Sentences with phrase «complete skeleton»

Her nearly complete skeleton offers a lot of information to scientists, such as that she was about 5 feet tall and, when food was plentiful, weighed about 110 pounds.

The almost complete skeleton on plate A has been well prepared, and it also lies on a polyester resin background.

The most - complete skeleton belonged to a woman who stood about a meter tall.

Subsequent excavations in the region during the second half of the 19th century turned up nearly complete skeletons of duck - billed, horned, and armored dinosaurs.

In 2006, facing 70 - mile - per - hour winds, a U.S. - Argentinian research team recovered one of the most complete skeletons of a plesiosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile that lived in the Southern Ocean.

Discoveries in more recent years of more complete skeletons in rare fossil beds that preserve exceptional details first challenged this idea about 10 years ago.

«We hope to find a more complete skeleton of Albertavenator in the future, as this would tell us so much more about this fascinating animal.»

(The most complete skeleton for a T. rex suggests it grew to about 40 feet long.)

PARIS — He may be called Little Foot, but for human evolution researchers he's a big deal: His is the most complete skeleton known of an early member of the human lineage.

This documentary follows an ambitious project that uses cutting - edge DNA analysis to accurately recreate the face of Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man

The long, filament - like feathers preserved with three relatively complete skeletons of the newly described species provide direct evidence of extensively feathered gigantic dinosaurs.

The researchers carefully uncovered another exceptionally complete skeleton — an older woman, as shown by her frail bones and worn teeth.

The nearly complete skeleton provides critical insights into the traits that helped such multituberculates thrive in their day.

The fossils include complete skeletons of creatures ranging in size from rodents to pygmy horses, as well as insects and feathers that still have hints of their original colors.

The expedition discovered the fossil scraps — part of a thigh bone and some skull fragments — at a site 70 kilometres south of the area that yielded Lucy, the remarkably complete skeleton named Australopithecus afarensis, discovered in 1974.

I guess not, because from everything I hear and see we have found tons of dinosaur bones and even complete skeletons.

In 2008, he discovered the most complete skeleton yet published of an ancient African hominin, 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

Now we finally have proof for such giants: a 70 per cent complete skeleton of Pelagornis chilensis, a sea bird that lived 5 to 10 million years ago in Chile.

The face of «Cheddar Man», Britain's oldest nearly complete skeleton at 10,000 years old, is revealed for the first time and with unprecedented accuracy by UCL and Natural History Museum researchers.

Almost more impressive than the diversity of the biota is the preservation of many of the vertebrate specimens, including complete or nearly - complete skeletons associated with preserved soft tissues such as feathers, fur, skin or even, in some of the salamanders, external gills.

The study began by reviewing the collections at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and at the Museo d'Archéologie national de St. Germain - en - Laye linked to the excavations at La Ferrassie in 1970 and 1973; it was there that 47 new fossils belonging to La Ferrassie 8, which complete its skeleton further, were recovered.

The most famous of the recent finds is a pair of near - complete skeletons discovered in 2008, belonging to Australopithecus sediba, an entirely new species.

Some adapiforms, like North American Notharctus, are known from nearly complete skeletons like that of Darwinius.

The researchers believe these bones, which were thought to be the limbs of land - dwelling dinosaurs, may be other giant ichthyosaur jawbone fragments, but it's hard to know for sure until a more complete skeleton turns up.

Making matters worse, the fossils are not complete skeletons but scattered bones — a skull cap here, a forearm there.

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

Owen's surprising results included other gigantic extinct ground sloths as well as the Megatherium, a near complete skeleton of the unknown Scelidotherium and a hippopotamus - sized rodent - like skull named Toxodon resembling a giant capybara.

The Bones Project exhibit displays complete skeletons of two different whales, a sea lion, seal, dolphin and otter.

The archaeological site at La Ferrassie, excavated throughout the 20th century, is a mythical enclave because it was where 7 Neanderthal skeletons, ranging from foetuses to almost complete skeletons of adults, were found.

The high - profile Heritage Auctions event sold the near - complete skeleton for just over $ 1 million.

Brown worked on the joint Australian - Indonesian team that found the nearly complete skeleton in Liang Bua cave in September 2003.

With two relatively complete skeletons, and fragments from four others, the Malapa discovery is one of the most puzzling, and extensive, early hominin finds in recent decades.

Last September, zoologist Marcelo Sánchez - Villagra of the University of Tübingen in Germany unveiled the «exceptionally complete skeleton» of an 8 - million - year - old swampland forager that was by far the largest rodent ever known: roughly nine feet long and more than 1,500 pounds.

The extensive analysis of a near - complete skeleton provides a detailed view into Archie's varied traits.

Discovered in 2009 at a site called Malapa and announced the following year, Australopithecus sediba is represented by remarkably complete skeletons of an adult female and a juvenile male.

A nearly complete skeleton of an early long - necked plesiosaur has been found in a clay pit in Germany, and reveals they survived a mass extinction

The fossilized remains of a colossal dinosaur discovered in Argentina marks the most complete skeleton of a titanosaur ever unearthed.

A television documentary will follow Museum scientists as they help deduce the astonishing facial appearance of Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man.

The idea was first challenged about 10 years ago with the discovery of more complete skeletons, including a honey - badger - sized predator of baby dinosaurs, and a beaver - like fish - eater called Castorocauda.

August 15, 2013 Earliest complete fossil from major group of ancient mammal discovered Flexible ankles and versatile ridged teeth were the key adaptations that allowed mutituberculates to become the most successful group of ancient mammals, as revealed with the discovery of a 160 million - year - old fossil — the earliest known complete skeleton of a multituberculate.

«For the first time ever, we have a complete skeleton of a baby ceratopsid,» Currie said in a statement.

Topher They apparently did not find perfect and complete skeletons.

But, even the most repected scientists say that that there is only a total of bone fragment equal to less than an 8 x 10 room on the human ancestry with Lucy being the most complete skeleton (which is still missing a lot of bones).

For an extra challenge, see if party guests can reassemble their bony treasures into a complete skeleton set.

The newly discovered fossils, described online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are a scrappy collection of bits and pieces rather than a complete skeleton.

The near - complete skeleton, nearly 5.5 m long, is thought to belong to the Ophthalmosauridae family, which likely lived between around 165 and 90 million years ago.

Looking the small horse in the mouth The researchers did not have complete skeletons to measure for all of the animals, so to track the size of the horses over time they looked at their teeth — in particular, their molars.

The as - yet - unpublished ancient DNA from the nearly complete skeleton of this individual will show that he lacked genetic variants for light skin that spread later in Europeans, according to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London who have unveiled a new reconstruction; they say a scientific paper is coming later this month.