Sentences with phrase «vertebrate palaeontology»

Benton is Professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Bristol.

Rapid developments in synchrotron tomography foresee the visualisation of even larger objects at higher resolutions in the future and will continue to expand the role of computed tomography in vertebrate palaeontology.

Research interests: Dental hard tissue histology, life history evolution, vertebrate palaeontology.

Dr Louys returned from the project's latest expedition to East Timor in August and has presented the findings at the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas.

After a moment's study, Sloan replied: «I won't tell you what this is, but if you take my vertebrate palaeontology course, you will be able to identify it yourself.»

«It was assumed that tetrapods evolved in river deltas and lakes, partly because all previous fossil evidence has been found in these environments,» says Jenny Clack, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK.

Christian, who led the study as part of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness, of layers around the circumference of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the individual belongs to.»

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator & Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have published a paper with colleagues in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found.

Although it is one of the earliest known members this group, its thickened skull dome is surprisingly well - developed for its geological age,» said lead author Evans, ROM curator, vertebrate palaeontology.

Speaking at the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada estimated the fish must have been at least 4 metres long...

«The butterfly - shaped frill, or neck shield, of Mercuriceratops is unlike anything we have seen before,» said co-author Dr. David Evans, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.

David Hone at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, China, and Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, Japan, report that tooth marks on the 70 - million - year - old bone match the pattern and shape of the teeth of Tarbosaurus, an Asian tyrannosaur nearly as big as T. rex (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, DOI: 10.4202 / app.2009.0133).

Not exact matches

In a new report in the journal Palaeontology, Sallan and colleagues argue that the two papers that seemingly settled the Tully monster debate are flawed, failing to definitively classify it as a vertebrate.