Sentences with phrase «body fossil evidence»

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Ardipithecus ramidus at 4.4 million years ago provides the first substantial body of fossil evidence that temporally and anatomically extends our knowledge of what the last common ancestor we shared with chimpanzees was like, and therefore allows a test of such presumptions.

This 11.6 - million - year - old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its discoverers, represents the first evidence that present - day African apes descended from a relatively small, somewhat gibbonlike common ancestor — not large - bodied African primates as previously thought, scientists report in the Oct. 30 Science.

The earliest fossil evidence of animals dates from the Vendian Period (650 to 544 million years ago), with coelenterate - type animals that left traces of their soft bodies in shallow - water sediments.

A newly discovered fossil offers scientists with strong evidence to prove that some dinosaurs did have feathers on their bodies.

A growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the world's climate is warming, primarily as a result of unfettered burning of fossil fuels and the razing of tropical forests.

«There is a large body of evidence that because of indirect land use change (ILUC), palm oil biodiesel is worse for the climate than the fossil fuel it replaces — perhaps several times worse,» the report concludes.

Scientists around the world have now amassed a virtually unassailable body of evidence to support the conclusion that a rapid warming of our planet - caused principally by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning - is under way.»

Climate change and global warming refer to the body of scientific evidence showing that the earth's environment is warming due to human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

Researchers have already identified evidence of glacier retreat in the West Antarctic and warned that bodies of ice massive enough together to raise global sea levels by three metres could — thanks to global warming as a consequence of fossil fuel combustion — be increasingly unstable.

The biggest news there may be about the growing body of evidence surrounding Motorola's plans for a new Moto 360, but we've also heard about new hardware from other manufacturers, including the first Android Wear model from Fossil, and a possible high - res option from LG.