Sentences with phrase «dinosaur palaeontologist»

«It's not what I would have expected, but it seems to fit the evidence in general,» says Tom Holtz, a dinosaur palaeontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Lacking the political clout needed to extract billions from government agencies, dinosaur palaeontologists are taking a different course.

Not exact matches

Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have shown how one of the best - known dinosaurs switched from four feet to two as it grew.

In a TEDx talk palaeontologist Jack Horner asks the question: «where are all the baby dinosaurs?»

For 130 years palaeontologists have considered the phylogeny of the dinosaurs in a certain way.

It was Harry Govier Seeley, a palaeontologist trained in Cambridge under the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick, who determined that dinosaurs fell quite neatly into two distinct groupings, or clades; Saurischia or Ornithischia.

For 130 years palaeontologists have been working with a classification system in which dinosaur species have been placed in to two distinct categories: Ornithischia and Saurischia.

South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200 - million - year - old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word «sefapano.»

«New Sesotho - named dinosaur from South Africa: Palaeontologists name 200 - million - year - old dinosaur, Sefapanosaurus.»

Museum palaeontologist Dr. Jordan Mallon completed the scientific analysis that pinned down the dinosaur as a new species.

Palaeontologists have long suspected that some dinosaurs migrated, but this is the first solid evidence of it, says Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.

As Dr. Sullivan further remarked, «The Cretaceous feathered dinosaurs of northeastern China have been astonishing palaeontologists and the public for almost two decades now, and the Daohugou Biota preserves their Jurassic counterparts in the same region.

Now palaeontologists claim to have obtained DNA directly from dinosaur fossils.

Palaeontologists have become used to being the butt of such jokes, ever since Michael Crichton's fantasy of recreating a dinosaur world reached the silver screen.

Unhatched dinosaur embryos are also very rare fossils, but Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and a group of Argentine palaeontologists had earlier found bones in some of the thousands of eggs they uncovered in Patagonia.

Palaeontologists have finally found two intact skulls of a massive dinosaur called a titanosaur.

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

In terms of its regal name, T. rex now has a rival in Rhinorex condrupus, a new dinosaur described by US palaeontologists.

Underlying this striking evolutionary transformation change is a halving in the number of wrist bones, but developmental biologists and palaeontologists have different names for most of them, and seldom agree on the correspondence between specific dinosaur bones and those of their bird descendants.

In 2011, palaeontologists found the first solid evidence that sauropod dinosaurs migrated seasonally, about 150 million years ago.

The fossils clearly show a small dinosaur that had flight feathers covering its legs, as well as tail and arms, forming an extra pair of wings never before seen by palaeontologists.

In the late 1960s, new fossils from Montana and Mongolia provided Robert Bakker, a palaeontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with evidence for his controversial claims that dinosaurs were warm - blooded.

Because he is not a palaeontologist, Suzuki drew heavily on the research of dinosaur specialists.

Today, not one curator at the American Museum, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington or the Field Museum in Chicago is a palaeontologist specialising in dinosaurs.

The two palaeontologists studied different fossils of the Jurassic dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki: a very young (juvenile) individual of approximately three years of age and a fully grown specimen of more than 12 years of age.

His conversations with palaeontologists gave him the impression that nobody really knew how dinosaurs sounded.

By IAN ANDERSONOver the past decade, palaeontologists and hardy volunteers have been painstakingly blasting and drilling into the base of a 90 - metre - high cliff in a remote part of the rugged coast of southeastern Australia — the only dinosaur mine in the world.

In their article on discredited dinosaur hunter Nate Murphy, Jeff Hecht and Joe Iacuzzo state that: «for decades out - of - state palaeontologists...

For decades, palaeontologists have debated whether the physiology of non-avian dinosaurs was akin to that of today's cold - blooded reptiles or warm - blooded mammals.

Palaeontologists were uncertain of the existence of long - snouted tyrannosaurs until the remains of the dinosaur — named Qianzhousaurus sinensis — were unearthed in southern China.

Palaeontologists have often examined bone microstructure in their investigations of dinosaur growth and physiology.

Pedley argues that sauropod dinosaurs could not have browsed from the treetops, as some palaeontologists have suggested.

We decided to repeat the study with a larger data set and a better understanding of bird biology because other palaeontologists were starting to use the original results in Science in order to predict the incubation behaviour of other dinosaur species.

For instance, palaeontologists had been excited about prints found in Greenland, dating back some 220 million years, which suggested that the animal making them had a reversed back toe — a feature not recorded in theropod dinosaurs of that time but common in their descendants, the birds.

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs performed dance - like mating rituals.

Now, palaeontologists have uncovered a bizarre new species of dinosaur that seems to blend together a swan, a penguin, a crocodile and a Velociraptor.

Also on this stand, G01, Yellow Door will be showing delegates the award ‑ winning dinosaur bones, which are causing lots of excitement across early years and KS1 settings, and are perfect for budding palaeontologists and for learning early measuring skills.

The beaches and coastal cliffs around the Lightstation hold a rich cargo of dinosaur secrets which remain of high interest to palaeontologists.

Research results on Timimus and Leaellynasaura set the scientific world on fire and helped create a rethink among palaeontologists — these dinosaurs were highly adapted animals which thrived in freezing conditions.

In 1991 palaeontologists discovered one of the largest fossils recovered from Dinosaur Cove — a 43 cm long femur from an extremely fast, ostrich - like dinosaur named Timimus Dinosaur Cove — a 43 cm long femur from an extremely fast, ostrich - like dinosaur named Timimus dinosaur named Timimus hermani.