Sentences with phrase «ancient teeth»

Researchers have worked diligently to extract information from ancient teeth.

Researchers found a way to test ancient teeth for clues about when humans cut nursing short.

As soon as spelunkers led by Pedro Boshoff, a former student of Berger's, found a handful of ancient teeth and a jaw deep in the cave's Dinaledi Chamber in September 2013, it was clear that «something bizarre was going on,» Berger says.

An introduction to Deep Time, the Geological Timescale and dating the Earth's past Stone Age man ate mushrooms as part of their diet, a study on ancient tooth plaque has revealed.

TWO ancient teeth found in an Indonesian cave hint that our species had arrived there as early as 73,000 years ago — and may have had to deal with the biggest supervolcano eruption of the last few million years.

These studies of present - day bacterial diversity are valuable, but to tell the whole story of the human microbiome's evolution, researchers must turn to fossilized feces, or coprolites, and tartar caked onto ancient teeth.

A rich history of life on earth lies out of sight — in 100 million - year - old nuggets of amber, in potato - shaped fossil eggs, and in mundane - looking ancient teeth.

«News Brief: Ancient teeth point to Neandertal relatives.»

The ability to trace the pace of an individual's growth from structures preserved within ancient teeth was the subject of a recent Becoming Human podcast, a link to which is found on this page, below, under the title «Fossil Teeth Speak.»

Most genetics research on ancient teeth has focused on the inner tooth tissue, dentine, but Adler's team found that cementum, the coating of the root, was a richer source of DNA.

The ancient teeth, which feature one of the largest canines of any ancient Homo find, probably come from a member of Homo habilis,

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

Brian Kemp, a molecular anthropologist at Washington State University who led the study, found that out of 3,500 Native Americans examined from a genetic database, 1.5 percent showed the same genetic pattern in their mitochondrial DNA as that found in the ancient tooth.

A new analysis of an ancient tooth suggests that the marsupial went on long, seasonal migrations.

Using ordinary dental picks, Eerkens and his team at UC Davis extracted the dental plaque from the ancient teeth and then sent it to Tushingham and Gang's labs at WSU for analysis.

Ancient teeth were found from the sediments of a river near Eppelsheim, Germany.

A student recently uncovered two ancient teeth in England that belong to rat - like creatures that lived 145 million years ago.

Listen to the Nature Podcast in which study author María Martinón - Torres explains how the ancient teeth challenge ideas of early human migration here.