Sentences with phrase «for palaeontology»

This is particularly true for palaeontology, which stands at the intersection of a wide array of disciplines including geology, biology, chemistry, materials science, statistics and biomechanics.

In addition to its stellar faculty, the institute boasts the largest professional library for palaeontology and stratigraphy in Asia, with journal collections dating back to the 1770s; a collection of 160,000 type specimens (fossils that define a species or subspecies); and a research station in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

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Speaking at the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada estimated the fish must have been at least 4 metres long...

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

But our model shows us there were probably several factors,» says Dr. P. Martin Sander, a professor at the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Although it is one of the earliest known members this group, its thickened skull dome is surprisingly well - developed for its geological age,» said lead author Evans, ROM curator, vertebrate palaeontology.

The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà - Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin.

«Illicit fossil trade presents a great challenge to modern palaeontology and accounts for a dramatic loss of Mongolian scientific heritage,» says Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

I was rummaging through drawers in the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada, looking for a Tyrannosaurus rex claw, when I found something I'd never seen before.

For example, in my own field of palaeontology, it is not unknown for someone to say to me: «Steve, I've just collected this specimen that I suspect may be a new speciFor example, in my own field of palaeontology, it is not unknown for someone to say to me: «Steve, I've just collected this specimen that I suspect may be a new specifor someone to say to me: «Steve, I've just collected this specimen that I suspect may be a new species.

This emphasizes the downsides of not integrating all data sources, and reveals a situation perhaps akin to that of astronomy and experimental physics in the pursuit of cosmology: Together, palaeontology and development can come much closer to telling the whole story of evolution — this integrative approach resolves previous disparities that have challenged the support for the dinosaur - bird link and reveals previously undetected processes, including loss of bones, fusion of bones, and re-evolution of a transiently lost bone.

He ran dinosaur - digging tours which charged «volunteers» upwards of $ 1500 a week, and was director of palaeontology at the small, not - for - profit Phillips County Museum in Malta, a town of 1800 people in the north - east of the state.

He was based in New York for most of his professional life, where he was known as father of mammalian palaeontology.

«In spite of their colossal diversity today, the origin of mandibulates had largely remained a mystery,» said Cédric Aria, lead author of the study and recent graduate of the PhD program in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, now working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanjing Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, in China.

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