Sentences with phrase «oldest fossil sea»
Scientists at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have described the world's oldest fossil sea turtle known to date.
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«Oldest fossil sea turtle discovered: Huge fossilized turtle is at least 120 million years old.»
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Based on the anatomical features of the fossil, Isthminia was either a close relative or ancestor of today's Amazon river dolphin (which probably invaded South America's river systems when sea - level rise expanded those habitats about 6 million years ago), or it was a descendant of an older and as - yet - undiscovered river dolphin that went back to sea.
It's not clear when or how the 202 - year - old Academy acquired the fossil, but the first scientific description of it in 1849 identified it as belonging to an ancient sea turtle.
The oldest diatom fossils are about 140 million years old, leading some scientists to speculate that they evolved along with the ascent of terrestrial grasses, which released silica into the sea after separating it from minerals.
That's why University of Oxford paleobiologist Derek Siveter was elated when he and colleagues found the oldest and most complete sea spider fossil to date in Herefordshire, United Kingdom.
Hirayama found a nearly complete fossil of the oldest known sea turtle in a 110 - million - year - old rock collected from the site of an ancient Brazilian sea.
«We described a fossil sea turtle from Colombia that is about 25 million years older,» said Dr. Edwin Cadena, a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the Senckenberg Research Institute.
«Based on the animals» morphology and the sediments they were found in, we are certain that we are indeed dealing with the oldest known fossil sea turtle,» adds Cadena in summary.
The team also found DNA from a form of marine alga in 9300 - year - old sediments, though the alga doesn't show up in the fossil record until 2500 years ago, says molecular paleoecologist Marco Coolen of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and an author of the Black Sea paper.
Paleontologists discovered a 508 - million - year - old sea creature's fossil in the Marble Canyon in British Columbia.
Only during their last days in the field, after dreadful walks through knee - deep mud, they made a truly exciting discovery in 66 million year - old rocks: The fossil remains of a particularly large skull of a Mosasaur, a giant sea lizard.
Just a couple of weeks ago, an amateur fossil hound uncovered the remains of 200 year - old diosaurs, formerly embedded in a sea side cliff.
The presence of 11 minerals, scientifically and aesthetically unique speleothems, and a 20 million year old Serenia fossil embedded in the walls of the cave justifies the declaration of the Puerto Princesa Underground River as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature.The Park also contains a full mountain to sea ecosystems and protects forests that are important for biodiversity conservation.
Among the reasons for the wonder of the underground river, Labit said, are: being its largest and important underground estuaries of the world; most complex cave systems in the world; naturally sustainable due to the very high amount of energy resulting from its unique thermal equator location, marine climate, wind and humidity; it contains unique cave formations from secondary mineral deposits not found elsewhere; discovery of a 20 million - year - old fossil of sirenia or sea cow in perfect condition.
The shells in the fossil bed at Punta Baja are said to be as old as the sea itself.
You'll learn about the amazing history of the Channel Islands as you kayak through our in harbor sea - cave, spot a genuine 60,000 year old fossil, Juan Cabrillios hat and find sunken pirate treasure!
THE OLDEST LIVING THINGS IN THE WORLD Rachel Sussman, essays by Carl Zimmer and Hans Ulrich Obrist University of Chicago Press Price: $ 45 A bulbous green blob of flowering plants in the Chilean desert and a «living fossil» in Namibia that resembles a collapsed sea monster — these are a few of the organisms Rachel Sussman photographed for this fascinating book.