Sentences with phrase «ancient skulls from»

Or at least, their lineage did, according to Spanish paleoanthropologists who analyzed 17 ancient skulls from a deep bone pit in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain.

An analysis of an ancient skull from China suggests it is eerily similar to the earliest known fossils of our species — found in Morocco, some 10,000 kilometres to the west.

Not exact matches

Analysis of physical characteristics in three - dimensionally preserved Fukangichthys skulls, as well as an examination of DNA sequences from 12 genes, revealed that scanilepiforms are actually ancient cousins of polypterids.

The researchers looked for evidence of ancient altercations by examining 350 adult Neolithic skulls from British burial sites and analyzing the microstructure of any fractures they found.

Insights are also expected from back, forearm and finger fossils of two or three ancient apes, possibly also from N. alesi, found near the skull site in 2015.

Three - dimensional reconstructions of the skulls of the Goyet dog and another Ice Age dog show that the animals» snouts didn't angle from the skull the way modern dogs» do, and the ancient versions didn't have some other features of modern dogs (SN Online: 2/5/15).

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

But «Itchy» was no reptile: The animal, known from two partial skulls and described in July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, was actually an ancient mammal relative.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

The short snout and wide braincase of a canid skull (top) found in Belgium's Goyet Cave, in comparison with two ancient wolves found in nearby caves (middle, bottom), led scientists to claim the Goyet bones are from a 36,000 - year - old dog.

MIXED ANCESTRY Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers to determine that farmers and foragers interbred in three different regions from 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago.

The ancient cow's skull opening, shaped almost in a square and framed by scrape marks, resembles two instances of human skull surgery from around the same time in France, say biological anthropologists Fernando Ramirez Rozzi of CNRS in Montrouge, France, and Alain Froment of IRD - Museum of Man in Paris.

«For example, when the skull has been shattered, because I am used to putting ancient bones together, I can use what I have learned from ancient materials.

But the new adult skull shows that the hominins combined this ancient feature with a small, lightly built «modern» face — one that the researchers say is virtually indistinguishable from H. sapiens.

But the new adult skull combines this ancient feature with a small, lightly built «modern» face — one the team says is indistinguishable from our own (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature22335.)

The researchers analyzed a skull of Panderichthys — an ancient fish that evolved at about the same time as tetrapods (early four - legged land - dwellers) from a common ancestor.

Ancient skulls found in Spain reveal how the earliest Neanderthals differed from their ancestors, suggesting their jaws changed shape to grip objects

Now, the most detailed analysis yet of ancient American skulls concludes that there were two distinct waves of colonizers from Asia, suggesting that another group got here first.

In this book, Dean Falk explains how the study of those ancient brains — or at least, the impressions they left in the skulls they occupied — may help to provide an answer to one of the biggest questions: where did we come from?

Instead, they used data from hundreds of modern women from around the world to find an average approximation of skull size, skin tone and other features, then combined that information with the ancient woman's own skull measurements to make a likeness.

On July 17, 1959, British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a skull from an ancient hominid species, Paranthropus boisei, or «southern ape.»

The first results suggested that the skull and jaw material, unlike the fossil animal bones from the site, were not very ancient, which made it seem even more puzzling.

Green Lantern opening voice - over informs us, in a massive data dump of exposition, that the Guardians, ancient keepers of the universal order who resemble the large - skulled aliens from the pilot episode of Star Trek, have created a «galactic community of peacekeepers.»

Enjoy a peaceful canoe trip into the amazing Barton Creek Cave where you will witness beautiful crystal cave formations, skulls, bones and pottery relics from ancient Mayans.