For every organism that leaves a fossil, many more die without leaving a trace. what do paleontologist do when they study fossils? They unearth the remains of entire organisms. Sometimes they reconstruct an extinct species from a few fossil bits, the look for anatomical differences and similarities between the fossil and the living organism. Name two techniques that paleontologist use to determine the age of fossils.
I feel that in usage, lyrical is the 'soft jazz' that is always done to sad, angsty, nostalgic or sweet songs. In usage, 'contemporary' usually means 'modern jazz' or 'new jazz' that is done to more of a variety of music.
Things that are contemporary are either happening at the same time or happening now. Contemporary art is recent art. In history class, if you hear that one famous person was a contemporary of another, that means they lived at the same time. Contemporaries are people and things from the same time period. Contemporary can also describe things happening now or recently.