Sentences with phrase «many skull features»

The skull features big heart - shaped eyes and an adorable pink bow!

As for the disparity in skull features, a number of factors, including diet and random genetic drift, could account for differences in appearance between modern Native Americans and Kennewick Man.

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

Despite the age and unprecedented completeness of the new ape skull, no reported tooth or skull features clearly place N. alesi close to the origins of living apes and humans, says paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto.

Unique skull feature may have enabled communication at frequencies too low for predators to hear

These hominids, whose remains date to between about 100,000 and 60,000 years ago (SN: 4/30/16, p. 7), had chimp - sized brains, short statures and, like H. naledi, some skull features resembling early Homo species.

T. limosus has slightly different skull features from its brethren, but a similarly short, deep, skull and a beak rather than teeth.

It's also worth noting that the diamon - encrusted skull featured in Blood on The Sand is based on a real - life piece that was auctioned off for 100 million dollars.

Not exact matches

In August 2005 they found the skull of a man of 70 years of age, and found that a forensic reconstruction of his facial features closely resembled portraits of Copernicus which were based on a lost self - portrait.

The short sleeve, crew neck «Smokey Skull T - Shirt» features a faded skull graphic on the centre front.

When the Mad Rex IPA bottles debut they will feature a custom and groundbreaking skull design that will coordinate with the interior decor and props that are found inside of Mad Rex.

The prehistoric skulls exhibited the same features as mentioned above, whereas significant destruction and collapse of the oral cavity were evident in the collection of the more recent skulls.

This burp cloth set features a classic gift idea with an original spin with it's orange skull design.

Many of the distinctive features of the restored A.L. 444 - 2 skull are reflected in the final form of the fleshed - out head.

Featuring a fearsome skull, this auto - darkening, solar - powered helmet provides superior protection, while flaunting your personal style.

Organizers of the São Paulo march couldn't get a permit from officials to march, so the event was set up as something of a science fair, featuring several tents with the names of famous Brazilian scientists, each one with a display of scientific research — for example, insect collections and casts of hominid skulls from the University of São Paulo.

Several of the infant skull's features, including those downsized semicircular canals, connect it to a poorly understood, 7 - million - to 8 - million - year - old ape called Oreopithecus.

Differences in age and sex, says Tattersall, can not account for the wide variation in features such as jaw and brow shape not only among Dmanisi skulls, but also when compared with H. erectus fossils from other sites.

Three - dimensional reconstructions of the skulls of the Goyet dog and another Ice Age dog show that the animals» snouts didn't angle from the skull the way modern dogs» do, and the ancient versions didn't have some other features of modern dogs (SN Online: 2/5/15).

Most of its features — the length of its forearms, the shape and details of its skull — «are in fact intermediate between other dinosaurs and more recent birds,» he says.

Over time, differences discovered in the men's skull shapes and other skeletal features raised suspicions that the Two Brothers were not biologically related at all.

All giraffids in this group feature four horn - like skull protuberances known as ossicones, two over the eyes and two larger ridged ossicones at the back of its head.

Researchers studying a collection of skulls in a Spanish cave identified both Neandertal - derived features and features associated with more primitive humans in these bones.

The researchers» skull samples showed Neandertal features present in the face and teeth, but not elsewhere; the nearby braincase, for example, still showed features associated with more primitive hominins.

Those mutations help explain how Ata developed her elongated skull, large eye sockets and missing ribs — features that previously sparked suppositions the she was an extraterrestrial.

The 121 - million - year - old fossil, unearthed in northeast China, displays a large skull, developed feathers and a hardened skeleton — all precocial features.

To properly age and classify the Mongolian fossil Maelestes gobiensis, estimated to be between 71 million and 75 million years old, Wible and his team compared it with 409 features culled from the skulls, teeth and skeletal remains of other animals ranging in age from present - day mammals to those estimated to have lived over 100 million years ago.

During the experiments, half of participants were presented with a subliminal or subtle «death prime»; either they saw the word «dead» flash briefly on a computer screen or they saw an image of a T - shirt featuring a skull made up of several iterations of the word «death.»

«We discovered this new fossil in marine rocks, and many of the features of its skull and jaws point to it having been a marine inhabitant, like modern oceanic dolphins,» said the study's lead author Nicholas D. Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Although the skull had been crushed, it features notable brachiosaur traits, such as a nasal opening on top of the head, as well as sockets for wide, spoonlike teeth.

The odd tube, although absent in all living animals, has been found inside the skull crests of certain species of dinosaurs — which also might have used the feature for low - frequency communication.

But other features, such as the shape of its skull and the shape and placement of its nostrils, hint that some aspects of the creature were indeed becoming more adapted to an aquatic lifestyle.

But the new adult skull shows that the hominins combined this ancient feature with a small, lightly built «modern» face — one that the researchers say is virtually indistinguishable from H. sapiens.

Fossils from 15 individuals, including fragile parts of the face that are preserved in the new skull, show that the species combines primitive traits such as a small brain, flat midface, and curving fingers with more modern - looking features in its teeth, jaw, thumb, wrist, and foot.

But the new adult skull combines this ancient feature with a small, lightly built «modern» face — one the team says is indistinguishable from our own (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature22335.)

This new combination of features on a well - dated skull may help researchers sort out how different fossils in Europe are related to each other — and which ones eventually evolved into Neandertals.

Mah had already scanned each of his patients and recorded the position of certain facial and dental features, so he developed a technique to compare skulls by analyzing these signatures.

The skull shows a new mix of features not seen before in fossil humans — it has traits that link it to Neandertals, such as a fused brow ridge, as well as some primitive traits that resemble other extinct fossils in Europe.

The ancient skull is butting up against theories of human evolution because of its incredible antiquity and unexpected human features.

Many anthropologists have concluded that fossil skulls from Europe show a steady progression from pre-Neandertal to Neandertal features.

The skulls do share traits with some other fossils in east Asia dating from 600,000 to 100,000 years ago that also defy easy classification, says paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Those features include a broad cranial base where the skull sits atop the spinal column and a low, flat plateau along the top of the skull.

Even so, he and his colleagues think that, on balance, the features of the skull, hands and teeth mean the new species probably does belong in our genus.

Our study ups the ante again, using advanced CT scanning and 3D modeling to reveal all kinds of new features of the skull.

His skull also shares some of the advanced features of still - living lobe finned fish (well, advanced for 409 million years ago), indicating that his brain was more modern as well.

Observing features — both similar and distinct — will help piece together the Neanderthal timeline, by seeing how far off skulls from different time periods are from a typical Neanderthal head.

Authors David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Ann Margvelashvili, Yoel Rak, G. Philip Rightmire, Abesalom Vekua and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer say significant anatomical features of this skull can be found in earlier fossils assigned to the genus Homo, such as H. habilis, H ergaster and H. rudolfensis, and argue all comprise a single species within the genus Homo, with less variation among them than can be found within contemporary Homo sapiens.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

The hominin skull reportedly has a few telltale features which suggest that it falls more in the Neanderthal category than the Homo Sapiens one.

From the Middle Pleistocene eastern Eurasians, the fossils had a low, broad braincase rounding onto the inferior skull, while there were two features from western Eurasian Neanderthals: a detailed rear arrangement and semicircular canal configuration.

Partial human skulls about 100,000 years old unearthed in Xuchang, China have been found to present an extraordinary set of features, helping researchers make sense of human evolution in eastern Eurasia.