Sentences with phrase «bones excavated»

This would also explain the unusual lack of typical pond fossils at the site, as well as the near lack of gnaw marks on bones and calcite and barite concretions found on bones excavated from the quarry.

After sorting through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

DNA analysis confirms that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, are the remains of the vilified English king, Richard III

Of the more than 130,000 bones excavated between 2005 and 2013, only 5 percent could be identified as a specific animal.

«A certain amount of confusion» surrounds the original locations of bones excavated at Birka and then bagged for storage, including those of the proposed woman warrior, Jesch adds.

GENE BANK Scientists extracted the oldest known hominid DNA from this 400,000 - year - old leg bone excavated in a Spanish cave.

Scientists were able to analyse DNA from a tooth and from a finger bone excavated in the Denisova cave in southern Siberia.

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In 1977, Washington State University archaeologists excavated a spear tip and mastodon rib bone (an extinct species related to elephants) near Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

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The newly trained experts formed the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and worked with Snow and Kirschner to excavate mass and individual graves and recover bones recently exhumed.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

The program describes how studies of Naia's bones (SN: 6/14/14, p. 6) and of genes from an 11,500 - year - old infant recently excavated in Alaska have generated fresh insights into how people populated the Americas.

By the time the team had excavated all the bones and encased them in plaster, the collection weighed 3,000 pounds, heavier than the helicopter could lift.

Shipp invested time and money to excavate and prepare the bones, aided by volunteers and palaeontologists including the PLOS ONE study co-authors Chris Ott and Peter Larson.

While excavating the fortress cellars in the 1980s, researchers began finding the teeth and bones of extinct animals from the early Pleistocene — the first clue to the site's prehistoric significance.

Many of the horse bones and teeth Olsen excavated at two Botai sites in Kazakhstan, called Botai and Krasnyi Yar, were used in the phylogenetic analysis.

This time they had sequenced DNA from a lone pinky finger bone, excavated from the Denisova cave in Siberia and dated to between 30,000 and 50,000 years old.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

He notes that the two bones were apparently originally fused together when excavated — connected by some of the reactive bone growth — but had apparently become separated over the years.

And yet we can not excavate some fossil from an Ethiopian hillside, point to a bone, and declare, «This is where language began.»

Thirdly, unlike bone remains, of which only a small percentage have been excavated, parchments are above ground, archived and in the case of legal documents, directly related to specific dates — a level of resolution largely unachievable with any other historic DNA source.

Excavated by a team of researchers led by D'Andrea of Simon Fraser, the bones analyzed for this study were recovered from the kitchen and living floors of an ancient farming community known as Mezber.

Hlubik and other archaeologists have excavated around 5,000 artifacts from the site — mostly chips of bone or stone flakes.

The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.

The bone fossils were excavated in the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia, where arctic conditions favor the preservation of DNA.

Padian and other critics also cite problems with the bones that Saitta excavated in Montana.

The team includes Thomas Sutikna of the National Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta and the University of Wollongong in Australia, who helped discover the «hobbit,» a small - statured human species from another Indonesian island, and he and Brumm are already excavating the caves near the newly dated art to search for ocher pieces, stone tools, and bones.

Author and site excavator Thomas Deméré, a paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum, says the team carefully excavated 50 square meters beginning in 1992, and the bones described in the paper were «deeply buried.

Archaeologists first excavated the Cerutti Mastodon site in 1992, after the construction exposed bones.

In a paper published Thursday in Science, researchers report that a 3 - meter - square chunk of rock they excavated contains 16 eggs with the fossilized bones of developing embryos.

By the end of the season, 30 tonnes of dinosaur bones had been excavated for further study in New York.

He was rummaging through boxes of animal bones previously excavated in the Sterkfontein caves, about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, where a number of fossils of australopithecines — advanced apes similar to the famous Lucy — have been discovered.

In addition to CT scanning of bones and teeth and radiocarbon dating of previously excavated materials, researchers hope to launch new archaeological digs, possibly in Europe or the Near East.

Studies of carbon isotopes in excavated turkey bones show that many birds were likely fed primarily with maize from nearby farm fields.

Now Steve Emslie, a marine ornithologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has developed an ingenious method of tracking climate change in the Antarctic: He has excavated and carbon - dated 45,000 years» worth of Adélie penguin poop, skin, bones, feathers, and eggshells from colonies preserved in Antarctica's frigid climate.

More than 6000 bones from the species — more than any other Alaska dinosaur — have been excavated and categorized.

The oldest genome yet sequenced came from a horse's foot bone dating to between 780,000 and 560,000 years ago that was excavated in Canada's Yukon.

After excavating the fossils, researchers spent six months transforming 84 of the bones into 3D, lightweight fiberglass replicas.

Although carnivorans vastly outnumber the amount of mammalian herbivorans excavated from the tar pits, no insect damage was found on their bones.

The team studied bones, tooth roots, and tooth enamel excavated from five fifth - century grave sites located in Hungary.

To help solve the mystery, an international team of researchers investigated 215 bones previously excavated from 11 sites in southern Iberia, in an area known as Spain today.

By a year later, the bones of an almost complete arm and hand had been exposed, though not yet excavated from the rock.

A total of 1501 bones and teeth excavated in 1952 were assigned to the broad - toed horse (Equus latipes).

She began microscopically examining 36,000 bone fragments that Cinq - Mars and his team had excavated.