Sentences with phrase «vertebrate paleontologists»

The AP3 is directed by vertebrate paleontologists from Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Ohio University, The University of Texas at Austin, and the American Museum of Natural History.

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.

Meanwhile, the movement does suffer from a recruiting problem: Most of its proponents are vertebrate paleontologists, a field particularly bedeviled by the old Linnaean system.

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

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

«Living herd animals do occasionally turn carnivore to fulfill a particular nutritional need,» says vertebrate paleontologist Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.

D. horneri's facial bones were lumpy and coarse, like «mud that people have walked through a dozen times,» says study coauthor Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis..

«Since its discovery, Chilesaurus has been an enigmatic dinosaur,» says David Evans, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the discovery of the dinosaur or the new paper.

Indeed, vertebrate paleontologist Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires, who reported the dinosaur's discovery, says he and his co-authors weren't initially sure how to classify the 150 - million - year - old Chilesaurus.

It's certainly possible that Chilesaurus is something other than a theropod, «but the analysis they use to test this is problematic,» says Martin Ezcurra, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Argentine Natural Science Museum who was an author on the original Chilesaurus paper.

The team's findings «are another good example of evolution being a predictive science,» says Thomas Holtz, Jr., a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Victoria Arbour, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the research, says that the study «reasonably seals the deal» on the long - standing mystery.

Last week at the annual SVP meeting here, vertebrate paleontologist Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and colleagues presented their own observations of the specimen, rebutting Martill's paper point by point to a standing - room - only crowd.

The study is «a very welcome and very clever addition to the really limited information we have on dinosaur color and coloration patterns,» says Anne Schulp, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, who wasn't involved in the research.

The new findings «are marvelous, so cool,» says Anne Schulp, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, who wasn't involved in the research.

But in March 2017, Ph.D. student Matthew Baron and vertebrate paleontologist David Norman of the University of Cambridge, along with paleobiologist Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London, proposed upending that long - standing arrangement.

Some 40 percent of other mammals in the area seem to have experienced similar shrinking and subsequent growth, notes co-author Ross Secord, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.

That pair of teeth, like the incisors of modern - day rabbits, never stopped growing, says Gilbert Price, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

The team's findings are «pretty convincing to me,» says Anthony Stuart, a vertebrate paleontologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

James Mead, a vertebrate paleontologist with East Tennessee State University, said more research into the evolutionary history of native plants and animals on Abaco is needed as well as conservation programs based on paleontological research that aims to restore these species.

Such an interpretation requires an abundance of caution, says D. Charles Deeming, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Lincoln in England not involved in the study.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square.

The new findings «show that baby dinos didn't have to be tiny versions of the adult,» says Thomas Holtz, Jr., a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

«It would be nice if we found more,» the vertebrate paleontologist, now at Virginia Tech, remembers thinking.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Finding fossilized eggs containing 3 - D embryos opens a new window into pterosaur development, says coauthor Alexander Kellner, a vertebrate paleontologist at Museu Nacional / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

«This is wholly unexpected,» says Stephen Brusatte, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, who wasn't involved in the study.

«These fossils allow us to flesh out the community and add to our understanding of the community's composition and how it differed from other places in the world,» says Donald Brinkman, vertebrate paleontologist and director of preservation and research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.

Most of the remains include only bits of bone and are from individuals of various sizes, says Hans - Dieter Sues, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C..

Zhe - Xi Luo, a vertebrate paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, adds: «We now have a finer understanding about exactly where and when these features started to appear.

That helped give sauropod spines the strength they needed to withstand their owners» titanic weights, Fronimos and his co-author, Jeffrey Wilson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Michigan, report this month in Ameghiniana.

The findings are «a very important contribution in addressing who turtles are related to, as well as the evolutionary origin of the turtle shell,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who was not involved with the study.

The two distinctive holes on the side of the head behind each eye of Pappochelys provide vital clues to the evolutionary heritage of turtles, says Torsten Scheyer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland who was not involved in the work.

Birds» and bats» wings could be called exaptations of arms; however, the structural changes that followed can not be called adaptations because «you are talking about a historical incident; it's not something you can test,» said Mark Norell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who studied with Vrba.

«This is one of the most comprehensive studies that attempts to date when these evolutionary divergences happened,» says Luis Chiappe, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California, who wasn't involved in the new research.

«These are the vital distinctions between mammals and nonmammalian vertebrates, but it has been a challenge for scientists to trace the origins of these features in the fossil record,» says Zhe - Xi Luo, a vertebrate paleontologist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

The oily shale that entombs those fossils was laid down as lake sediments about 47 million years ago, says Walter Joyce, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

The newly described mandible is an important find, says Nicholas Pyenson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.. Although today's whales, dolphins, and porpoises have a variety of feeding styles, it's clear that the ancestors of all whales were suction feeders, he notes.

Bloch, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, knew he had something that would rewrite the (pre) history books.

P. sandersi's body plan was well adapted to long - range flight, says Michael Habib, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Ichthyosaurs (which in Greek means «fish lizards») lived from about 248 million years ago to about 95 million years ago, says Da - Yong Jiang, a vertebrate paleontologist at Peking University in Beijing.

C. lenticarpus «is the closest thing we have to a terrestrial ancestor» of ichthyosaurs, says Valentin Fischer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, who wasn't connected to the research.

It was discovered 740 kilometers inland at an elevation of 620 meters in modern Kenya's harsh desert region, said vertebrate paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

These adaptations may have played an important role in the later success of modern mammals once the dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago, says Richard Cifelli, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, who was not involved with the work.

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.

afarensis being dragged down by a giant otter,» says vertebrate paleontologist Lars Werdelin at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.

He's a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

A vertebrate paleontologist, he studies the fossils of creatures with bones.

AP3 Co-Principal Investigator Joe Sertich is a vertebrate paleontologist who looks at the effects of global changes, such as climate and shifting continents, on the evolution of dinosaurs and crocodilians.