Sentences with phrase «early paleontological»

Early paleontological sites in the Bahamas have yielded bones from numerous species of reptiles, birds and mammals that no longer exist on the islands.

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[49] Dawkins therefore commits himself here to an empirical claim about the geological record, in contrast to his earlier claim that, «The paleontological evidence can be argued about, and I am not qualified to judge it.»

Peter Hochuli and Susanne Feist - Burkhardt from Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, studied two drilling cores from Weiach and Leuggern, northern Switzerland, and found pollen grains that resemble fossil pollen from the earliest known flowering plants.

An Ice Age paleontological - turned - archaeological site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000 - year - old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans.

Swiss and U.S. American researchers led by the Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich have discovered the fossil remains of one of the earliest large - sized predatory fishes of the Triassic period: an approximately 1.8 - meter - long primitive bony fish with long jaws and sharp teeth.

«The anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract of Saurichthys, in particular the many windings in the spiral valve, show the most original digestion organs of earlier fishes,» says Thodoris Argyriou, a PhD student at the Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich.

Paleontological research has now found a very early horse, Sifrhippus, just at the PETM.