Sentences with phrase «complete skull»

The fossil, from an infant, is the lineage's most complete skull between 7 million and 17 million years old.

Consider the 68 - million - year - old, nearly complete skull of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, found in southwestern Alberta, Canada and described in Current Biology in June.

A nearly complete skull of a mysterious member of the human family was unveiled this week at the same time as researchers reported a surprisingly recent age for this ancient cave dweller in South Africa.

The discovery in the Manot Cave of Israel's Western Galilee of an almost complete skull dating back 55,000 years provides direct anatomical evidence that fills the historic time gap of modern human migration into Europe.

A local fossil hunter spotted the nearly complete skull in rock layers located near Kenya's Lake Turkana.

The tiny find, about the size of a lemon, is one of the most complete skulls known of any extinct ape that inhabited Africa, Asia or Europe between 25 million and 5 million years ago, researchers report in the Aug. 10 Nature.

The UW and Burke team said their find marks just the 15th fairly complete skull in the world.

To confirm that the canines were indeed dogs, he and Aleksey Kasparov, an archaeozoologist at the same academy, compared the two most complete skulls with those of wolves and Siberian Huskies from the region.

The remarkably complete skull was discovered in the Turkana Basin of northern Kenya 3 years ago.

A virtual replica of the first complete skull of a mysterious mammal is revealing the structure of its bizarre bones

After researchers dusted them off in 2014, high - resolution surface scanners and the more complete skulls of close relatives allowed them to create a three - dimensional model of the creature.

Unlike the Svalbard pliosaurs, which are in thousands of frost - shattered fragments, and the mandible unearthed in the UK at Cumnor, Oxfordshire, which has been extensively reconstructed, the Dorset pliosaur is a substantially complete skull and mandible — not just a...

To create these lifelike busts, Gurche starts with a plastic or plaster cast of the most complete skull available for each species, typically provided by an expert in the field.

One nearly complete skull unearthed at Dali in Shaanxi province and dated to 250,000 years ago, has a bigger braincase, a shorter face and a lower cheekbone than most H. heidelbergensis specimens3, suggesting that the species was more advanced.

Dubois started searching in the same place, and found a second less complete skull.

These four fossils include a nearly - complete skull from the North Dakota Geological Survey State Fossil collection, a partial snout and an upper jaw bone from the Burke Museum's collections, and another upper jaw from the Sierra College Natural History Museum.

Kosmoceratops «s almost complete skull was found in the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument along with two partial skulls of a second species, named Utahceratops gettyi.

The tiny find, about the size of a lemon, is one of the most complete skulls known of any extinct ape that inhabited Africa, Asia or Europe between 25 million and 5 million years ago, researchers report in the...

Fragmentary fossils of the new species — bones from a fairly complete skull, as well as some from one wing and leg — were discovered in 1983, when excavations began for a new terminal at Charleston International Airport.

A nearly complete skull, Cranium 17, from the Sima de los Huesos is composed of 52 cranial fragments recovered during excavations at the site over the last 20 years.

«It's the most complete skull of an adult from this date,» says Marcia Ponce de León of the Anthropological Institute and Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, who studied the fossil.

Paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto, who found the most complete skull of this forest - dwelling species, says its long arms and curved finger bones indicate that Rudapithecus spent a lot of time hanging from branches.

A bit more digging revealed a nearly - complete skull, which the miners turned over to their field doctor.

APE CHILD An infant ape's nearly complete skull, found in Kenya, dates to about 13 million years ago.

Such prefossilization means «there are often hundreds if not thousands of teeth for every skeleton or complete skull we find....

The finding, reported online today in Current Biology, comes from CT scans of several more - complete skulls of the species (artist's concept, above) also unearthed on Kenya's Rusinga Island, a near - shore landmass in the northeastern corner of Africa's Lake Victoria.

The traits exhibited by Skull 5, and the less - complete skulls 1 through 4, are typically identified as belonging to three separate species within the Homo genus: erectus, rudolfensis and habilis.

Within a Primate Skull When it comes to early primates, complete skulls are extremely rare — but when we find them, they invariably fill in long - sought details of our human family tree.

This approach not only allowed the restoration of the complete skull of Erlikosaurus, but also the study of its individual elements.

The specimen itself — a nearly complete skull, two portions of the jaw, and a handful of teeth — can't be dated directly because it wasn't found in the kind of sediment that allows radioactive dating; however, Brunet was able to come up with an age by comparing the bones with those found at similar sites in Kenya and Ethiopia.

The complete skull of a big - toothed, small - brained male found at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe may erase an entire collection of named, early hominid species by showing they were all, in fact, variations of a single species.

«The specimen includes not just a complete skull, but a complete vertebral column and parts of both flippers.»

Meet «Mrs. Ples,» the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus, unearthed in Sterkfontein, South Africa in 1947.

Pithecanthropus IV, discovered in the late 1930's, «was a nearly complete skull», when it actually consisted of the back part of a brain case and an upper jaw.

Further excavations found some more bones, and exposed the left side of a complete skull.