Sentences with phrase «as a new species»

The Leakey team later designated the remains as a new species that they called Homo habilis, meaning the handy man.

Looking more like a creature out of a Steven Spielberg movie than one of our closer primate relatives, Callithrix saterei made its official debut as a new species of marmoset in 1996.

When testing was complete, the first hunch of the Malaysian team proved right: «Sure enough, results from Rafe's genetic analysis showed that the frog from Peninsular Malaysia was genetically too distant from the Siberut Island Frog to be considered the same species, so we decided to describe it as a new species.»

«Even so, it took almost two million years before the deep sea food supply was fully restored as new species evolved to occupy ecological niches vacated by extinct forms.»

Museum palaeontologist Dr. Jordan Mallon completed the scientific analysis that pinned down the dinosaur as a new species.

On further inspection, the researchers classified the stowaway as a new species of Iflavirus, a type of RNA virus related to the polio virus.

For three of the species, «we immediately identified them as new species,» said Glaw, a veteran herpetologist and curator at the Museum of Natural History in Munich.

Apart from the horns and frill bones that helped define Judith as a new species, close examination of some of its other bones reveal a story of a life lived with pain.

Researchers identified H. yaku as a new species using field observations, recordings of its distinct call...

This would be similar to what was done in the 19th Century when any new fossil find, from a new location or horizon, was named as a new species if it differed slightly from previously known specimens.

Nearly 60 years later, those butterflies are finally being recognized as a new species by his colleague Andrew Warren, who named the butterfly Cyllopsis tomemmeli to honor Emmel, now 76 and an internationally recognized Lepidoptera expert at the University of Florida.

Identified as a new species, it has been named Chupkaornis keraorum — Chupka is the Ainu word used by indigenous people from Hokkaido for «eastern,» and keraorum is named after Masatoshi and Yasuji Kera, who discovered the specimen.

This specimen is different to all other known examples of Protoichthyosaurus in the skull and humerus and it has been identified as a new species, which the team have called Protoichthyosaurus applebyi, in honour of Robert Appleby.

We were lucky to have a critical piece of the skull that allowed us to distinguish Albertaventaor as a new species.»

Cephaloleichnites strongi, as the new species has been dubbed, represents the earliest known rolled - leaf beetle species, hundreds of which still exist today.

They dubbed the remains LB1 and controversially identified it as a new species, Homo floresiensis, in 2004.

The rare and unusual spiny fish, recognised as a new species in 2015, was previously only known from four museum specimens

To ensure the validity of the frog as a new species, Mr Seshadri and his team members studied the genes, body structure, colouration and vocalisations of four individual frogs.

Paul contacted a number of thyasirid bivalve specialists around the world and all gave it a thumbs up as a new species.

Their paper naming the amphibian as a new species of the genus Eleutherodactylus appears this month in the journal Copeia.

Researchers identified H. yaku as a new species using field observations, recordings of its distinct call and DNA analyses of museum and university specimens.

The combination of a relatively plain surface on the egg itself (no pores, for instance) plus a filament crown helps distinguish this water bear as a new species, now named Macrobiotus shonaicus, he and colleagues report February 28 in PLOS ONE.

Genetic analysis confirmed the cobra - preta as a new species, Naja peroescobari (Zootaxa, doi.org/cdrz).

Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid.

That, along with unique morphological features, led the scientists to begin describing the larva as a new species despite the absence of adults.

A total of 90 species are recognized from the Indo - Malayan and Palearctic realms of Asia, 71 of which are described here as new species.

Bohs» study identifying S. cordicitum as a new species was published today in the Aug. 1 issue of the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.

Over a few thousand years, this process gave rise to a complex food web in Lake Victoria, as the new species, in turn, influenced their environment.

An accidental fossil find in Alberta has finally been identified as a new species of dinosaur.

But due to the great geographic distance, it was thought this had to be a different species, which is why the assumed Seychelles turtles were also described as a new species in 1906.»

[9] It occurs in the coastal scrub of the island and was described to science as a new species in 1997.

It was described to science as a new species in 1997.

Counts continue to go up as new species are discovered almost weekly.

A French and Indonesian research team named the Sulawesi coelacanth as a new species (Pouyand, L., et al. 1999 «A new species of coelacanth.»

But if we ever do grow up as a new species there is an awful lot of good achievements that we could carry forth into a better world — perhaps a hundred, thousand years from now.

Dusted in yellow, with bright yellow eye patches and flaming crimson - tipped wings, the Bugun Liocichla, sets another first which TreeHuggers will appreciate: the bird was confirmed as a new species without sacrificing (yes, that is the scientific term for killing) the rare find.The bird was discovered in May by Ramana Athreya, but news of the bird was released only recently after confirmation that it is, indeed, a new species.

«With today's modern technology, we could gather all the information we needed to confirm it as a new species.

The formal paper introducing the bird as a new species appears in the Indian Birds periodical.

That was one of five times during the evening that Faraday Future executives referred to their car as a new species.

Not exact matches

He praised the announcement as «an ambitious and exciting new plan that will alter our destiny as a species.»

It's also working in Beijing on new technology in genome editing; unlike GMO technology, it doesn't involve inserting a gene from another species, such as a bacterium, into a plant.

Because, as Belmonte rightly explains, the new «precisely targeted» tools can help us «study species evolution, biology and disease, and may lead ultimately to the ability to grow human organs for transplant.»

For decades, our future in Space has captivated the imagination of millions and inspired many to dream of exploring strange new worlds and securing humanity's future as a multi-planetary species.

VICTORIA — B.C. New Democrats introduced legislation to ensure British Columbia is protected from the devastation invasive species such as Zebra and Quagga mussels have brought to communities across North America.

This basis of morphogenesis is dismissed by Meyer due to his fixation on novel genes and new protein folds as prerequisite of emergence of new species.

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

The term macroevolution, by contrast, refers to the origin of new species and divisions of the taxonomic hierarchy above the species level, and also to the origin of complex adaptations, such as the vertebrate eye.

I think scientist see evidence from Micro greatest example the Darwin's birds beaks and claim it as macro which would be that birds could eventually create a new species.

You seem to think that as long as it is still a bird, it hasn't become a new species.

There is still much for us to discover and I think that propels us as a species to continue uncovering new truths every day.