"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.
| Descriptor ID |
D005580
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.076.368.584.311
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fossils" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fossils" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1993 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2001 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2004 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2005 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2006 | 17 | 3 | 20 |
| 2007 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2009 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2011 | 11 | 3 | 14 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2013 | 10 | 11 | 21 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9 | 20 |
| 2015 | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| 2016 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 2017 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2019 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2020 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain. Nature. 2023 Feb; 614(7948):486-491.
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Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur. Elife. 2022 11 30; 11.
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Fossil bone histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods. Commun Biol. 2022 11 28; 5(1):1280.
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The earliest segmental sternum in a Permian synapsid and its implications for the evolution of mammalian locomotion and ventilation. Sci Rep. 2022 08 05; 12(1):13472.
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A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic. Nature. 2022 08; 608(7923):563-568.
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Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy. Nature. 2022 07; 607(7920):726-731.
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The impact of paleoclimatic changes on body size evolution in marine fishes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 07 19; 119(29):e2122486119.
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New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergent evolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction. Curr Biol. 2022 07 25; 32(14):3195-3202.e5.
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Mechanical compensation in the evolution of the early hominin feeding apparatus. Proc Biol Sci. 2022 06 08; 289(1976):20220711.
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Extant species fail to estimate ancestral geographical ranges at older nodes in primate phylogeny. Proc Biol Sci. 2022 05 25; 289(1975):20212535.