Sentences with phrase «although earlier fossils»

Although earlier fossils may be found over the coming years, this is our best understanding of when and approximately where we originated.

Not exact matches

He found that, although the bite forces were very large — around 1400 N, similar to that of a tiger — the incisors would have been able to withstand almost three times that force, based on earlier estimates by co-authors, Dr Andres Rinderknecht, of The Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, and Dr Ernesto Blanco, of Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Fısica, Montevideo, who first described the fossil in 2008.

Although the oldest animal fossils date back 544 million years, most evolutionists agree that complex, multicellular creatures probably appeared at least 150 million years earlier than that.

Although the fossil record for the first members of the Homo genus is poor, the earliest definitive H. habilis specimen is about 2.4 million years old.

There is some evidence that bats gained the ability to echolocate very early on, although fossils suggest at least one early bat species seems to have lacked the ability.

Nevertheless, it is still early days for this research: Although the researchers were able to determine, by the concentration of copper and other elements, that the feathers of fossil birds such as Confuciusornis had darker and lighter areas, they are not yet able to tell what colors these represent.

Although they had found some excellent specimens of the earliest birds, such as Germany's famed 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx, as well as stunning later fossils from northeastern China, a 20 - million - year gap remained between Archaeopteryx and other fossils, most of which were opposite birds, Chiappe says.

Although it lived roughly 65 million years before the earliest known occurrence of figs, the fossil wasp's ovipositor closely resembles those of today's fig wasps.

(See the story «Hobbit Symposium Held», below) Although given the genus name Homo, the fossils found a few years ago in Indonesia exhibit many traits, especially in the hands and feet, of much earlier members of the hominin lineage, particularly Australopithecus afarensis, which lived three million years ago and is not thought to have migrated out of Africa.

Although the first whales evolved earlier, fossil evidence suggests that two large groups — the baleen and toothed whales — got their start during the Oligocene some 34 to 23 million year ago.

Some of this climate change may be due to the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels over the past century, although an inspection of regional climate data shows most of the Sierra warming occurred from 1910 through the early 1930s, long before the major emissions.

Although polymers such as Bakelite appeared early in the 20th century, large - scale production did not begin until after the Second World War, and plastics made from fossil hydrocarbons grew to become the third biggest manmade fabric output, after cement and steel.

Although it doesn't name specific companies, the amendment is surely inspired by recent revelations about ExxonMobil's early and advanced knowledge of the role of fossil fuels in driving climate change — which was followed by the company's subsequent, unconscionable climate science denial efforts.