Sentences with phrase «about this fossil suggest»

The article concludes that «nothing about this fossil suggest it is anything other than an extinct, lemur - like creature» and that «the remarkable preservation is a hallmark of rapid burial... consistent with a catastrophic flood.»

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Fossils of the other new species, found in rocks of a similar age a few dozen kilometers away, suggest that creature — dubbed Vilevolodon, roughly from the Latin for «toothed glider» — was about as large as a midsized mouse.

Molecular dating suggests that glyptodonts diverged no earlier than about 35 million years ago, the researchers report, in good agreement with their known fossil record.

The fossil record and modern genetic analysis suggest that humans and all other living species are descended from bacteria - like microbes that first appeared about 4 billion years ago.

The fossil also «has all the hallmarks of current - day sea spiders,» Siveter says, suggesting that sea spiders emerged as a distinct group about 450 million years ago.

Fossils suggest that H. erectus may have survived in Asia up until about 30,000 years ago, overlapping with modern humans by about 15,000 years.

In doing so, she was wading into a debate about eastern box turtle variation that has lasted more than 80 years, with some scientists suggesting that fossil and modern box turtles are all the same species, while others — pointing to a distinction in size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct species.

The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia suggest.

What's interesting is that they went back in the frozen fossil record, I was telling [you] about, they found exactly where this change happened, and it appeared that the citrate eaters started becoming more common and then rare and then more common again and then they took off, which suggests that there are a lot of mutations that took place to make this happen.

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

Scientists have unearthed a new bird species from fossils in the Canadian Arctic dating back about 90 million years, making them the oldest records of avian species found so far north and suggesting an intense warming event occurred during the late Cretaceous period.

The fossil record suggests complex multicellular life emerged about 600 million years ago in a relatively short period termed the «Cambrian explosion,» during which most major animal phyla appeared.

Two of the study authors wrote about their findings for The Conversation: «Our fossil find suggests humans spread to Asia way before they got to Europe.»

None of which has anything to do with poor people in rural Africa that Gavin wrote about — people who use little or no fossil fuels, and who would therefore not pay any carbon taxes, even if someone were to impose such taxes in rural Africa, which no one has suggested doing.

However, these newfound fossils suggest that the amphibians of today evolved from a common ancestor about 315 million years ago.

And a concern of removing fossil fuel subsidies — particularly in the current political climate of worries about oil imports — is that this can work against so - called «energy security» (some have therefore suggested the addition of an «oil import fee»).

The line about not giving up fossil fuels tomorrow is rhetorically appealing because it makes the speaker seem like a level - headed pragmatist and suggests that anyone who disagrees is out of touch with reality.

However, there remains uncertainty in the rate of sea ice loss, with the models that most accurately project historical sea ice trends currently suggesting nearly ice - free conditions sometime between 2021 and 2043 (median 2035).12 Uncertainty across all models stems from a combination of large differences in projections among different climate models, natural climate variability, and uncertainty about future rates of fossil fuel emissions.

Epstein asks if everything we know about fossil fuels could be wrong, and suggests readers should «look at the big picture of fossil fuels»:

If you're suggesting something about the recent changes is a) unprecedented in earth's history, and / or b) attributable mostly to humans burning fossil fuels, then you've got a ways to go before the (real) science is «in» or «settled».

* The video essentially suggests denial about catastrophic man - caused global warming is bankrolled and orchestrated by fossil fuel industry interests.

In addition to concealing the known risks, Exxon and Suncor... directed, participated in, and benefited from efforts to misleadingly cast doubt about the causes and consequences of climate change, including: (1) making affirmative and misleading statements suggesting that continued and unabated fossil fuel use was safe (in spite of internal knowledge to the contrary); and (2) attacking climate science and scientists that tried to report truthfully about the dangers of climate change.

The first animals to have complex skeletons existed about 550 million years ago, fossils of a tiny marine creature unearthed in Namibia suggest.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

If the tariff I'm suggesting helps to get some thinking going about fossil fuel addiction, then it may be useful in that manner as well and not just in making our farmers whole.

When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute, he suggested it was important that we all «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art, dance.»

I would suggest that we need to question humans motives on every level about ACC as there are lots of methods of reducing fossil fuels impact on the earth systems but presently there are few ways to combat it.

When we interviewed Tim Toben, of Greenbridge Developments, and asked him what every TreeHugger could do to make a better, greener world, he suggested that people should «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art, dance.

When we interviewed Tim Toben, of Greenbridge Developments, and asked him what every TreeHugger could do to make a better, greener world, he suggested that people should «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to

It adds up to about $ 6 trillion worth of fossil fuels, suggesting a revolutionary shake - up of the global financial and energy economies.

Webb wrote to Davey a few days later: «[Newspaper] articles reported you backing moves that would encourage investors to think about moving their money out of «risky» fossil fuel assets, suggesting global emissions limits could make hydrocarbon reserves unburnable, therefore stranding assets and rendering them worthless.»