Sentences with phrase «analyze early fossils»
A new study comparing the forces acting on fins of mudskipper fish and on the forelimbs of tiger salamanders can now be used to analyze early fossils that spanned the water - to - land transition in tetrapod evolution, and further understand their capability to move on land.
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ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.
Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution, reached a similar conclusion after analyzing earlier gray whale fossils from the Pleistocene.
The fossils analyzed in the new study are among the earliest of a broad group of creatures called dinosauromorphs.
The researchers, from North Carolina State (NC State) University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, both in Raleigh, say the newly analyzed fossil — parts of a skull, spine, and upper forelimb found in central North Carolina — represents one of the earliest examples of crocodylomorphs, a group of crocodilelike animals who ruled Earth in the Late Triassic.
Earlier academic studies analyzed fossil fuel substitution, largely between natural gas and petroleum, during the period of the 1980s and 1990s.