Sentences with phrase «paleontologists in»

Paleontologists in Germany have discovered million - year - old fossilised teeth that a German politician has hailed as potentially «rewriting human Meet a Beautiful Blonde Swedish Girl?

Paleontologists in Germany have discovered million - year - old fossilised teeth that a German politician has hailed as potentially «rewriting human Humanity has evolved from a common ancestor with the chimpanzee.

That distinction between flint tools not exposed to fire and those that were represents the transition from sporadic to regular fire use among hominins, according to paleontologists in the cave's excavation.

These and other details about the two animals that lived about 142 million years ago were presented by biologist Pernille Venø Troelsen from University of Southern Denmark on July 10 2015 at XIII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Opole, Poland.

However, a trove uncovered by paleontologists in northwest China is home to hundreds of well - preserved pterosaur bones that will help boost our knowledge of the creatures.

But the colors faded away long ago, leaving paleontologists in the dark about the original hues.

It's a common complaint regarding Moroccan finds, many of which are unearthed by locals, cleaned up and sold to paleontologists in shops with no associated material, or geological context, to place and date the animal.

«Imagine a cow - sized, plant - eating reptile with a knobby skull and bony armor down its back,» said co-author Linda Tsuji of the Royal Ontario Museum, who discovered the fossils in Niger along with Sidor and a team of paleontologists in 2003 and 2006.

Thanks creationists — it's incredible how much smarter you are than the most gifted archeologists and paleontologists in the World!

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.

Stephen Rowland, a paleontologist in the UNLV department of geoscience, told me that the Precambrian granite and schist at the base are about 1.7 billion years old.

But then she sat in on a dinosaur lecture given by Jack Horner, now retired from the university, who was the model for the paleontologist in the original Jurassic Park movie.

The study was led by Sébastien Olive, a vertebrate paleontologist in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences who is now on a post-doctoral fellowship at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

If you have a dino lover or junior paleontologist in your house, this is one of the best dinosaur movies to take them to, especially if you think Jurassic Park may be a little intense for them.

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Paleontologists note that the large opening would have made it rather useless in combat, so it may have been that it was used to regulate its body temperature, or that it was perhaps part of a sexual selection behavior designed to attract a mate.

In 2013, paleontologists completely unearthed it, and this week, they have described what is undoubtedly a rare specimen.

Thankfully, paleontologists have, in a manner of speaking, brought it to life.

A variety of media in «Art of the North» offer varied takes on the Northern landscape and wilderness, and a quirky tour of Alaska fossils comes courtesy of Alaska resident Ray Troll and paleontologist Kirk Johnson, the director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Chinese paleontologists reported a new lacewing species that can mimic liverworts, which is a rare camouflage in both modern and fossil ecosystems.

We don't go to all this effort to dig this stuff out of the ground to then destroy it in acid,» says dinosaur paleontologist Thomas Holtz Jr., of the University of Maryland.

«Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Truthfollower: «Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Paleontologist Charles Marshall wrote in his review When Prior Belief Trumps Scholarship published in Science that while trying to build the scientific case for intelligent design, Meyer lets his deep belief to steer his understanding and interpretation of the scientific data and fossil records collected for the Cambrian period.

«The case most frequently insisted on by paleontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down in the Chalk period.»

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

What the Genesis accounts tell us in figurative language, the anthropologists and paleontologists have discovered.

I am not competent to judge the purely scientific arguments in Phillip Johnson's essay — particularly his suggestion that paleontologists have suppressed evidence unfavorable to Darwinism, thus concealing a fossil gap.

In 1920 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French priest - paleontologist wrote (so far as I know, without knowledge of either Lequyer or Kingsley), «Properly speaking, God does not make.

In the modern era, the personages of Abbot Gregor Mendel - botanist who became the «father of genetics,» Father Henri Breuil - paleontologist and geologist who became the «father of pre-history,» and Monsignor Georges Lemaitre - mathematical physicist who formulated the Big Bang hypothesis are familiar to students of empirical science.

Piltdown man, discovered in 1911, was widely accepted by paleontologists; in 1953, fluorine tests and X-ray spectrographs showed that a modern ape's jawbone had been skillfully disguised to match a human upper skull.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

A generation ago, Colin Patterson, the senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said in a public forum that he didn't know of any evidence for evolution.

In 1972, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published a landmark paper developing this theory and called it punctuated equilibria.

Have you or ANYONE in psuedo science found transitional fossils, and how many times did the late Harvard paleontologist Stephen Gould change his theory on naturalistic evolution?

The forgery was presented without peer - review in National Geographic and was quickly refuted as a forgery by actual paleontologists.

Because many new and distinct life forms appear so suddenly in the fossil record, paleontologists refer to this period as «the Cambrian explosion.»

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

And there's Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit born in 1880 who, as a paleontologist, was instrumental in discovering and examining «Peking man,» and who, as a theologian, remains notable for his efforts to synthesize science and Christianity.

You may know him as the enthusiastic paleontologist at the end of the Dinosaur Train episodes, but Dr. Scott is not just interested in the history of life on our planet, he's interested in the future of it as well.

The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.

Ever since paleontologists dug up the first Archaeopteryx fossil in 1861, the strange, feathered dinosaur has been exhibit A in the case for evolution — and helped reveal that birds are actually dinosaurs.

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.

Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California who was not involved in the work, says it is not a revelation, even if it does support self - powered flight.

The team's findings «are on par for what little data we have for tyrannosaurs,» says Richard McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, Canada.

LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut and Christian Foth from the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart have re-examined the so - called Haarlem specimen of Archaeopteryx, which is kept in Teylers Museum in that Dutch city and has gone down in history as the first member of this genus to be discovered.

A specimen was first unearthed in what is now Tanzania in the 1930s and sat in London's Natural History Museum until 1956, when Ph.D. candidate Alan Charig (later a paleontologist at the museum) dubbed it T. rhadinus (referring to the shape of the animal's hip and its slender body).

Last American Dinosaurs gives visitors the chance to immerse themselves in both a late Cretaceous ecosystem and the fieldwork of paleontologists today.

Just as paleontologists hunt for fossils in isolated caves and dry rift valleys, cosmologists have identified relatively untarnished parts of the universe where atomic nuclei have remained largely undisturbed since the earliest times.