Definition of microfossil
:a small fossil that typically can be studied only microscopically and that may be either a fragment of a larger organism or an entire minute organism
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The rush of water washed ashore marine worms, microfossils of which were recently unearthed.
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The microfossils also lend support to the idea that the warm, watery, mineral-rich neighborhoods around submerged vents are prime places for life to emerge, whether on this planet, on the seafloors of icy moons, or elsewhere in the universe.
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However, many scientists believe the Western Australia microfossils are not fossils at all, but the result non-biological processes of geology such as changes in heat and pressure.
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The microfossil of a voracious eukaryote doesn’t exactly have the distinguishing characteristics of, say, a Tyrannosaurus rex or a saber-toothed cat.
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First Known Use of microfossil
1924
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