Sentences with phrase «oldest fossil evidence»

Few arachnid species today are known to share a web, suggesting this is the oldest fossil evidence of social behavior in spiders.

The findings were made by researchers from Oregon State University, who studied 15 - 20 million - year - old amber from the Dominican Republic that offer the oldest fossil evidence ever found of Borrelia, a type of spirochete - like bacteria that to this day causes Lyme disease.

This is the oldest fossil evidence of ticks associated with such bacteria.

Not exact matches

The evidence is every ancient fossil they uncover which carbon dating will tell is millions of years old instantly proofing creationism false.

I'm guessing you are not so stupid as to ignore all the fossil evidence, carbon dating, and light source definition from other planets and still believe that the earth is not millions of years old.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

The formation of any major mountain range — the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, the Rockies, with sedimentary fossils at high alt!tude should be abundant evidence that the earth is much much older than 10,000 years.

NO WAIT, there is fossil evidence that we are much much older and the earth is billions of years old

Carbon - 14 found in fossils at all layers of the geological spectrum, is evidence, which confirms, the Biblical account of the earth being thousands, Not, billions of years old!

That and hiding fossils that, for all the world, test as millions of years old, as well as a mountain of other evidence, if he's responsible for faking all of it then he is seriously twisted and not at all interested in «the truth.»

@Fred Oh, so you are adopting the old «God the deceiver» stuff where all the massive evidence for evolution and the fossil record is just a huge illusion that god put there to be a dip.

If we completely ignore all the evidence we have that supports evolution, just pretend fossils don't exist, just pretend the Earth is only 6k years old and we were created by a higher being, where does it show it was the Christian god character that did it?

Finding evidence of malformation mechanisms in 252 million year old pollen fossils is impossible, so Looy and others have looked for other ways to determine whether increased UV - B disrupted the end - Permian ecosystem.

If polypterids are really as old scientists have believed, where's the fossil evidence?

A 12 - million - year - old fossil hominid from Spain provides the strongest evidence yet for this idea.

«If that is true, then if we look at older fossil assemblages — say 1 to 1.6 billion years old — the fossilized eukaryote will show no evidence of predation,» Porter said.

But surprisingly, fossil and geological evidence indicates that the footprints are 5.7 million years old.

In June, however, researchers reported evidence of blood cells and collagen fibers in poor - quality fossil fragments that were 75 million years old.

The same NASA researchers who made headlines in 1996 by announcing they had found what looked like fossil bacteria in a 4 - billion - year - old Martian meteorite have now discovered more evidence to back their controversial claim.

Until this year, the oldest evidence of copulation in higher animals came from 180 - million - year - old fossils of fish giving birth.

Scientists have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa.

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.

Ohio University scientists have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa, according to a new study published March 19 in the journal PLOS ONE.

A handful of fossil species dating from five million to 28 million years old, mostly before chimpanzees split from hominins, showed signs of upright posture and bipedalism, but «the evidence has been pretty flakey,» Wood says.

At approximately 90 million years old, the bird fossils are among the oldest avian records found in the northernmost latitude, and offer further evidence of an intense warming event during the late Cretaceous period.

David Frayer, KU professor emeritus of anthropology, is lead author on a recent study published in the Journal of Evolution that found striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil 1.8 million years old moved from left to right, indicating the earliest evidence in the fossil record for right - handedness.

This 11.6 - million - year - old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its discoverers, represents the first evidence that present - day African apes descended from a relatively small, somewhat gibbonlike common ancestor — not large - bodied African primates as previously thought, scientists report in the Oct. 30 Science.

But an international team of scientists from the U.S., Germany and Turkey report this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that it found evidence of the disease in a 500,000 - year - old hominid fossil unearthed in western Turkey.

By analyzing volcanic rocks and once - magnetized particles of sediment above and below fossils from the Chorora Formation, the researchers have new evidence that Chororapithecus was probably about 8 million years old.

Dating fossils by looking at other specimens nearby is imprecise, he says, and «I don't think the evidence is clear that these are older.»

There's no evidence for those effects in 400,000 - year - old hominin fossils, he says.

The evidence of the fossils, together with the rather limited material culture of the Neanderthals and their contemporaries elsewhere in the Old World, «makes it difficult to recognise that face in Wolpoff's mirror,» say Stringer and Gamble.

Fossil stromatolites are the oldest evidence for life on Earth — they first appeared 3.7 billion years ago!»

A new 53 million - year - old insect fossil called a scorpionfly discovered at B.C.'s McAbee fossil bed site bears a striking resemblance to fossils of the same age from Pacific - coastal Russia, giving further evidence of an ancient Canada - Russia connection.

DNA studies of creatures living today suggest that their common ancestor appeared nearly 800 million years ago, yet the fossil record contains no clear evidence of animals more than 555 million years old.

These organism and Cloudina are the oldest known evidence in the fossil record of the emergence of calcified skeletal formation in metazoans, a prominent feature in animals appearing later in the Early Cambrian.

Stromatolite fossils not only «provide obvious evidence of ancient life that is visible with the naked eye, but that they are complex ecosystems,» Nutman said in a statement, adding that the newly discovered fossils are about 220 million years older than the world's previous oldest stromatolite fossils that were found in Western Australia in 2006.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of researchers has now described what is potentially the oldest evidence of life on land — fossils of microorganisms in 3.48 billion - year - old hot spring deposits in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

Is the fossil record millions of years old, or is it powerful evidence for the global Flood of Genesis?

Fossil evidence is cementing the idea that the species is at least 200,000 years old or more (meaning it's been through substantial warm periods).

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

Ooops, the science is never settled - we've long been told by experts that homo sapiens evolved close to 200,000 years ago, but newest fossil evidence finds we are about 100,000 years older than that.

Folks interested in high Arctic paleoclimate ecology can find the research history by looking at the 38 forward cites at Google Scholar for the title «A 50 - Million - Year - Old Fossil Forest from Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: Evidence for a Warm Polar Climate».