as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas
some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged
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Both their style and wear and tear may render glass blocks into fossils.
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Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
This dig kit from the science pros at National Geographic lets kids tap into their love of fossils, prehistory, and, well, dirt.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2024
While researchers had discovered snake fossils with two limbs, no fossil had ever shown all four limbs—until Martill and his team’s discovery.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
The section on geologic time explores how educators like Hitchcock described estimations of the earth’s age by delineating geologic strata in long, colorful maps, as well as painstakingly drawing assemblages of fossils to understand and disseminate the human discoveries of ancient life.
—Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
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Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
This dig kit from the science pros at National Geographic lets kids tap into their love of fossils, prehistory, and, well, dirt.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2024
While researchers had discovered snake fossils with two limbs, no fossil had ever shown all four limbs—until Martill and his team’s discovery.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
The section on geologic time explores how educators like Hitchcock described estimations of the earth’s age by delineating geologic strata in long, colorful maps, as well as painstakingly drawing assemblages of fossils to understand and disseminate the human discoveries of ancient life.
—Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Fossil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossil. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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