Sentences with phrase «adult animal fossils»
If the Doushantuo fossils are more like spore sacs than like animal embryos, that would explain why no adult animal fossils have turned up.
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The new fossil is more convincing because it finally shows an adult animal, says Eric Davidson, a developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology and part of the team that reported the fossil last March.
The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in northwestern China suggests to some researchers that pterosaur parents may have cared for their newly hatched young.
The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in northwestern China is «one of the most extraordinary fossil [finds] I've ever seen,» says David Unwin, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the work.