Sentences with phrase «dodo skeletons»

The dodo skeletons described in this Memoir were discovered more than a century ago by an amateur naturalist, Etienne Thirioux, who was a barber by trade.

In contrast, all other known dodo skeletons are incomplete and typically made up from the bones of many different individuals.

Published 150 years after Sir Richard Owen's first scientific description of dodo anatomy, based on incomplete, composite skeletons, the new atlas is the first to show accurate relative proportions and to describe several previously unknown bones of the dodo skeleton, including knee caps, ankle and wrist bones.

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.

A rare example of the extinct bird, this Dodo skeleton is a composite from the material collected from Mau - ritius by Sir Edward Newton in the 1870s and sent to his brother Alfred Newton, Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University.

This year's show explores the historic links between art and science with a cabinet - of - curiosities - style presentation of works from Cambridge University's museums: expect a dodo skeleton and cases of Lepidoptera sharing space with paintings and prints.

Not exact matches

While a few dodo bones and one skeleton remain in museums, they aren't enough to tell biologists exactly why or how the birds went extinct more than 300 years ago.

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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.

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).

Skeleton of the extinct Dodo, endemic to Mauritius, on display at the Mauritius Natural History Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius.