Sentences with phrase «paleontological museum»

The fossil, now in the collections in Paleontological Museum of Liaoning in China, was discovered and studied by an international team of paleontologists from Paleontological Museum of Liaoning, University of Bonn in Germany, and the University of Chicago.

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Anza - Borrego Desert State Park; Dr. Lawrence Vescera, volunteer paleontologist at the California State Parks Colorado Desert District Stout Research Center in Borrego Springs; and Richard Cerutti, former paleontological monitor at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

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.

The fossil remains were discovered by Museum paleontologists during routine paleontological mitigation work at a freeway expansion project site managed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).

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 museum is also a designated repository for artifacts and paleontological specimens collected from BLM - administered lands in Oregon, ensuring they are available to future generations for education and research.

«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.

«The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.

Dunn, a long - time member of the Dallas Paleontological Society, donated it to SMU's Shuler Museum of Paleontology.

«Although we tend to think of paleontological discoveries coming from new field work, many of our most important conclusions come from specimens already in museums,» says Dr. Christian Kammerer, Research Curator of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of the new study.

Formally, Turkana Basin Institute, Ltd. is the title holder for the fixed assets in Kenya known as TBI - Nairobi, TBI - Turkwel and TBI - Ileret (together known as «TBI Kenya») and is under an agreement with the Government of Kenya, through the National Museums of Kenya, to serve as a repository for the archaeological and paleontological heritage of the Lake Turkana region.

The waco mammoth national monument is a paleontological site and museum where the fossils of 24.

The Katmai National Park and Preserve museum collection consists of more than 400,000 objects — from an paleontological samples to 9,000 - year - old artifacts.

Together with OSW and in partnership with the Museum of Victoria, Hester is working on a long - term research project investigating the potential of geological and paleontological specimens to help clarify the effects of planetary transformations caused by human activity.

Sprawling across the museum's lower level galleries, the exhibition had the air of a studio or gigantic work - in - progress, starting from the entry atrium where two versions of the same piece, Untitled (Lego Worm)(1990/2013), lay side - by - side like recently excavated paleontological specimens: on the one hand was the completed original, on the other a recreation being assembled section - by - section.

According to a press release from The Field Museum in Chicago, the dinosaur was named for the John Caldwell Meeker family for their support of paleontological research at The Field Museum and in reference to a man - eating monster from Native American Ute mythology.