Sentences with phrase «fossil beds in»

The captive men's shovels exposed the oldest flowering plant fossil beds in North America, where the new plant species was ultimately found.

That's in line with other fossil beds in Europe and South America that show prosauropod dinosaurs were gradually becoming larger and more common at that time.

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

Paleontologist Paulo César Manzig, from the Universidade do Contestado, stumbled upon the ancient fossil bed in 2011 while doing research for a book on Brazilian fossils.

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Mar. 13, 2013 — Canada's 505 million year - old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery - this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti - shaped creature.

Mar. 13, 2013 — Canada's 505 million year - old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery — this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti - shaped creature.

Formed over 45 million years ago, Baltic amber is an organic substance, a «fossil resin» produced by pine trees which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

Baltic amber is fossil resin produced by pine trees, which grew in Northern Europe - from southern regions of the present day Scandinavia and nearby regions of the bed of the Baltic Sea.

It was March 29, 1932, midway through the Third East African Archaeological Expedition, and it had rained so long and so hard that it took an hour to drive the four miles from the campsite in Kanjera, near the shore of Lake Victoria, to the Kanam West fossil beds.

That the fossil was found in what was once an ancient lake bed suggests that this particular rodent may have made an unfortunate mistake — it may accidentally have landed on the lake and drowned.

For over a decade, the University of Alaska Museum has been expanding its estimate of the richness and extent of Mesozoic vertebrate fossil beds and trackways in arctic Alaska.

Enigmatic anatomy Frogs are plentiful in today's China but are rare in the fossil beds of Liaoning.

«Those Scottish fossil beds have four or five known genera of ray - finned fish in them.

On nearby public land, these same beds have yielded scores of fossils of dinosaurs, but no paleontologists are known to have scoured this section of rangeland, settled in the late 1800s.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

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.

Fossils unearthed from a 30 - to 40 - centimeter - thick bone bed in southern Portugal suggest the creature was more than 2 meters long, weighed as much as 100 kilograms, and had a broad flat head the size and shape of a toilet seat.

Discoveries in more recent years of more complete skeletons in rare fossil beds that preserve exceptional details first challenged this idea about 10 years ago.

The fossil plant, which resembles a modern bleeding heat, was found in a fossil bed at Dutch Gap, VA..

If we were to find a flying sloth, it would be about as unexpected as this, says Greg McDonald, a paleontologist at the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho.

Dinosaurs make up one - third of all vertebrate genera found in the fossil beds, and all three major dinosaur groups had already appeared — not bad for a time when the beasts were thought to be rare.

Located in Republic, WA, Stonerose offers educational and fossil collecting opportunities from a world famous Eocene lake beds.

The fossil bed found in Brazil contained hundreds of bones from roughly 50 individual pterosaurs, including partial skulls and jawbones, according to the study.

To that end, with the permission of the National Museums of Kenya, she gave them a fragment of a 4 - million - year - old fossil from a buffalo - like animal recovered in the excavation of a bone bed at Allia Bay, on the east side of Lake Turkana.

Hominin fossils were also recovered from the same horizon in this bone bed.

DE is, as mentioned, a white powder naturally occurring from the fossils of diatoms (a type of algae found in river bed and lake beds).

Plentyoffish is 100 % Free, unlike paid A chance discovery in 1955 revealed an extensive fossil bed dating from the Devonian Period.

While it's almost two and half hours away from Bend, the area included in the Sheep Rock Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument was fascinating to explore.

This Fossil, Oregon bed and breakfast is in a historic 1910 Sears Roebuck Ranch House with six pristine ranch style guest rooms, and a spacious living and dining area.

The shells in the fossil bed at Punta Baja are said to be as old as the sea itself.

In order to become one with nature, they find their last place to stay in a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their laboIn order to become one with nature, they find their last place to stay in a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their laboin a bed, becoming fossils by being covered by black coal, the product of their labor.

Nader said, «We do not need nuclear power... We have a far greater amount of fossil fuels in this country than we're owning up to... the tar sands... oil out of shale... methane in coal beds...» Sierra Club consultant Amory Lovins said, «Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining.»

Given evolution over the past 500 million years when virtually all modern emerged and radiated largely occurred while the planet had no polar ice caps and atmospheric CO2 up to ten times current level, and the planet was green from pole to pole, and life did so well it was able to sequester huge amounts of energy in fossil fuel beds.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase.

Their lying in bed, pursuing their ongoing long - term amorous relationship with big business and the fossil fuel industries.

Anyone expressing such views is in bed with the devil (fossil fuel companies) or is a brainwashed dupe doing the devil's bidding.