Sentences with phrase «excavating fossils»

After excavating the fossils, researchers spent six months transforming 84 of the bones into 3D, lightweight fiberglass replicas.

Pääbo had been collaborating with Russian paleoanthropologists who were excavating fossils in a cave in Siberia called Denisova.

This was the first dinosaur excavated by any American Museum expedition, and here I introduced the use of plaster of paris in excavating fossils.»

And yet we can not excavate some fossil from an Ethiopian hillside, point to a bone, and declare, «This is where language began.»

Researchers continue to excavate fossils alongside public tours in the Sterkfontein cave system.

While there is ample room for growth and improvement, Fossil Hunters manages to successfully tap into the inner child fascination many of us have with dinosaurs while tailoring its gameplay mechanics to capture the childhood spirit of digging around in the backyard or playground sandbox, pretending to excavate fossils and other buried treasures.

Consider the costs, difficulty and political issues surrounding excavating fossil fuel, as well as the risks to life and property against that as well.

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Your child will feel like a paleontologist while they study a real dinosaur bone, excavate a model dinosaur, and make their own fossils!

This Toolbox provides the opportunity to feel like a paleontologist while your child studies a real dinosaur bone, excavates a model dinosaur, and makes their own fossil!

Experience the excitement of discovery like a real paleontologist as you excavate 12 stones to uncover unique minerals and fossils!

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

And the arduous work of excavating and plastering the fossil was not the end of the saga, Martill recalls: «Building plaster's got clay in it and takes ages to dry, so we looked for firewood — which is not easy to find in a desert — dug a trench on either side of the bone and lit fires to encourage it to dry.»

First, fossil leaves and pollen excavated from the layers immediately below the K - T boundary show that the diversity of flowering plants substantially decreased in patches throughout the region before the extraterrestrial impact.

Excavated from Sterkfontein Cave over more than a decade, Little Foot is the oldest hominin fossil — and one of the most complete — ever found in South Africa.

We could not go into the whole story behind the misnamed Apatosaurus fossil excavated by Othniel Marsh in the 1870s, so one of our sources suggested we call it «the first named Brontosaurus» — which it certainly is, whatever the correct designation.

«Excavating plant fossils preserved in rocks deposited during the last days of the dinosaurs, we found some preserved with abundant fossilized charcoal and others without it.

In June a team of paleontologists identified the oldest example of such symmetry in a group of fossils excavated from a 600 - million - year - old rock quarry in southern China.

Van den Bergh and his team continue to dig at Mata Menge where, the paleontologist believes, «there must be many, many fossils waiting to be excavated.»

The bone fossils were excavated in the Taymyr Peninsula, Russia, where arctic conditions favor the preservation of DNA.

The fossils were quickly excavated, jacketed in plaster, and shipped to a nearby lab for ongoing cleaning and analysis so that construction could continue.

This would also explain the unusual lack of typical pond fossils at the site, as well as the near lack of gnaw marks on bones and calcite and barite concretions found on bones excavated from the quarry.

The tracks were made in a layer of volcanic soil at Fossil Lake, a site first excavated by UO science professor Thomas Condon in 1876 and today administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

Homo naledi fossils excavated there come from at least three individuals, including an adult male that the investigators named Neo.

That's one possible conclusion from 50 well - preserved fossils excavated from 520 - million - year - old rocks in southwestern China.

Efforts are under way to date the fossils and sediment from which they were excavated with a variety of techniques, said paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

He was rummaging through boxes of animal bones previously excavated in the Sterkfontein caves, about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, where a number of fossils of australopithecines — advanced apes similar to the famous Lucy — have been discovered.

A quarry in Strud, Belgium, that was excavated between 2004 and 2015 yielded fossils of multiple species of placoderms, which are extinct, armored fish that represent some of the earliest jawed vertebrates on Earth.

It took more than 15 years to excavate the fragile fossils from the rock.

While excavating a geologic layer from the Cretaceous era in Kuwajima, researchers found fossils of dinosaurs, turtles, lizards, fish, many types of plants, and Mesozoic mammals.

In 2013, the Russian - Belgian team excavated many dinosaur fossils, as well as plant and insect fossils.

To make a case for the channels, Osborne's team excavated snail fossils buried by half a metre of sand from a channel in Libya and compared their chemical makeup to rocks from volcanoes hundreds of kilometres away.

An analysis of hippo teeth excavated at an Ethiopian fossil site suggests that the hippo went from bit player to boss of the waterways in less than 1.5 million years.

He further added that the cranium which was found in the cave of Aroeira is the oldest human fossil that has been excavated to date, and has some common features with other fossils from the same time period that have been found in Spain, Italy and France.

Based on the age of well - preserved fossil teeth found in the newly excavated Fuyan Cave in Daoxian (southern China), modern humans were in southern China 30,000 — 70,000 years earlier than in the Levant and Europe.

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The first and second drafts of a book are when the scenes are coming together, and you are finding your story similarly to how an archaeologist would excavate «a fossil in the ground,» in the words of Stephen King.

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We have teams of second graders examining plant and animal fossils and engaging in simulated digs to excavate and identify animal skeletons.

It seems that in addition to the standard fossils, it'll be possible to excavate various minerals from the ground.

Freshly unearthed by Canadian indie shop Reptoid Games following a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign last fall, Fossil Hunters is a 3D isometric puzzle adventure in which you, as one of four playable characters, descend underground through 29 levels of increasing complexity and subterranean danger in search of precious, prehistoric fossils to excavate and reassemble.

Like excavated antiquities or fossils, Smythe's ceramic compositions allude to the cyclical nature of civilization — a dramedy in which all of the players are subject to conquest and demise.

Alongside the paintings are small figurines, which Kvetny refers to as «fossils», excavated from her paintings as physical embodiments of the universe that she has created — a unique universe of contemporary surrealism for the Internet age.

On the other side of the Arctic from the smoking fossil fuel pits of Alberta, nature is in the process of excavating a new, and no less terrifying, kind of pit.

Let's go ahead and pump, dig, excavate and burn every last possible fossil fuel we can as the Earth is immune to anything humans can do.

We simply can't go on drilling, excavating, and burning every ton of coal, oil, and gas the fossil fuel industry finds.