Sentences with phrase «for old fossil»
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to unveil its plan for old fossil fuel plants in June, after more than a year of working on the issue with states, industry groups, and environmentalists.
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I know this not only from personal conversations with my fellow fossils, but also through a discussion with an accountant recently in which he told me that the number one reason most of his older clients haven't retired yet is because they are afraid to before they are eligible for Medicare.
We can prove certain things about the past, for example, old climates, fossil dating, genetic history via genomes, etc..
As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.
That and hiding fossils that, for all the world, test as millions of years old, as well as a mountain of other evidence, if he's responsible for faking all of it then he is seriously twisted and not at all interested in «the truth.»
For example, you all disagree with us that the earth is 6 - 10,000 years old because of you think fossils are millions of years old.
Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.
@Fred Oh, so you are adopting the old «God the deceiver» stuff where all the massive evidence for evolution and the fossil record is just a huge illusion that god put there to be a dip.
As for the transitional fossils, the moving of the goal posts is what gets old.
Keeping that delusional old fossil in charge is the best option for everyone except Arsenal fans because they know he is a tactical buffoon — hence why people like Klopp are talking such rubbish.
We, instead have an old, senile, fossil who thinks all coaches are long vehicles for travelling in rather than improving teams.
A further interesting and little publicized fact: scientific analysis of some of the oldest human fossils ever found on the planet has shown that breast milk was the principal form of food for the first three to four years of life [vi].
In science news around the world, eastern Asia is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization boom, the European Commission announces a plan to create a unified energy market for the European Union, an external review of the University of Minnesota's clinical trials procedures says the university didn't adequately protect its most vulnerable subjects, a new data repository of the world's oldest fossils is launched, and the Argonne National Laboratory's 24 - year - old Ask A Scientist service closes its virtual doors.
The exciting discovery and recovery of the first complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus by ten - year - old Mary Anning in 1811 is told in an attractive graphic novel format, perfect for young readers.
Rare remains show a primitive shrimp - like creature apparently caring for four juveniles — the oldest example of parental care in the fossil record
Finding evidence of malformation mechanisms in 252 million year old pollen fossils is impossible, so Looy and others have looked for other ways to determine whether increased UV - B disrupted the end - Permian ecosystem.
«Re-examination of old fossils using new techniques is just as important for revitalizing our understanding of vertebrate evolution.»
A technological feat — extraction of human DNA from fossils nearly half a million years old — has revised the timeline for our species.
THE record for the oldest feathered dinosaur, which has stood since the discovery of Archaeopteryx, has finally fallen to an even older fossil unearthed in China.
A 12 - million - year - old fossil hominid from Spain provides the strongest evidence yet for this idea.
Patrick Orr at University College Dublin is bringing together geologists and organic geochemists to look for soft tissue in a 10 - million - year - old frog fossil.
For those of you who have been following the story of Bone Dusters Paleo Ale, the beer made with yeast living on a 35 - million - year old whale fossil, there's exciting news out of Lost Rhino Brewery today.
Scientists have spent decades searching for the missing link between the two creatures, and now it seems they finally found it in the form of a 505 - million - year - old fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale: Spartobranchus tenuis (pictured in the illustrated artist's conception).
This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.
The Poinars were sufficiently convinced of the potential for amber as a remarkable natural preservative to pursue the possibility of finding fossil tissue and cellular material far older than any previously identified.
More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.
A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.
He investigated two roughly 50 - million - year - old primitive flatfish fossils hidden in museums in Europe for more than a century.
The fossil hunters unearthed about 55 percent of the 65 - million - year - old skeleton — encased in a mixture of mud and sand known in paleontological jargon as the matrix — and sold it to the British businessman Graham Lacey, reportedly for $ 5 million to $ 8 million.
Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.
They also hope to get an even more precise radioisotopic date on the oldest dinosaur - bearing rocks, and the search for more Triassic fossils continues.
While older fossils of modern humans have been found in Africa, the timing and routes of modern human migration out of Africa are key issues for understanding the evolution of our own species, said the researchers.
Although the fossil record for the first members of the Homo genus is poor, the earliest definitive H. habilis specimen is about 2.4 million years old.
David Frayer, KU professor emeritus of anthropology, is lead author on a recent study published in the Journal of Evolution that found striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil 1.8 million years old moved from left to right, indicating the earliest evidence in the fossil record for right - handedness.
But fossils that old and older look either ape or protohuman, so some paleontologists argue for a split as far back as 7 million years ago.
«This is astonishingly young for a species that still displays primitive characteristics found in fossils about 2 million years old,» says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
Fossils of a new species of «bird - eating» spider which is 240 million years old have been discovered in eastern France, more than doubling the length of the fossil record for these creatures.
Chinese paleontologist Xing Lida has gained fame for his collection of stunning amber - encased fossils, including one specimen holding a 99 - million - year - old baby dinosaur tail and another preserving the remains of an equally ancient baby bird.
If the fossils are, in fact, older members of the tiny hobbit lineage, then Flores seems to have been their home for hundreds of thousands of years.
This 360 - million - year - old fossil provides a snapshot of the moment our fishy ancestors hauled themselves out of the water and began trading fins for limbs.
For example, fossils thought to be on the human side of the split such as Ardipithecus kadabba from Ethiopia and Sahelanthropus from Chad were 6 million years old — or, in the case of the Chad fossil, perhaps 7 million years old.»
Fossils from Spain's «pit of bones «have yielded 430,000 - year - old nuclear DNA that reveals Neanderthals in the making - and the need for a rethink over our origins
There's no evidence for those effects in 400,000 - year - old hominin fossils, he says.
Two years ago, a graduate student searching for fossils at a desolate site in Ethiopia made an exciting discovery: He found a 2.8 - million - year - old jawbone of a hominin in the sand.
«As many plants as there are, it's not enough,» Kelly adds, noting that older, fossil fuel — fired plants would have to be shut down in order for renewables to make up the required percentage.
Fossil fuel emissions could soon make it impossible for radiocarbon dating to distinguish new materials from artefacts that are hundreds of years old.
Fossil stromatolites are the oldest evidence for life on Earth — they first appeared 3.7 billion years ago!»
«Whale fossil, 17 million years old, provides first exact date for East Africa's puzzling uplift.»
The mountains are home to Denisova cave, famous for the 2010 discovery of 50,000 - year - old fossils of a new kind of human, the Denisovans.
The 505 - million - year - old fossil called Kooteninchela deppi (pronounced Koo - ten - ee - che - la depp - eye), which is a distant ancestor of lobsters and scorpions, was named after the actor Johnny Depp for his starring role as Edward Scissorhands — a movie about an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands.