Sentences with phrase «dinosaur paleontology»

Located in South Jersey, the cradle of dinosaur paleontology, the Rowan University Fossil Park in Mantua Township,.

But together, Cappellini and others argue, the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

Together, some argue the papers have the potential to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science, much as analyzing ancient DNA has revolutionized the study of human evolution.

«Hold on,» I imagine a reader asking, «human ecology, sea ice physics, dinosaur paleontology, history — is this guy a legitimate expert in any single field?»

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The work also opens new avenues for research in paleontology: the method employed makes it possible to ascertain the incubation strategies adopted by other dinosaurs.

Jack Horner, perhaps the most famous dinosaur expert in the world, is the curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.

«Fossils have richer stories to tell — about the lub - dub of dinosaur life — than we have been willing to listen to,» says Robert T. Bakker, curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

With several colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, we were able to establish that certain key raptor dinosaurs were fully plumaged, with feathers that were entirely modern in structure.

She approached Jack Horner, a renowned dinosaur scientist, and asked if she could audit his vertebrate paleontology course at Montana State University.

This project focuses on the paleontology of some of oldest dinosaur - bearing rocks in Alberta and the neighbouring rocks of northern Montana that are of the same age.

During the past dozen years, crews from the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and several other partner institutions (e.g., the Utah Geologic Survey, the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology, and the Bureau of Land Management) have unearthed a new assemblage of more than a dozen dinosaurs in GSENM.

The dinosaur crashed onto the scene when paleontology was still a young and undisciplined field.

A trove of feathered dinosaurs and other astounding fossil finds in northern China shakes the roots of paleontology

«It could be that we are seeing two different species bashing in different ways, but it could also be a single dinosaur species where juveniles and adults exhibit different bashing behaviors,» says Andrew Farke, a paleontologist at the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

A team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing used computer software to examine evolutionary relationships among early birds and related dinosaurs, based on 374 skeletal characteristics.

«Knowing the diversity of plants in Cretaceous environments provides a better understanding of potential food sources for animals such as plant - eating dinosaurs,» says Judy Skog, program director for paleontology in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.

In the Gobi Desert of northern China, Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology accidentally stumbled upon a gigantic one - and - a-half-ton dinosaur while filming a documentary about a previous find.

As Mark Norell, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, puts it, dinosaur artwork «is a fantastic leap from what we know.»

Horner is the Tom Sawyer of paleontology: He gets people excited about dinosaurs, and then he recruits them to come and work (free!)

He is a professor and curator of paleontology at the MSU Museum of the Rockies and an author, he was a technical adviser on the three Jurassic Park movies, and he won a MacArthur genius award for his work on dinosaur behavior.

How an amateur fossil hound unearthed dinosaur remains in a most unlikely place and rocked the world of paleontology

The Mongolian students unload large plastic tubs filled with paleontology tools and casting materials used to preserve dinosaur bones.

According to new research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting here, some rhinoceros - sized dinosaurs successfully brooded in open - air nests by arranging the eggs so they wouldn't break.

«When you talk about paleontology to people the first thing they think of is dinosaurs,» he said.

UA Museum of the North research assistant Heather MacFarlane shows off one of the dinosaur bone fragments discovered in Denali National Park in July 2016 by museum researchers working with the park's paleontology staff.

At the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting, held here from 17 to 20 October, a researcher argued that what were thought to be two unique dinosaur species are in fact juveniles of different ages that would have grown up to be another species, bony - headed Pachycephalosaurus.

At the Museum of the Rockies we house one of the largest dinosaur collections in the country, and maintain two laboratories, one for the study of cellular and molecular paleontology, and the other for 3 - D imaging utilizing data from CT and 3 - D scanners.

«It's a work in progress, but molecular paleontology might show us how dinosaurs are related to each other and even provide some physiological insights if we're really lucky.»

For decades, one theory dominated the world of paleontology: Modern birds evolved from a wide - ranging group of dinosaurs called theropods, of which the Tyrannosaurus rex was one.

'' (Lythronax's) forward - facing eyes, powerful limbs and large size would have made it an efficient hunter of both duckbilled dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs like Diabloceratops,» added co-author Joseph Sertich, curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

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Explore some of the greatest mysteries of paleontology in a completely interactive way; What was a day in the life of a dinosaur like?

«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.

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Guaranteed to fan antigovernment sentiments among its audiences, Dinosaur 13 is less about paleontology than it is about prosecutorial overreach, political gamesmanship, dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people Dinosaur 13 is less about paleontology than it is about prosecutorial overreach, political gamesmanship, dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people dinosaur swindlers and true crime — if in fact crimes were even committed, and / or committed by the people accused.

And while Neill suggested in an interview last year that his Dr. Alan Grant is «retired from paleontology» and «sick to death of dinosaurs and running,» Dern says she'd love to reprise her Jurassic Park character Ellie Sattler in a future Jurassic World film.

Learn about Paleontology and discover the world of the most common dinosaurs through the eyes of a Paleontologist.

Dino Info History / Science Students can do some great dinosaur research at the University of California Museum of Paleontology at www.ucmp.berkeley.edu.

Scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named a new ankylosaurus species «Crichtonsaurus» after Michael Crichton, who's book Jurassic Park helped make dinosaurs one of the most popular scientific subjects.

Scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named a new ankylosaurus species «Crichtonsaurus» after Michael Crichton, who's book Jurassic Park helped make dinosaurs one of the most popular scientific subjects.

In fact, paleontology shows us that dinosaurs were highly adaptive and complex life forms, living at the edge of chaos.