were changing slowly and progressively, and that evolution is in the making.

In relation to indigenous lands and territories, including sacred sites (may include exploration, such as archaeologic explorations, as well as development and use).

What you have here seems to be nothing, but contains an incredible amount of scientific information that helps us explore what makes us human.

Imagine somebody coming from Mars and his job is to report on the type of people occupying our planet Earth, and you hide all the babies, the children, and he goes back and reports.

So, for us, paleoanthropologists, our job is to find the hard evidence, the fossil evidence, to fill in this gap and see the different stages of development.

When I say coring, it's like ice coring, but instead of layers of climate change, you're looking for layers of human occupation.

It was here, at the Laetoli site, that she discovered Hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.

Looking at fossils dating back several millions of years it all points to evidence that life for the human species as we know it began right here.

Also, with the improvement of scientific methods of recovering cultural property from seabeds and from excavations carried out with highly technical equipment, there are now greater possibilities for plundering cultural property.

Additional activities within the framework of the project include the establishment of an International Scientific Committee, the launching of rescue excavations and the preparation of an international fund raising campaign for the National Museum of Beirut.

During excavations of sites dated to the Roman period (around 400 AD) on the Rhine delta there were findings of important breeding sites of the Dalmatian Pelican ( Pelecanus crispus ).

Although scientists did not become aware of the Wabar craters until 1932, they were located near a caravan route from Oman and were very likely known to the inhabitants of the desert.