Sentences with phrase «first species named»

Actual lions evolved on a different fork in the mammal genealogical tree, but Australia's marsupial lions got their feline nickname from the size and slicing teeth of the first species named, in 1859.

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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

Jacquin, who first described the species as «chinense» in his work, Hortus botanicus vindobonensis, wrote, mysteriously, «I have taken the plant's name from its homeland,» which was dead wrong.

Fifty - four clubs in the first eight levels of the football pyramid are named after birds, with 20 different species represented.

1825: Only the second dinosaur (after Megalosaurus) to be classified scientifically, the species's first fragmentary fossils were named by British paleontologist Gideon Mantell for the similarity of their teeth to those of iguanas.

The name Alamosaurus came from the Ojo Alamo trading post and geological formation in New Mexico from which the first bones of the species were found (not after the historic battle in San Antonio, Texas in 1836).

The animal's shifting position on the tree of life began when the first species, named Xenoturbella bocki, was found off the coast of Sweden in 1950.

The frog was named by herpetologist Blair Hedges for its seeming ability to throw its voice, making it extremely challenging to locate — especially since it is the species» call that first alerted the search team to its presence.

The first half of a humerus offered enough information that the species to which it belonged could be named Atlantochelys mortoni.

Linnaeus, a botanist with a talent for noticing details, first used what he called «trivial names» in the margins of his 1753 book Species Plantarum.

It is currently unknown what the new species feeds upon, but naming the species and bringing it to attention is the first step in learning more about it.

We identified the first divergence in Neoaves, two groups we named Passerea and Columbea, representing independent lineages of diverse and convergently evolved land and water bird species.

The first species, «Saurichthys breviabdominalis,» is named for its relatively short body and the second, «Saurichthys rieppeli,» is named after Olivier Rieppel, a Swiss paleontologist formerly based at the University of Zurich.

Given the tiny insect from northeastern Gabon is the first record of its genus for West - Central Africa, the researchers Dr. Stefania Laudonia and Dr. Gennaro Viggiani, both affiliated with Italy's University of Naples Federico II, decided to celebrate it by assigning the species a name that refers to the continent.

Whoever is the first to discover a new species is allowed to name it.

In most scientific papers on the cane toad, the official name of the species is given as Bufo marinus — the first name (Bufo, the genus) is based on this species being a «true toad» or bufonid.

In 1856, three years before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a group of miners uncovered human fossils in a limestone cave in the Neander Valley of northern Germany — what would later be named Neanderthal 1, the first specimen to be recognized as belonging to another, archaic species ofSpecies, a group of miners uncovered human fossils in a limestone cave in the Neander Valley of northern Germany — what would later be named Neanderthal 1, the first specimen to be recognized as belonging to another, archaic species ofspecies of human.

We've shrunken it down to a third of a mile along the Charles River, and invite you to join us on a walk through time to tour the many incredible events during Earth's long and storied history: the formation of the oceans, the origin of life, the first animals, the rise and fall of dinosaurs, and the appearance and evolution of our own species (to name just a few).

Another view of the Denisova cave, for which the Denisovans are named, as the Homo species was first described based on molecular data from Denisova Cave.

She grows native Hawaiian plants and the «canoe plants,» the name for the 21 species the first Polynesian settlers determined they needed to survive, bringing them with them on their canoes for food, building materials, and potent medicinal properties.

He, a first - year student named Karen (Brit Marling), and his lab partner / roommate Kenny (Steven Yeun) are attempting to find a species that has the genetic predisposition for an eye but has not developed one of any kind.

That system provides two names for a species — a family name (generic name or genus name), which always has a capital letter as the first letter, and a personal name (specific name), which is always in lower case letters.

You might use this resource to show students that two different species of goldenrod have the same last name and different first names.

Named after a species of wild Ox that predates the modern domestic cattle, the Urus is Lamborghini's second SUV that comes nearly 25 years after their first SUV, the LM002, went out of production.

Named after a species of tree that is native to the Pacific Coast in the US (and that grows up to 135 feet high), the Atlas Tanoak is the first pickup based on Volkswagen's MQB (modular transverse matrix) architecture.

Named after a species of tree that is native to the Pacific Coast in the US (and that grows up to 135 feet high), the Atlas Tanoak is the first pickup based... Read more →

This species is the type species of Cricetiscus (named by Thomas in 1917, and now considered a synonym of Phodopus), and is named after C. W. Campbell, who first collected it on July 1, 1902, in Inner Mongolia.

At 1 pm on 1st September 1914, the last of the species, named Martha, died in the Cincinnati zoo; the first time the exact moment a species disappearing was recorded.

Stage 3 also gives us the first signs of the new law firm world — mobile virtual solos and streamlined mega-firms, to name two of the first species to emerge.