"Fossils" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Remains, impressions, or traces of animals or plants of past geological times which have been preserved in the earth's crust.
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D005580
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.076.368.584.311
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Ecosystem engineering, regime shifts and the rise of animals. Curr Biol. 2026 Oct 19; 36(20):R1145-R1157.
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Late Pleistocene faunal community patterns disrupted by Holocene human impacts. Biol Lett. 2025 08; 21(8):20250151.
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Mammal species occupy different climates following the expansion of human impacts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 01 12; 118(2).
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Primate phylogenomics uncovers multiple rapid radiations and ancient interspecific introgression. PLoS Biol. 2020 12; 18(12):e3000954.
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Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships. Nat Ecol Evol. 2019 07; 3(7):1121-1130.
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Physiology, Metabolism, and Fossilization of Hot-Spring Filamentous Microbial Mats. Astrobiology. 2019 12; 19(12):1442-1458.
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A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin's enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica. Nat Commun. 2017 06 27; 8:15951.
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Dinosaur peptides suggest mechanisms of protein survival. PLoS One. 2011; 6(6):e20381.
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Biomolecular characterization and protein sequences of the Campanian hadrosaur B. canadensis. Science. 2009 May 01; 324(5927):626-31.
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The earliest known sauropod dinosaur. Nature. 2000 Sep 07; 407(6800):72-4.