Sentences with phrase «lesedi partial skeleton»

And last year, researchers found a partial skeleton beneath the sloping seafloor that, through DNA analysis, promises to reveal the biological details of a passenger.

Two partial skeletons, one of a male child aged 9 to 13 years and the other of an adult female, were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.

But the most promising recovery has been the partial skeleton.

ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974.

Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.

In 1883, Brontosaurus excelsus — the first long - necked, whip - tailed sauropod to be reconstructed from a fossilized partial skeleton — captured the public's imagination.

An international group of researchers described the animal in August in the journal Biological Sciences, after analyzing the partial skeletons of six individuals unearthed in Argentina in 2014.

The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

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In this courtyard, the team found two partial skeletons, buried between 1200 C.E. and 1300 C.E. in a place of honor that suggests they were monks.

While researching fossils in a museum in 2007, Sterling Nesbitt noticed one partial skeleton that was hard to place.

«I was... fortunate in discovering a partial skeleton of... Diplodocus.

Researchers examined several partial skeletons of Xenicibis xympithecus, an extinct wading bird about the size of a large chicken that lived some 10,000 years ago.

CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two partial skeletons of a previously unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.

Based on analysis of more than 300 teeth, skull and lower - body measurements, Alba and colleagues assign the partial skeleton to a new genus and species of ancient ape, Pliobates cataloniae.

The team scanned Lucy's partial skeleton, which preserves 40 % of her bones, when she was touring the United States in 2006.

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

The new specimen is a partial skeleton with associated soft tissues and gastroliths, missing the skull and most of the caudal vertebrae.

A partial skeleton of a presumed border crosser, photographed at the Pima County Medical Examiner's office in Tuscon, Arizona, was discovered in 2009 by a horseback rider in the nearby Avra Valley.

In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.

As a result of this bone destruction, whole skeletons are extremely rare at Aramis, with one fortunate exception: the partial skeleton of Ar.

When Johanson and his colleagues discovered Lucy's partial skeleton in 1974, it showed that she walked upright, confirming that our ancestors did so before their brains started getting larger.

The finds come from at least three individuals and include an adult male's partial skeleton comparable in completeness to Lucy's famous, 3.2 - million - year - old remains from East Africa.

The researchers named the Lesedi partial skeleton «Neo,» which means gift in Sesotho, a language spoken in South Africa.

There are six skulls and several hundred partial skeletons of this new dinosaur at the Kulinda locality.

I alluded earlier to some putative hominin remains dating back as far as seven million years but those were only known from a skull in one case and some teeth and limb bones in another case, and Ardipithecus is a partial skeleton with many, many, many bones preserved.

University of Michigan paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich and his colleagues recovered partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, from 47 - million - year - old rocks in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.

It comes in the form of two partial skeletons of Australopithecus sediba that were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg, South Africa, by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.

There are two partial skeletons dating to around 1.95 million years ago and they were assigned to a new species of human — Australopithecus sediba.

The authors state this partial skeleton has arm - to - leg proportions differing from the forty percent complete AL 288 - 1 («Lucy») of this species and the difference is explained by sexual dimorphism (Kadanuumuu is male, Lucy female).

Her most notable work to date along these lines was the analysis of a partial skeleton of a new genus and species of Cretaceous bird from Vega Island that she and colleagues named Vegavis iaai in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in 2005.

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).

Ardi's partial skeleton that scientists have found shows that she could walk upright and easily climb trees and move along branches — traits more easily identified in monkeys or apes.

This means Ardi is significantly larger than Lucy, a partial skeleton from a different species that lived on Earth 3.2 million years ago.

A newly published research paper describes the discovery of the partial skeleton of a turkey - sized dinosaur lodged within 113 - million - year - old rocks.

The discovery of 15 partial skeletons, composed of 1,550 distinct specimens, might just be significant enough to change our current understanding of human evolution.

A. sediba left behind at least two partial skeletons, giving Berger and his colleagues a spectacular look at its anatomy.

In the May 30 2013 issue of Nature, William H Kimbel, Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University cast considerable doubt on the recent announcement in the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning fossilized partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sediba).

Other major finds included Sts 5, a superb fossil skull, and Sts 14, a partial skeleton which consisted of much of a pelvis, femur, and vertebral column and proved convincingly that australopithecines had walked upright.

h. Donald C. Johanson et al., «New Partial Skeleton of Homo Habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,» Nature, Vol.

The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year - old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.

That species is best known by a partial skeleton nicknamed Lucy.

«New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.»

«Leviathan Edge» (2009) is a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.

Not exact matches

This involved casting a number of foot bones known for A. afarensis, including a partial foot skeleton, in a shrinkable material, and shrinking them to Lucy's size.

The skeleton, an adult male aged around 40 at the time of his death, was shrouded in a rabbit - skin blanket and reed mats and was wearing moccasins; he was found with the cremated or partial remains of three other individuals.

Researchers unearthed a partial, nonfossilized skeleton of what appears to be a 30 - year - old woman in a limestone cave on the island of Flores, 370 miles east of Java.

A fossil partial skull, teeth, and associated skeleton of a small toothed whale, estimated 2 - 2.5 m long.

The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer of City University of New York.