Sentences with phrase «fossil remains»

During the mid-Cretaceous Period, 120 - 90 million years ago, fossil remains of plants and animals believed to inhabit warm environments, were found at much higher latitudes.

a) start off by making a hypothesis concerning the color of crows and how this impacts their habits b) based on the hypothesis, create model scenarios to simulate the color and behavior of crows c) investigate fossil remains of pre-historic Archaeopteryx d) declare that the paleo - avain findings check closely with the model e) validate the model scenarios by comparing them with one another f) declare that the hypothesis has been confirmed by the model simulations g) project that (if unabated by exorbitantly costly measures involving major payments to dictatorships in the developing world) black crows will destroy all other species plus our planet by 2100 h) ensure that «crow disaster scenario» is conveyed to public by a doomsday - hungry» media

The fossil remains point towards a unique find of animals living in Britian during a warmer climate, never previously recorded.»

The newest species benefits from having more fossil remains than most, so we can hope to see more remains in the future, giving us better ideas on how these amazing birds looked, evolved and why they died out, millions of years ago.

If the fossil remains had been exposed during earlier warm periods they would most likely have decomposed, depending on the duration of the warm period of course.

«All he can really say is what he has, that in his area of glaciers the temps were higher during the early Holocene by the fossil remains of trees which subsequent cooling killed off, but he has not shown that temps were subsequently never warmer until present — these fossil remains could well have been uncovered during such times as the lesser warming of the MWP»

All he can really say is what he has, that in his area of glaciers the temps were higher during the early Holocene by the fossil remains of trees which subsequent cooling killed off, but he has not shown that temps were subsequently never warmer until present — these fossil remains could well have been uncovered during such times as the lesser warming of the MWP but conditions there not conducive to re-establishment of trees before the next cooling period arrived.

He has not taken these into account to make that statement, which he arrives at by his work showing conditions were hotter earlier in the Holocene by the fossil remains he's found.

«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»

Before now, if palaeontologists had found the fossil remains of such a complex community of organisms, they would probably assume that the site was free of the ice shelf when these animals were living there.

An artist's illustration of Titanoboa cerrejonensi, derived from fossil remains found in Colombia.

The process is suggested by nature herself, in fossil remains that reveal evidence of the origins of life and clues to the pathways of evolution.

The island scrub jay is not known to have occurred anywhere besides Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands historically, and no fossil remains have been found so far on the other Channel islands (Curry & Delaney 2002 [13]-RRB-.

On July 21, 1932, Hoffmann joined a group of scientists on an expedition to California's Channel Islands to explore San Miguel Island for fossil remains of the prehistoric pygmy mammoth.

Visit Atapuerca, near the town of Burgos, where the oldest known hominin fossil remains in Europe have been unearthed.

DE is a mineral substance formed by the fossil remains of prehistoric algae.

As evidenced by fossil remains, the Great Pyrenees (or a close ancestor) was brought to the Pyrenees mountain range of southern France sometime between 1800 to 1000 BC.

Thanks to carbon - 14 proof from fossil remains found, we have an an approximate way of dating early Australopithecus, which appeared about 4 million years ago.

In this section we will explore the use of carbon dating to determine the age of fossil remains.

Fossil remains and archeological findings provide strong evidence on the food habits of Paleolithic ancestors.

The fossil remains of early humans that dated back to the neolithic period showed signs of osteoporosis, arthritis, dental caries etc..

Most fossil remains are just bones, so how do we go from the bones to the soft tissues?

The same tissue recently showed up in the fossil remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

A professional paleontologist has identified a new species of coelacanth from 100 million - year - old fossil remains found in the fossil - rich Duck Creek Formation,...

For the first two decades of developing techniques to study what we call «ancient DNA» (the DNA of dead and fossil remains) we only obtained fragments of genetic material.

We took a half - day trip to Area 8 (about 30 min from TBI Ileret), which is an area rich in fossil remains.

