Sentences with phrase «complete skeleton known»

The fossil discoveries made by barber and amateur naturalist Etienne Thirioux between 1899 and 1910 include some of the best dodo remains existing today, including the only complete skeleton known from a single bird (housed in the Natural History Museum in Port Louis, Mauritius), and another largely complete skeleton (housed in the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa).

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.

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Now we have a complete skeleton, and we know about the skin and the fur, says Burkart Engesser, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland, who helped identify the fossil.

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 Thirioux skeleton housed in the Mauritius Institute represents the only known complete dodo skeleton, and the only one comprising the bones of a single individual.

The nearly complete skeleton is about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

The nearly complete skeleton, unearthed from 160 - million - year - old mudstone deposits in northwestern China's Junggar Basin, extends the fossil record of alvarezsauroids back in time by a whopping 63 million years — making it about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

Although five other dinosaurs were already known at the time, Foulke's skeleton was the most complete one ever discovered, and it was mounted and displayed at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (along with many other museums in America), bringing dinosaurs to the public awareness.

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.

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.

Discovered by Donald Johanson at Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974 and nicknamed «Lucy» this fossil was the most complete skeleton and oldest member of what was then known of the human lineage but numerous scientists disputed she was truly bipedal, stating this species practiced a form of locomotion intermediate between the quadrupedal tree climbing of chimpanzees and human terrestrial bipedality.

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.