Sentences with phrase «first fossils»

My native Sweden has enshrined climate goals into law, intending to become the world's first fossil free welfare state.

From the humble first fossils known as Cryptozoon to the spectacular sea monster Kronosaurus, Prothero guides readers through the history of life on our planet, weaving in entertaining tales of how the fossils were discovered — and the scientific debates they often provoked.

«Eat a paleo peach: First fossil peaches discovered in southwest China.»

Born: 13/03/49 Age at which he found his first fossil, a seashell: 7 Longest expedition: 3 months («In the Gobi Desert») Year in which he first named a newly discovered dinosaur species: 1979 (Amblydactylus kortmeyeri) Number of new species he's helped name: 30 Number of new species named after him: 5

The classic such find was only 2 years after Darwin's publishing On the Origin of Species: the first fossil ofthe species we know as Archaeopteryx was unearthed in southern Germany in 1861, and provided outstanding confirmation of Darwin's new ideas on evolution.

Tiny scales in ancient lagoon may be the first fossil evidence of the moth - butterfly line.

Paleontologists at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich correct a case of misinterpretation: The first fossil «Archaeopteryx» to be discovered is actually a predatory dinosaur belonging to the anchiornithid family, which was previously known only from finds made in China.

The Tully monster has been known since the 1950s, when the first fossils were found in Mazon Creek fossil beds in central Illinois.

Discovering one of South America's most intriguing dinosaurs was child's play: Diego Suarez was just 7 when he found the first fossils of the 145 - million - year - old herbivore that would bear his name, Chilesaurus diegosuarezi.

In January 2007, however, researchers announced the discovery of the first fossil leaf insect: a well - preserved, 47 - million - year - old specimen from Messel, Germany.

The site is where Lee Berger's young son discovered the first fossil fragments that would come to be known as Australopithecus sediba — and shake up the world of paleoanthropology.

It was the first fossil record of Plasmodium malaria, one type of which is now the strain that infects and kills humans.

German scientist Ernst Stromer collected the first fossils of the animal in 1912 in Egypt, but the bones were destroyed during World War II when the Munich museum housing them was flattened in an air raid.

The Taung child was the first fossil to challenge that orthodoxy.

Furthermore, the Geology Department at Rhodes, where Gess was based when he found his first fossil coelacanth, is on the site of the former Chemistry Department where Latimeria was first described.

His study, published in the journal Cretaceous Research, highlights it as the first fossil from a ceratopsian dinosaur identified from this period of eastern North America.

In a related study, published in Cretaceous Research, OSU scientists announced the first fossil record of Rickettsial - like cells, a bacteria that can cause various types of spotted fever.

The first fossils of flying insects date from the Carboniferous Period, roughly 360 million years ago, and they show jointed wings capable of flapping, not rigid ones designed for gliding.

During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil - record evidence of forest fire ecology — the regrowth of plants after a fire — revealing a snapshot of the ecology on earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

The first fossil feathers were discovered in 1861 in a limestone quarry in Germany, where workers unearthed a 145 - million - year - old bird, Archaeopteryx.

The first fossil discovery of this species was made on October 21, 1907 and came from Mauer where the workman Daniel Hartmann spotted a jaw in a sandpit.

The first fossil crumbles as we try to cast it.

He emerged with the equivalent of paleontological gold: more than 350 new species (including the dinosaurs Protoceratops and Velociraptor), the first fossils of Cretaceous mammals, and the first nests of dinosaur eggs.

The first fossil skulls of Homo erectus, 1.8 million years ago, had brains averaging a bit larger than 600 ml.

It was named for where the first fossils were unearthed: Argentina.

The formation was named for Morrison, Colorado where its first fossils were discovered by Arthur Lakes in 1877.

The most recent grant on the list is the 2004 expedition to the Canadian Arctic co-led by Shubin, PhD, the Robert R. Bensley Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, which discovered the first fossils of Tiktaalik on Ellsmere Island.

In Sweden, wind, hydro, and solar power account for 52 percent of the electricity used, which places it at No. 1 in the world for sustainable energy use and puts it firmly on the path to becoming the first fossil - fuel - free nation.

- year - old stone mason Archie Faiers made the find of a lifetime on his first fossil hunting outing - a giant ammonite.

Sweden will be amongst the first fossil free welfare nations of the world.

The first fossils were found by Noel Odell, in 1924.

Months later, she unearths the skeleton of an ichthyosaur, the first fossil of its kind ever found.

Like many areas of the world, Indonesia has been influenced and sometimes occupied by successive waves of immigration and religion: The islands of Indonesian have been inhabited for a very long time - in fact, one of the first fossil remains of Homo erectus, known as «Java man» was discovered in this island archipelago.

The first fossil pollen of maize, a Latin American species, appears in marine sediment in Europe in 1600, becoming common over subsequent centuries.

State Street Corp.'s asset management arm on Wednesday launched its first fossil - fuel free exchange - traded fund, citing investors» concerns over climate change.

Sweden intends to become one of the world's first fossil - free welfare nations.

Eerily, the Bakken shale dates to the Devonian, the era that records the first fossil charcoal, our first geologic record of burnt material.

««God Bless Trump»: 25 Years Ago This Man Kick Started the First Fossil Fuel — Funded Campaigns to Attack Climate Science,» DeSmog, January 29, 2017.

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Both have new watch apps, full round touchscreens making them the first Fossil smartwatches to offer this, as well as slimmer builds.

The first Fossil smartwatch to run Android Wear might be getting a bit old at this point, but it has a lot to offer users, especially those looking for a good - looking smartwatch.