From Portugal in the southwest across Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia, Northern China, South Korea and Japan up to Northeastern Siberia, and thence to the American Midwest and Eastern Canada, from the shelf regions of the Arctic Ocean and Northwestern Europe to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea and to the mountains of Crimea: the fossil remains of woolly mammoths have been found everywhere.

Earlier researchers have suggested Neanderthal fossil remains indicate differences from region to region and this study, conducted by researchers from CNRS in France, working with the mitochondrial DNA of 12 Neanderthals, ``... confirms the presence of three separate sub-groups and suggests the existence of a fourth group in western Asia.

The fossil remains of a 3.2 million years old hominid skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia (November 24th).

The animal fossil remains bore signs of modification by human hands, stone hammers, and anvils.

Only during their last days in the field, after dreadful walks through knee - deep mud, they made a truly exciting discovery in 66 million year - old rocks: The fossil remains of a particularly large skull of a Mosasaur, a giant sea lizard.

Investigate the composition, structure, and history of Earth's crust through the collection, examination, measurement, and classification of soils, minerals, rocks, or fossil remains.

Fossil remains of a late Pleistocene biped with diminutive stature and a brain size found in early Homo or even Australopithecus (and quickly nicknamed «Hobbit») were discovered on the island.

«Today, we can only find fossil remains of this tortoise, which reached a length of about half a meter,» says Professor Uwe Fritz, director of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden, and he continues, «For the first time, we examined the Bahama Tortoise's genetic material and were able to determine that these animals, who became extinct approximately 850 years ago, were closely related to Galapagos Tortoises and the Chaco Tortoise from South America.»

The stature of S1 falls within the range of modern Homo sapiens maximum values; it also fits the available Homo erectus sensu lato estimates based on fossil remains (Ruff and Walker, 1993) and on footprints (Bennett et al., 2009)(Figure 12).

Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.

Fossil remains attributable directly to Inia spp. have been reported from Pleistocene age freshwater deposits of the Rio Madeira Formation in Brazil (Cozzuol, 2010).

«In the case of La Ferrassie 1, these approaches have made it possible to identify new fossil remains and pathological conditions of the original skeleton as well as confirm that this individual was deliberately buried.

«Our understanding of these organisms rests upon interpreting their fossil remains,» said Gaines.

Steve: You know, there is the traveling exhibit where the actual fossil remains of Lucy are going around the country and that's in New York for the next couple of weeks, and I actually went to see it Friday night and it's an amazing thing to see because those are really her bones, you know, and she is small.

The only hominin fossil remains in the area dating to that time are from Australopithecus afarensis.

So the world of paleoanthropology, the search for human fossil remains — it is like harder than ever right now.

Most of the senior members of the Chorora research team also belong to the Middle Awash project team that has recovered the fossil remains of at least eight hominid species, including some of the earliest hominids, spanning nearly 6 million years.

The research, published in Nature Communications, examined preserved fossil remains of coccolithophores from a period of climate warming and ocean acidification that occurred around 56 million years ago — the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)-- and provides a much - needed long - term perspective of coccolithophore response to ocean acidification.

In a paper just published in Nature Communications, they present evidence that malformed fossil remains of marine plankton from the late Silurian (415 million years ago) contain highly elevated concentrations of heavy metals, such as iron, lead, and arsenic.

The Bristol team are still looking for fossil remains of the rest of Pseudooides life cycle, including the «medusa» jellyfish stage itself.

But last May, paleobotanists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and at Jilin University in Changchun, China, announced fossil remains of «probably the most complete, oldest flowering plant in the world,» says David Dilcher, a scientist who analyzed the 125 - million - year - old fossils.

To look for mammal fossil remains, Krause and his team washed sediment through a screen and then sorted through the leftovers under a microscope.

Swiss and U.S. American researchers led by the Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich have discovered the fossil remains of one of the earliest large - sized predatory fishes of the Triassic period: an approximately 1.8 - meter - long primitive bony fish with long jaws and sharp teeth.

Its fossil remains were recovered from Cretaceous Period (70 - 100 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Tanzania.