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Here is the second of our crosswords about geology and palaeontology. It's about fossils.

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Across:
1: Treat fossils respectfully because they're very... (3)
3: Use this to mark specimen numbers on your fossils (5)
5: An attractive bivalve (4)
7: One way of making a career out of geology is to be an ... (6)
9: Darwin's father wanted him to study... (8)
13: Where there is water, oxygen and sunlight, life can ... (8)
14: The chimpanzee is man's ... (6)
15: A beautiful mineral in which some fine ammonites are preserved (4)
17: An ammonite's shell was made of mother of ... (5)
18: In Siberia, mammoths have been preserved by this (3)

Down:
1: A viscous liquid containing microfossils (3)
2: The ancient Chinese attributed fossil teeth to this creature (6)
3: A type of snake (6)
4: A mammoth's tusks are made of... (5)
5: ... Darwin, author of "The Origin of Species" 1859 (7)
6: These irritating insects have many years of evolution behind them and
have varied in size over the millennia (4)
8: A mound of soil constructed by 6 Down (3,4)
10: The evidence, remains or representation of prehistoric life (6)
11: A good fossil hunter searches every nook and ... (6)
12: HMS Beagle - Darwin's what? (4)
13: Plantlife (5)
16: The Ice ... saw an abundance of wooly creatures (3)

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