Sentences with phrase «about paleontology»

When you head out, take along resources like these printable National Junior Ranger books that teach students about paleontology, constellations, the solar system, and the importance of preservation to make your trip both educational and fun.

Learn about Paleontology and discover the world of the most common dinosaurs through the eyes of a Paleontologist.

I'd never taught at the high - school level, and knew relatively little about the paleontology course that I was creating.

Guaranteed to fan antigovernment sentiments among its audiences, Dinosaur 13 is less about paleontology than it is about prosecutorial overreach, political gamesmanship, dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people accused.

«When you talk about paleontology to people the first thing they think of is dinosaurs,» he said.

The nice thing about paleontology is that you can do most of it through on - the - job training and you don't really need a lot of book learning.

(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.

(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.

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Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

You honestly believe, despite everything we have been taught by cosmology, astronomy, geology, biology, history, paleontology and archeology, that the World began about 6,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a magic talking snake.

Several years later, he decided to call academic experts in paleontology, geology, and zoology to find out about the bones he decided to dig up.

BIBLICAL PALEONTOLOGY Dear Father Editor When looking in the Bible for evidence about how God created the world we tend to limit ourselves to the first chapters of Genesis and thereafter look for spiritual meanings only.

«Creationists may prefer not to think to much about the conspiratorial implications of what they're arguing, but creationism just won't work without the actual existence of such a «fraud so complex and extensive it involved every field from archaeology, paleontology, geology and genetics to biology, chemistry and physics.»

Kent is passionate about ancient sharks and rays, but he could not do that work because UMD's Department of Entomology, where he had his post, did not have a position for cartilaginous fish paleontology.

It is a way to teach the public about yeast, molecular biology, and paleontology.

Schachat and her team combed through fossil information from a public paleontology database and realized there was something special about many of the insect fossils that came after the gap: they had wings.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

«Fossils have richer stories to tell — about the lub - dub of dinosaur life — than we have been willing to listen to,» says Robert T. Bakker, curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Boskops, then, were much talked and written about, by many of the most prominent figures in the fields of paleontology and anthropology.

Scott Anderson, an amber collector in Pennsylvania, described one of the specimens, a blood - filled tick about half a centimeter long, at a paleontology meeting a few years ago.

«The Middle Pleistocene was a long period of about half a million years during which hominin evolution didn't proceed through a slow process of change with just one kind of hominin quietly evolving towards the classic Neandertal,» said lead author Juan - Luis Arsuaga, Professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Yeakel created a timeline based on existing records from paleontology, archaeology, and art, which picks up about where the fossils leave off and zooms in on a much shorter time scale.

At last week's meeting here of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, another team of U.S. - based researchers looked at a slightly later but somewhat less severe warming period, which happened about 53 million years ago.

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That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

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.

«Up until now, the evolution of feathers was mainly considered to be an adaptation related to flight or to warm - bloodedness, seasoned with a few speculations about display capabilities» says the article's first author, Marie - Claire Koschowitz of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

In the Gobi Desert of northern China, Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology accidentally stumbled upon a gigantic one - and - a-half-ton dinosaur while filming a documentary about a previous find.

The Communist government was about to build a new paleontology museum, but the project died along with the regime and its budget.

Horner is the Tom Sawyer of paleontology: He gets people excited about dinosaurs, and then he recruits them to come and work (free!)

Paleontology is a much broader endeavor than worrying about outward appearances.

Being a historian, he didn't know about geology and paleontology and astronomy, so he got colleagues to come in and give guest lectures.

Still, Smith remains modest about his success: «Paleontology is just a lot of guess - work and a lot of blind luck.

«Based on this premise, the distribution of sizes within a mammal community can offer us valuable information about its climatic context,» explains Iris Menéndez, a researcher at the Department of Paleontology of the UCM and the Institute of Geosciences (UCM and CSIC).

I mean, I would say the whole last 30 years have been remarkable times because so many new techniques have come online: dating, CT studies, the synchrotron, allowing us to look [at] individual growth lines in Neandertal teeth,... the ability to date things with much greater precision, and then DNA — and, you know, I was in Svante Pääbo's press conference in London in 1997 when [he] announced the first mitochondrial DNA and I went on record saying it was the equivalent in paleontology if landing something or landing on Mars and who could have imagined 10 years later we talk about the whole genome; it's incredible.

Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long — bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today.

Back in December 2007, archaeologist Zhan - Yang Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing was wrapping up his field season in the town of Lingjing, near the city of Xuchang in the Henan province in China (about 4000 kilometers from the Denisova Cave), when he spotted some beautiful quartz stone tools eroding out of the sediments.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

In part 3 of this special Darwin Day podcast, the Reverend Thomas Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches and author of the book Curious Bones: Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology, talks about Anning and how religion informed Darwin and the scientists who led to him.

In this Radio Ecoshock interview she says: «I learned about this hypothesis when I attended a paleontology conference at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs North Dakota.»

See more fossils in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection or learn more about the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection study grant.

For information about marsupials, go to www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/marsupial/marsupial.html (Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley).

Find information about seminars, events and paleontology course offerings at UW.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

«Having seen the «Tufts - Love Rex» during its excavation I can attest to the fact that it is definitely one of the most significant specimens yet found, and because of its size, is sure to yield important information about the growth and possible eating habits of these magnificent animals,» said Jack Horner, former curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and current Burke Museum research associate, in a statement.

According to the paper published in University of Michigan's Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the creature is about 125 million years old, which dates it back to the early Cretaceous period.

For example, Cancers are as cozy In this educational animated movie about Science learn about fossils, isotopes, nitrogen, and paleontology.

I learned more about my students in those three weeks than during that entire first semester of my paleontology class.

Mary Anning, her subject in Remarkable Creatures, is a rock star to the natural history museum set, a feminist hero dangled before little girls to get them excited about science and to prove that paleontology is not just for boys... Chevalier takes a sensational figure (and Mary Anning was a real celebrity in her own day) and focuses on the quiet, unsensational part of the story.

Apart from this, insufficient knowledge about the concerned topic of paleontology can prove to be a setback for the students who are writing their paperwork.