Sentences with phrase «complete skeleton of»

Mary Anning and her brother Joseph found the complete skeleton of a Jurassic - era ichthyosaur in 1812; the creature (which was thought to resemble a crocodile) didn't receive its current scientific name until 1817.

The largest and most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex ever found was put on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, on May 17, 2000.

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.

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.

reationists have been making the claim that Donald Johanson found the knee joint of «Lucy,» a 40 % - complete skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis, in a location «Sixty to seventy meters lower in the strata and two to three kilometers away» (Willis 1987).

The 150 - million - year - old bones turned out to be a nearly complete skeleton of a nine - foot - long carnivorous marine reptile.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.

He discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a young adult male, which radiocarbon dating established at around 8,500 years old, making Kennewick Man one of the oldest and most complete human skeletons from North America.

This nearly complete skeleton of a large winged dinosaur was found in northeast China's Liaoning province.

«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.»

Fifteen hundred hours of digging into northwest India's sedimentary rock has brought forth the nearly complete skeleton of a 150 - million - year - old ichthyosaur — a marine reptile that roamed the seas in the age of dinosaurs, National Geographic reports.

An article in The Wall Street Journal this morning quoted paleontologist Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who described the potential significance of the «spectacular» complete skeleton of a young female primate that was discovered 2 years ago near Frankfurt, Germany.

When he returned to the site a few months later, he was able to free from the cliff almost the complete skeleton of a bizarre mammal, the size of a horse, with an enormous pelvis and a narrow, long face, resembling that of an anteater.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

This type of work is essential to discover more about ancient communities when the complete skeletons of individuals are not available.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

Recently, also in the Gobi, a team found fossils making up nearly complete skeletons of two additional specimens.

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.

They report the discovery of a second chamber within Rising Star with abundant H. naledi fossils, including one of the most complete skeletons of an early human ever found, as well as the remains of at least one child and another adult.

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

Because the ideal rivers for cave tubing are located deep in the jungle, many participants enjoy combining cave tubing with other complementary activities including zip lining through the canopy or spelunking one of the many sacred caves in the country, including ATM (Actun Tunichil Muknal) Cave that still hosts the complete skeletons of young children sacrificed to Maya gods more than 1,000 years ago.

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

(Not all of the Smithsonian's skeletons are complete.

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.

A crowd favorite, the breathtaking cast was fabricated and mounted by Research Casting International of Ontario, and it remains the only rendition of a complete Alamosaurus skeleton on exhibit anywhere in the world.

The juvenile is the most complete australopithecine skeleton yet found from the period: it includes much of the skull and large parts of an arm, leg and pelvis.

Overstreet never found the rest of that mammoth, but he did turn up another — one of the largest and most complete mammoth skeletons ever found.

A new near - complete fossilized skeleton is thought to represent the first Jurassic ichthyosaur found in India, according to a study published October 25, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Guntupalli Prasad from the University of Delhi, India, and colleagues.

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

Four distinct time horizons exist within the site, indicating that the mass strandings occurred repeatedly, and the relatively complete condition of the skeletons suggests that the death site was protected from scavengers and other forces that would distribute the bones.

The 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton was the most complete example of Australopithecus afarensis ever found.

The complete 1.5 metre tall skeleton was examined by Professor Alan Morris, from the University of Cape Town.

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.

Barrick and Showers measured the relative ratios of the isotopes oxygen - 16 and oxygen - 18 in the phosphate from 54 samples of a near - complete T. rex skeleton.

It's rare to find a skeleton preserved in life position, so having two complete individuals and parts of a third is really incredible.»

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.

Fossil hunter Mary Anning's 1823 discovery of the first complete plesiosaur skeleton led to more than 190 years of arguing.

«This new specimen is important because it is so complete,» says Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who found the skeleton in 2003 but was not involved in the new study.

In some instances, an isolated fin of an Ichthyosaurus had been added to a Protoichthyosaurus skeleton to make it appear more complete, which led to the genuine differences being missed.

They aren't quite as visually striking as complete dinosaur skeletons, but scientists can get a lot of...

Downstairs in the Field Museum's main hall, Sue, the biggest, most complete, and best - preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, was doing a good job of amazing, if not intimidating, that day's busloads of schoolchildren.

Such a complete, exquisitely preserved skeleton of a small dinosaur was something that palaeontologists could only have dreamed about a decade ago.

The near - complete human skeleton, with an intact cranium and preserved DNA, was found along with other extinct fauna by a team of scientific divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Proyecto de Espeleologia de Tulum (PET) in the Sac Actun cave system located off the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in 2007.

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.

There the Swiss biologist Louis Agassiz, who was just beginning his career and later became a professor of zoology at Harvard University, supervised a technical illustrator in drawing the complete skeleton in great detail.

In 2006 construction for a parking garage for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealed a prehistoric lion skull, dire wolves, and a near - complete mammoth skeleton from the last Ice Age, roughly 40,000 to 100,000 years ago.