Sentences with phrase «ancient animals determined»
A research published this week in the journal Nature reported that sexual selection in ancient animals determined which species will survive or go extinct.
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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.
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.
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.
Carbon dating is a technique scientists used to determine the age of ancient organic materials, such as animal fossils.
We can determine the past climate of the Earth by mapping the distribution of ancient coals, desert deposits, tropical soils, salt deposits, glacial material, as well as the distribution of plants and animals that are sensitive to climate, such as alligators, palm trees & mangrove swamps.