Sentences with phrase «few fossils»

The first is to produce fewer emissions, which means burning fewer fossil fuels.

Few fossils of its relatives have been found, so its lineage is almost as hotly debated as that of humans.

But exactly what early dinosaurs and their closest relatives looked like has been something of a mystery, because few fossils exist from the dawn of the dinosaurs.

Industry leaders knew about the risks of global warming as early as the 1970s, but recognized that dealing with global warming meant using fewer fossil fuels.

This fragile shell also may explain why few fossils had survived.

Reducing CO2 emissions would encourage people to use fewer fossil fuel based energy sources and move towards cleaner energy sources.

«Unfortunately, there are very few fossil finds of Gigantopithecus — only a few large teeth and bones from the lower mandible are known,» explains Prof. Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «But now, we were able to shed a little light on the obscure history of this primate.»

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With so few fossils collected from the late Oligocene, Stevens says, it is too early to say whether the rift is the birthplace of the apes — especially as Rukwapithecu «s jaw is relatively advanced, indicating that even older apes remain to be discovered.

So turning CO2 into fuel would be a 1 - 2 punch to climate change: it would mean burning fewer fossil fuels, and using up some of the waste we created by burning them in the first place.

Large canines may be fearsome weapons, but their size makes them prone to fracture — and yet very few fossil sabre - toothed cats have broken teeth.

For more than half a century, the Baharõøya Oasis attracted few fossil hunters.

The site should shed more light on the Triassic, a period from which relatively few fossils are known.

The survey found that generational differences were negligible among Democrats, who largely agreed that more should be done to protect the environment and favored fewer fossil fuel energy sources.

Few fossils of Sivatherium giganteum, a species first described in 1836, have been unearthed.

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But it has been hard to reconstruct the structure of such ancient blooms because so few fossils have been found.

Scientists know very little about what the scales of ancient butterflies and moths looked like because that level of detail is preserved in very few fossils, says Conrad Labandeira, a paleoentomologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., who wasn't part of the work.

The DOE's graphic and facts about the grid and how it works are especially helpful now that new regulations may soon demand that electric power be generated with fewer fossil fuels and be used more efficiently in an effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change.

Växjö in southern Sweden will be welcoming to the conference representatives from other European cities keen to learn how to consume fewer fossil fuels and become more sustainable.

Even with that being so, there are quite a few fossil specimens from species related to ours.

Evolutionists of all stripes believe, however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted from periods before about 600 million years ago.

The fewer the fossil - fueled travel days required, the better it is for Mother Earth.

It has a rival for the tallest penguin crown, though, as a few fossil bones of a penguin that may have been slightly taller were found in Peru in 2007.

Here are the five species with the fewest fossils

Previously, scientists had found only a few fossils of filter - feeding fish, which lived about 145 million years ago and then seemingly went extinct.

However, few fossils of animals from the eastern «lost continent» of Appalachia have been found because these areas being densely vegetated, making it difficult to discover and excavate fossils.

However, researchers had few fossils of the foot of H. erectus to prove it walked just like we do.

Nobody knows what Denisovans looked like because there are so few fossils.

The stakes are considerable — even a few fossil microbes on Mars would shatter our lingering conceit that Earth might be unique in the universe as a haven for life.

The findings, published in the July 3 issue of Nature Communications, are important because they offer new clues to how primate brains changed over time, and during a period from which there are very few fossils.

«Until recently, the fossil records from different parts of North America disagreed with each other, with a few fossil localities suggesting that bison arrived millions of years ago, but most old fossil sites showing no evidence of bison at all,» Shapiro said.

But few fossils have been found from the creatures that lived in between those two stages, and many aren't in great shape.

Denisovans An ancient humanlike population whose existence is known only because of a few fossils discovered in a cave in Siberia.

I met quite a few fossil dealers in Erfoud and in the Tafilalet region, and also quite a few foreign desperadoes of various kinds.

One of only a few fossil sites in the world, Naracoorte Cave is a real treasure in South Australia.

Areas that have few fossil fuel resources and no shale gas can apply straight away for technical help to begin processing their plant waste.

But politicians were only beginning to appreciate that it would take a staggering coordinated effort to get nations to burn fewer fossil fuels and avoid sharp temperature increases in the decades ahead.

There are much more reasons that will lead to fewer fossil fuel consumption — not only CO2 regulations.

Notwithstanding this regulatory requirement, few fossil fuel companies discuss how trends towards a low - carbon economy will impact their results and financial condition.

Their unique business plans eliminate the middle man, use sustainable methods and few fossil fuels and show a decent living can be made!

Use of recycled or reclaimed materials in construction, and locally if possible: This minimizes the carbon footprint so that fewer fossil fuels are needed to either make or transport the materials across several states.