Sentences with phrase «paleontologists also»

Paleontologists also point to moving thigh bones in theropod dinosaurs as a major flaw in the dinosaurs - to - birds theory.

Paleontologists also realized the animals were not dedicated quadrupeds.

A paleontologist also invents several newer applications of other basic sciences like physics, chemistry, and biology to study the fossils.

Not exact matches

The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a professional paleontologist as well as Jesuit philosopher, also exerted a formative influence.

Such process includes human history but includes also the dim past studied by the paleontologist and the distant space of the astronomer.

The find may also alter what paleontologists hunt for in the field, as well as how they understand existing collections, says Max Langer, a paleontologist at the University of São Paulo in Rio Claro, Brazil.

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

The Dawn of the Deed By John A. Long When paleontologist Long spotted a set of tiny bones inside a 380 - million - year - old fossilized fish, he not only discovered the oldest known embryos, he also found the earliest known evidence of animals copulating directly, rather than releasing sperm and eggs to meet in the open sea.

«Teeth are not only the focus of modern dentistry, but also valuable tools for biologists, archaeologists and paleontologists,» Dr Loch says.

An open mind would also make for better science: Confronted with similar issues, Western paleontologists have learned the value of training people from the foreign countries in which they work.

The team also continued filling in Romer's Gap, a span in the fossil record from about 335 million to 360 million years ago that had long vexed paleontologists.

If paleontologists encounter vascular channels in dinosaur fossils, they might also find nematodes, or roundworms, that lived off the animals» internal organs.

Led by paleontologists, the AP3 team also comprises geologists, anatomists, ecologists and biologists.

Rhetoric like this has put Schweitzer at the center of a raging cultural controversy, because she is not just a pioneering paleontologist but also an evangelical Christian.

When paleontologist Scott Sampson dug up a nearly 6 - foot Nasutoceratops titusi skull in Utah in 2006, he also uncovered hints of what life was like 76 million years ago for creatures on the hot, half - flooded landmass called Laramidia.

Paleontologists have long suspected that these observations reflect a fundamental coupling between the rates of species formation and anatomical change: groups of organisms that contain lots of species also seem to have greater amounts of anatomical variation, while groups with only a few species, such as the gar, lack much morphological variety.

Fortunately for paleontologists, they are also excellent tools for understanding life in the past.»

«What allowed this lineage of animals to start to exploit the land was not just a matter of changing the fins to limbs but also the ability to move their head so they could navigate in shallow water,» says Ted Daeschler, a team coleader and a paleontologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

Paleontologist Henry Gee, who's also a fan of fantasy writing pioneer JRR Tolkien, included an entire chapter on dragons in his book The Science of Middle - Earth.

«It could be that we are seeing two different species bashing in different ways, but it could also be a single dinosaur species where juveniles and adults exhibit different bashing behaviors,» says Andrew Farke, a paleontologist at the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California.

«The idiom that exceptional claims require exceptional evidence remains,» adds Michael Buckley, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, also in the United Kingdom.

But this past year Guillermo Rougier, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, described turtle fossils from Argentina (including the one shown here) that were also 210 million years old — indicating that turtles had already spread over the planet by then.

A beard is an instant sign of masculinity — and perhaps also a throwback to a time long past, when whiskers were the norm among adventurous paleontologists (almost all of whom were male).

Paleontologist Harry Dowsett of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, who was also not involved in the study, says that he sees evidence of Rowley's model in the distribution of surface rock outcrops.

The latest find was made there in 2010, and this new specimen has now been analyzed by a team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

Also joining the party are two of Mongolia's top scientists — Bolortsetseg Minjin, Bolor for short, the country's leading paleontologist, and her father, Bodonguud Chuluun Minjin, Mongolia's most respected geologist.

Gauthier also happens to be one of the most important vertebrate paleontologists of the past 50 years.

Philip Currie, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, says that although the paper provides the «most convincing evidence yet» that these birds did not do well in the air, he also questions the authors» conclusions that they were capable of only gliding or parachuting.

«It's crazy that the oldest trees also had the most complex growth strategy,» adds Christopher Berry, a plant paleontologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who helped analyze the fossils.

In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

By reorganizing the dinosaur tree, paleontologists have also added further evidence that birds are indeed dino descendants: previously, the theropods we view as birds» ancestors were not considered relatives of the bird - limbed group, but with the new evidence — and reorganization — they're all on the same part of the family tree.

Naish is also a paleontologist, who worked with another team in the assessment of the Aust bones.

Also, paleontologists ruled that the huge horns and bone frills common in triceratops were meant to woo potential mates and not necessarily to defend or attack an enemy.

A paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog whose heiress owner also has a pet leopard, called Baby.

Like all inquisitive paleontologists, he also had a ton of questions; «Why create a mechanical creature with a tail?

«[Dutch paleontologist Dick] Mol also notes that the mammoth lay atop clay soil filled with frozen prehistoric plants that «still had their original green color.»

In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere — one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope.

Dr. Malcolm C. McKenna, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, also was a passenger on the Yamal and joined Dr. McCarthy in describing their surprise at finding thin ice and intermittent open seas.