Sentences with phrase «ancient animals»

The remains of ancient animal fossils have been found and dated.

I have always been fascinated by biology in general, but more specifically ancient animals and plants.

However, bones and teeth of ancient animals similar to elephants have been discovered at the site.

According to the scientific theory of evolution, apes and people have a common ancestor — one ancient animal from which both species evolved.

During the Highlights of Grand Cayman Accessible Driving Tour you'll visit the Cayman Turtle Farm where you'll learn about the most ancient animals in the world.

You'll visit the Cayman Turtle Farm where you'll learn about the most ancient animals in the world.

Aside from being some of the most ancient animals on Earth, these marine invertebrates maintain their shape and stiffness with a matrix of glass.

They also discovered several new dinosaur trackways, which are fossilized impressions left by ancient animals walking through mud that eventually became rock.

© Drawing by Joseph Smit, from «Extinct Monsters; a Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life»

Martin Lockley, a paleontologist at the University of Colorado Denver who studies ancient animal tracks, points to alternative explanations.

The analysis also revealed a striking contrast between the evolution of venom in ancient animal groups as compared to evolutionarily «young» animals.

Because the protein sequence is directly related to the DNA code, the team says that comparing protein sequences — like comparing DNA sequences — is an approach that can be used to determine degrees of relatedness between species and to decipher how ancient animals evolved.

We are also very interested in reconstructing what ancient animals were like when they were alive, and these kinds of studies require huge collections.

Scientists studied evolutionarily ancient animal models, such as sand dollars, skates, dogfish sharks and sea urchins, to gain insights into human physiology.

We can then reconstruct the diets of ancient animals who have long been extinct.

«As the poles are thought to harbor ecosystems like those from millions of years ago, our data suggest that more ancient animals were slow - growing,» Moss says.

They are also the most efficient swimmers ever studied, among the most ancient animals surviving on Earth today and some of the most toxic sea creatures (SN: 9/6/14, p. 16).

In order to determine what the root of their family tree looked like, biologists need reliable dating information for the most ancient animal subgroups — the sponges, cnidarians, comb jellies and placozoans.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

Moreover, venom research has mostly neglected ancient animal groups in favor of focusing on venomous snakes and cone snails, which are both «young» animal groups that originated only recently in evolutionary timescales, approximately 50 million years ago.

«This particular sponge species, which is among the most ancient animals inhabiting the earth today, is home to a very diverse, very crowded number of microorganisms,» said Prof. Micha Ilan of the Department of Zoology at TAU's Faculty of Life Sciences, who led the study.

Egyptologists have turned to modern imaging methods to study ancient animal mummies.

Not only were the landmasses merged into the supercontinent of Pangaea, but the land was home to ancient animals unlike anything alive today.

Regardless of how the Doushantuo fossils end up being classified, Donoghue's observation about their similarity to mesomycetozoeans may tell a lot about ancient animal evolution.

But the amount of time it took for ancient animals to become buried in asphalt after enduring their gruesome deaths has remained a mystery.

As well as helping to explain how bioluminescence evolved, their finding tells a story of the journey of ancient animals deeper into the oceans.

Hannibal's famous Alps crossing revealed by ancient animal poop — Grennan Milliken — PopSci — April 2016

A research published this week in the journal Nature reported that sexual selection in ancient animals determined which species will survive or go extinct.

Our beautiful Japanese Pavilion — with its style and air of something ancient, yet nevertheless modern — houses three - thousand - year - old vessels, jars, Buddhas, ancient animal guards, fierce Samurai armor, and deadly sharp Samurai swords...

The goal of the project was to «minimize unwanted catches in commercial fishing,» the researchers told SIC Noticisas TV, as the BBC noted, but the team unknowingly unearthed one of the rarest and most ancient animals on the planet.

Because skates are an evolutionarily ancient animal, that means the neurons essential for walking originated in species that separated from other four - legged vertebrates, or tetrapods, about 420 million years ago.

Unexpectedly, despite their long evolutionary histories, ancient animal groups were found to have only accumulated low variation in their toxins.

The age of the surrounding rock is what indicates just how ancient these animals were, but while the team is quick to call their find the «oldest mammals related to mankind,» the title is up for contention.

Fossils of two more ancient animals were found under Crenshaw Boulevard.

«This discovery would not have been possible a decade ago — CT scanning has revolutionized how we can study ancient animals.

Caitlin Colleary, a doctoral student of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, says the original color patterns of ancient animals can be determined through fossils.

Green Sea Turtles are some of the most majestic and ancient animals in the world and at the Farm you will even find a few weighing in at more than 500 pounds!

Juliet Eilperin explores the history of shark and human interactions in her book Demon Fish: Travels Through The Hidden World of Sharks, and delves into why we have this conflicted and destructive relationship with one of the most ancient animals on the planet — including the sources of our fear, the great scam that is shark fin soup, and how they're worth more to the economy alive than dead.

Now we can confidently fill in some of the original color patterns of these ancient animals.»

There's time to consider whether bringing back ancient animals might cause them to suffer, release dormant diseases or harm today's already struggling species and ecosystems.

The «Tully monster,» an ancient animal that had long defied classification, was in fact a vertebrate, two groups of scientists claimed.

Ancient animals, however, might give us an insight into how modern animals might fare with our predicted climate change.

Although the era Secord and his colleagues studied experienced a similar increase in temperatures (five degrees Celsius or more) as is predicted for us for the near future (four degrees C), he points out the ancient animals had tens of thousands of years to adapt to changing temperatures — rather than just centuries.

Foraminifers typically encase themselves in shells made from sediments on the seafloor, but a recent study found [pdf] 65 - million - year - old specimens with shells of small diamonds, which the ancient animals probably gathered from debris created by the deadly meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs.

In addition to finding the human footprints, the researchers also found tracks of ancient animals, from birds to lions, that provide a «snapshot in time of what animals were on the landscape,» says paleoanthropologist and co-author John Harris of Rutgers University, New Brunswick.