"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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| Concept/Terms |
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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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| 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 | 18 | 3 | 21 |
| 2007 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2009 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2011 | 14 | 4 | 18 |
| 2012 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2013 | 14 | 11 | 25 |
| 2014 | 12 | 9 | 21 |
| 2015 | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| 2016 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
| 2017 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2018 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2019 | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| 2020 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2021 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| 2022 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2023 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2024 | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| 2025 | 9 | 7 | 16 |
| 2026 | 19 | 2 | 21 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Bird feathers from a Late Cretaceous coprolite. Curr Biol. 2026 Oct 05; 36(19):5107-5116.e7.
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Diversity and disparity are decoupled in the most ecomorphologically diverse rodent radiation. Evolution. 2026 Sep 07; 80(9):2046-2061.
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Sediment accumulation rate predicts the temporal resolution of marine fossil assemblages. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Aug 04; 123(31):e2615368123.
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Highly aquatic marine stem archosaur with soft tissue preservation. Sci Adv. 2026 Jul 31; 12(31):eaeb7528.
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New records of extinct Icacinaceae from Paleocene rainforests of northwestern South America. Am J Bot. 2026 Jul; 113(7):e70237.
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Neural tissues and chondrostean traits in a Carboniferous actinopterygian. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Jul 07; 123(27):e2610438123.
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Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition. Science. 2026 Jun 18; 392(6804):1292-1296.
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Reshaping the millipede tree of life by inclusion of the last two unsampled orders. Curr Biol. 2026 Jun 22; 36(12):3184-3192.e3.
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Stepwise loss of complexity in hagfish eyes prior to deep sea colonization. Biol Lett. 2026 May 27; 22(5).
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Hyperelongate ornamental tail feathers in a new early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird. PLoS One. 2026; 21(5):e0347641.