Sentences with phrase «dinosaur palaeontology»

«Dinosaur palaeontology is in a state of unprecedented vigour,» claims Peter Dodson, a lecturer in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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On the one hand we do not think that Scripture can be turned into a naïve palaeontology that is incompatible with the evidence of observation and common sense — man could not exist in the traumatic upheavals of primitive geological formation on earth, nor indeed could he co-exist environmentally with dinosaurs.

The famous dinosaur museum is Canada's only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology and houses one of the world's largest displays of dinosaurs.

Dr Alyssa Bell and Professor Luis Chiappe of the Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, publishing in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, have undertaken a detailed analysis of their evolution, showing that separate lineages became progressively more adept at diving into water to catch fishes, like modern day loons and grebes.

The dinosaur specimens examined reside in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta), University of Alberta (Edmonton), American Museum of Natural History (New York), Field Museum (Chicago), Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven, Connecticut), National Museum of Natural History (Washington), and Natural History Museum (London).

A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long - standing question in palaeontology — how numerous species of large, plant - eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.

This emphasizes the downsides of not integrating all data sources, and reveals a situation perhaps akin to that of astronomy and experimental physics in the pursuit of cosmology: Together, palaeontology and development can come much closer to telling the whole story of evolution — this integrative approach resolves previous disparities that have challenged the support for the dinosaur - bird link and reveals previously undetected processes, including loss of bones, fusion of bones, and re-evolution of a transiently lost bone.

He ran dinosaur - digging tours which charged «volunteers» upwards of $ 1500 a week, and was director of palaeontology at the small, not - for - profit Phillips County Museum in Malta, a town of 1800 people in the north - east of the state.

Suzuki has married the science of palaeontology with acoustic engineering to work out what kind of noises dinosaurs were likely to have made.

He also wants to highlight that palaeontology, that is, the study of fossils, is not just about dinosaurs.

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

Although scientific innovation is principally driven by trained scientists, research opportunities often present themselves to others — in palaeontology, this can tie into the strong public interest in famous extinct animals such as dinosaurs and mammoths.