Sentences with phrase «ancient relative»

The site contains abundant fossils, diverse assemblages of Triassic animals including relatives of crocodylians, giant - headed amphibians and ancient relatives of modern mammals called cynodonts.

In contrast, the first demonstrably modern bandicoots appeared less than 5 million years ago, while their most ancient relatives seemingly inhabited rainforests some 20 million years ago.

Dinosaurs arrived hot on the tails of their more ancient relatives, reptiles called dinosauromorphs, a new study shows.

Modifications of Ubx, the investigators determined, would have allowed the many - limbed, crustacean - like ancient relatives of Artemia to lose their rear limbs, giving rise to the six - legged insects.

Researchers are finally getting to know one of our most mysterious ancient relatives, thanks to DNA from a 110,000 - year - old tooth.

Homo naledi, our most recently discovered ancient relative, might have lived alongside Homo sapiens and carries a striking similarity to modern humans.

As small omnivores and herbivores, Captorhinus and its relatives had to scrounge for food while avoiding being preyed upon by large meat - eating amphibians and ancient relatives of mammals.

It seems that our ancestors met, leaving a small genetic trace of these ancient relatives in our DNA.

Spelt (Triticum spelta) is an ancient relative of wheat (Triticum aestivum).

Savor the whole grain goodness of spelt, an ancient relative of durum wheat that originated in the Near East over 8,000 years ago.

Khorasan wheat is a thousand years old grain that is believed to be the ancient relative of modern durum wheat.

More than 100 species of chaetognaths are alive today, but evidence of their ancient relatives is spotty.

GREAT APE In Disney's new The Jungle Book, King Louie is a Gigantopithecus, an ancient relative of orangutans.

Fossils from our ancient relatives have been turning up at an increasing rate, and rumours are rife that the next new species is about to drop

THE odd leg bones and prominent brow ridges of a fossil hominid found in Belgium in 1830 clearly belong to an ancient relative of Homo sapiens.

A team examined how our ancient relatives, who were most likely covered with a thick pelt of hair, would fare while walking briskly in a sizzling place like the African savanna.

The fossil find, an ancient relative of today's bleeding hearts, poses a new puzzle in the study of plant evolution: did Earth's dominant group of flowering plants evolve along with its distinctive pollen?

While this mirrors the behavior of modern snails, no one knew their ancient relatives used the same strategy — until Felton came along.

Walking upright is one of the defining features of the human lineage, and as feet are the only structure that make contact with the ground in bipeds, they can tell us a lot about our ancient relatives» way of moving.

Don McCulloch of the federal police in South Australia reports that the 1 - tonne chunk of quartzite — an impression of an ancient relative of jellyfish — has been traced to a museum near Tokyo.

Now, researchers say they've come up with RNA probes that filter out human DNA quickly and cheaply, meaning we can learn a lot more about our ancient relatives.

According to a new study, the ancient relative of modern - day otters may have been a dominant predator.

An ancient relative of wheat, spelt originated in the Middle East and gained widespread popularity in Europe as far back as 750 - 15 B.C..

Kamut ® is also an ancient relative of modern wheat, durum wheat to be exact.

Khorasan wheat is a thousand years old grain that is believed to be the ancient relative of modern durum wheat.