Sentences with phrase «paleontology shows»

In fact, paleontology shows us that dinosaurs were highly adaptive and complex life forms, living at the edge of chaos.

Paleontology shows that a warmer world sustains more total life and more diversity of life.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time.

Not exact matches

«Analyses like these are powerful tools and go to show that paleontology doesn't always rely on the discovery of new fossils,» Giles said.

In their latest study, published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Scott Evans, a graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences, and Mary Droser, a professor of paleontology, both in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, show that the Ediacaran - era fossil animal Dickinsonia developed in a complex, highly regulated way using a similar genetic toolkit to today's animals.

The newly described species (artist's representation shown), which lived between 220 million and 230 million years ago, was one of the largest in a group of amphibians known as metoposaurs and is the first known in this region from well - preserved fossils, the researchers report online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

«Now,» she says, «when you're doing work on public land in an area that's likely to have fossil resources, you have to show how you're going to deal with them,» a process known as mitigation paleontology.

A dental analysis showed that K. simmonsae's molars were large and rectangular, and had more cusps than the teeth of other multituberculates, said study lead researcher Thomas Williamson, a curator of paleontology a the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

UA Museum of the North research assistant Heather MacFarlane shows off one of the dinosaur bone fragments discovered in Denali National Park in July 2016 by museum researchers working with the park's paleontology staff.

«It's a work in progress, but molecular paleontology might show us how dinosaurs are related to each other and even provide some physiological insights if we're really lucky.»

Paleontology has shown that organic life evolved quickly after the Earth's surface cooled and became life - hospitable.

«The recent research findings show that during the last Ice Age, mammoths were the most widely distributed large mammals, thus rightfully serving as a flagship species of the glacial era,» according to Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke, an Ice Age researcher at the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar.

Paleontology has not yet shown the limits of benefits of warming, and always shows the detriment of cooling.