Sentences with phrase «fossil remnants»

Bargaining both commissions, the fossil remnants of sub ‑ agency, still goes on in Ontario.

A specimen of Allognathosuchus, thought to be the species to which the fossil remnants found by Dawson and West belong.

COS detected silicon, carbon, and aluminum, indicating that the gas is enriched in the heavy elements produced inside stars and represents the fossil remnants of star formation.

A research team led by University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee paleoecologist Erik Gulbranson has found the fossil remnants of a Permian - age forest on the frozen...

If this way of forming is common, then these black holes may be the fossil remnants of the gigantic stars that are the most ancient in the universe.

These common elements are found in most galaxies and represent the fossil remnants of stellar evolution.

Not exact matches

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

How can ANYONE say the earth is 6000 - 10,000 years AND ignore the evidence of fossils, bones and remnants of minerals from millions of years ago.

Instead, he sees all the fossils in these caves as disparate remnants of a succession of small populations.

Mars lost its global magnetic field billions of years ago and now just has remnant «fossil» magnetic fields embedded in certain regions of its surface.

And it gave us an opportunity to talk about how the planet changes and evolves and [how] what is the driest place on Earth today hasn't always been the driest place on Earth and that those high desert lakes were remnants of when the sea is used to be there, marine fossils and coral in that high desert.

When the team bombarded the fossils with charged particles and then analyzed the particles that were knocked from the surface (a technique called time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry), they chemically identified the remnants of eumelanin, a pigment that typically lends a black or brown color to skin or feathers.

VLF waves might reveal «fossil» galaxies that were once highly active; they could also be used to map ancient supernova remnants in the Milky Way.

Ninety percent of the world's fossil fuels are contained in these remnants of swamps.

Next time you catch a cold, consider this as your sinuses clog and your eyes burn: the viruses now tormenting you may be living fossils that carry molecular remnants of some of the most ancient life forms on the planet.

For example, the Antarctic icefish, a pale, near - transparent inhabitant of the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, has not only lost its ancestors» power to make oxygen - binding red hemoglobin (which it does not need in the cold oxygen - rich waters) but the two genes that code for hemoglobin have also gone extinct: one has disappeared, and the other remains as a non-coding «molecular fossil,» a useless remnant that hints at past use but still resides in the icefish DNA.

Veins of the husk are visibly detailed on the fossils, and scientists were even able to identify compacted remnants of the berry, which turned to coal during the fossilization process.

Seeing the remnants of the skeletons started me on a quest to document all the quarries in Mongolia that I could find where these fossils had been dug up.

Now that they've established the relationship between ear structure and movement in living animals, the researchers can make predictions about the motion of extinct creatures by measuring the bony canal remnants in fossils.

Now, the exquisitely preserved fossil of a tiny mammal from the time of the dinosaurs reveals a variety of soft tissues, including skin, fur, and spines; even remnants of its external ear were fossilized.

Although much older mammalian fossils include remnants of hair, Luo notes, those structures are mere impressions and don't preserve the detail seen in the newly described fossil.

TINY TOMATILLO A 52 - million - year - old fossil of a tomatillo includes the plant's papery outer sheath, and remnants of the blackened berry, which has since turned to coal.

«Under subzero conditions, the last remnants of DNA in a fossil could disappear after 6.8 million years»

Just as paleontologists use fossil bones to date when a species originated, paleovirologists can use remnants of viral genes scattered around the genomes of the organisms they infect.

To try to pin an age on these fossil genes and determine when these ancient infections happened, Taylor and his co-authors — virologist Jeremy Bruenn, and bioinformatics specialist Robert Leach, both also of SUNY Buffalo — compared the viral remnants in different species and found they were nearly identical, indicating that they infected mammals only once early in evolution, and then the viral remnants were passed down as the groups diverged.

And the remnants of these biofilm fossils showed a chemical hallmark of life.

And of course, there's the fossil record: the mineralized remnants of past life forms imprisoned in the Earth itself.

Researchers looked at 66 places on the fossil under a microscope to see if they could find remnants of melanosome shapes.

«Fossil» remnants of satellite galaxies that have collided with the Milky Way may be observed as star streams (more discussion and simulations).

This field is based on the analysis of fossils, remnants, artifacts or markings created or used by these individuals.

Fossil: Fossil, remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in Earth's crust.

From the remnants of a volcanic eruption 190,000 years ago to World Heritage Listed Fossil Fields the fascinating landscape of this sparsely populated area with its interesting history leaves an unforgettable memory.

In order to maintain some remnant of civilization with some form of law and order, we MUST quit using fossil fuels immediately.

They look like plated fossils, and it's obvious they are a remnant species from eons past.

«Soot» (upper left hand image) is actually `'» carbon» — a physical remnant of incomplete combustion of burning wood or fossil fuels.

And do this with the most difficult to extract scant remnants of squandered fossil fuels.

[There are] fossils of unfathomable age, and fantastical trees such as Cedar of Lebanon, the Phoenix Palm, and the Methuselah tree, thought to be one of the oldest trees in the World at 4,847 years of age, as well as a railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of between 5,000 to 10,000 workers over its 50 year construction, and wood is salvaged from the remnants of the iconic Atlantic City boardwalk devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.