«Leviathan Edge» (2009) is
a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.
«New
partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.»
h. Donald C. Johanson et al., «New
Partial Skeleton of Homo Habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,» Nature, Vol.
A newly published research paper describes the discovery of
the partial skeleton of a turkey - sized dinosaur lodged within 113 - million - year - old rocks.
Her most notable work to date along these lines was the analysis of
a partial skeleton of a new genus and species of Cretaceous bird from Vega Island that she and colleagues named Vegavis iaai in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in 2005.
As a result of this bone destruction, whole skeletons are extremely rare at Aramis, with one fortunate exception:
the partial skeleton of Ar.
In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found
a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.
A partial skeleton of a presumed border crosser, photographed at the Pima County Medical Examiner's office in Tuscon, Arizona, was discovered in 2009 by a horseback rider in the nearby Avra Valley.
«I was... fortunate in discovering
a partial skeleton of... Diplodocus.
The partial skeleton of Ar.
In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned
the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974.
ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,»
the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
An international group of researchers described the animal in August in the journal Biological Sciences, after analyzing
the partial skeletons of six individuals unearthed in Argentina in 2014.
The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two
partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.
Researchers examined several
partial skeletons of Xenicibis xympithecus, an extinct wading bird about the size of a large chicken that lived some 10,000 years ago.
CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two
partial skeletons of a previously unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.
There are six skulls and several hundred
partial skeletons of this new dinosaur at the Kulinda locality.
University of Michigan paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich and his colleagues recovered
partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, from 47 - million - year - old rocks in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
It comes in the form of two
partial skeletons of Australopithecus sediba that were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg, South Africa, by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.
Not exact matches
This involved casting a number
of foot bones known for A. afarensis, including a
partial foot
skeleton, in a shrinkable material, and shrinking them to Lucy's size.
The
skeleton, an adult male aged around 40 at the time
of his death, was shrouded in a rabbit - skin blanket and reed mats and was wearing moccasins; he was found with the cremated or
partial remains
of three other individuals.
And last year, researchers found a
partial skeleton beneath the sloping seafloor that, through DNA analysis, promises to reveal the biological details
of a passenger.
Two
partial skeletons, one
of a male child aged 9 to 13 years and the other
of an adult female, were dug up in the Cradle
of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg by Lee Berger
of the University
of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.
Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction
of the dinosaur, which combined the new
partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds
of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.
In this courtyard, the team found two
partial skeletons, buried between 1200 C.E. and 1300 C.E. in a place
of honor that suggests they were monks.
Researchers unearthed a
partial, nonfossilized
skeleton of what appears to be a 30 - year - old woman in a limestone cave on the island
of Flores, 370 miles east
of Java.
A fossil
partial skull, teeth, and associated
skeleton of a small toothed whale, estimated 2 - 2.5 m long.
Based on analysis
of more than 300 teeth, skull and lower - body measurements, Alba and colleagues assign the
partial skeleton to a new genus and species
of ancient ape, Pliobates cataloniae.
The team scanned Lucy's
partial skeleton, which preserves 40 %
of her bones, when she was touring the United States in 2006.
The new specimen is a
partial skeleton with associated soft tissues and gastroliths, missing the skull and most
of the caudal vertebrae.
The pelvis from a
partial Ardipithecus ramidus
skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence
of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty
of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer
of City University
of New York.
Eventually, natural selection or chance may rid the genome
of damaging insertions, leaving the
partial, inactive LINE - 1
skeletons (or Alu) scattered throughout the genome.
This week in Science, Godefroit, Sinitsa, and their colleagues report the details
of six
partial skulls and hundreds
of skeletons of what they dub Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus (from Kulinda, the specific locality where it was discovered; dromeus, Greek for «runner»; and zabaikalicus, from the Zabaikal krai [region] in which Kulinda valley resides).
There are two
partial skeletons dating to around 1.95 million years ago and they were assigned to a new species
of human — Australopithecus sediba.
The authors state this
partial skeleton has arm - to - leg proportions differing from the forty percent complete AL 288 - 1 («Lucy»)
of this species and the difference is explained by sexual dimorphism (Kadanuumuu is male, Lucy female).
Both
of these areas produced an abundance
of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those
of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one
partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and
partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety
of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).
The discovery
of 15
partial skeletons, composed
of 1,550 distinct specimens, might just be significant enough to change our current understanding
of human evolution.
A couple years later, fragments
of two
partial dinosaur
skeletons were recovered from an eastern Utah quarry and brought to the museum in Norman, Oklahoma.
In the May 30 2013 issue
of Nature, William H Kimbel, Director
of the Institute
of Human Origins at Arizona State University cast considerable doubt on the recent announcement in the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning fossilized
partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sediba).
Morphology
of the Pliocene
partial hominid
skeleton (A.L. 288 - 1) from the Hadar formation, Ethiopia.
Other major finds included Sts 5, a superb fossil skull, and Sts 14, a
partial skeleton which consisted
of much
of a pelvis, femur, and vertebral column and proved convincingly that australopithecines had walked upright.