Sentences with phrase «fossil skull»

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Other major finds included Sts 5, a superb fossil skull, and Sts 14, a partial skeleton which consisted of much of a pelvis, femur, and vertebral column and proved convincingly that australopithecines had walked upright.

This find is a nearly complete fossil skull of a «robust» early human, and has been assigned to the species Australopithecus aethiopicus.

The study was based upon casts and computer reconstructions of the one hobbit fossil skull available (brains do not fossilize) compared to nine microcephalic brains and ten normal human brains.

Humans and ancient apes looked a lot alike 7 million years ago, they say, and some features of the fossil skull are more ape - like than human - like.

The fossil skull found, nicknamed Toumai is as old as any hominid fossil found to date, yet its features appear much more human - like than those of other contenders for title of human ancestor.

The Lomekwi area where the tools were found had already produced the fossil skull of early hominin Kenyanthropus platyops by Meave and her team, and the West Turkana Archaeological Project has previously discovered the earliest artifacts from the Oldowan culture known from Kenya, and the world's oldest Acheulean handaxes.

This is what drove this assortment of collectors on to the next bird of paradise, or ichthyosaur, mole skin or fossil skull, at whatever cost.

Although H. sapiens might have emerged in East Africa, some researchers also categorize a previously discovered fossil skull from South Africa, tentatively dated to about 260,000 years ago, as H. sapiens.

Researchers using Los Alamos» unique neutron - imaging and high - energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74 - million - year - old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest - resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done.

A fossil skull belonging to a whale that could both filter feed and catch large prey reveals the first step in this process.

«The fossil skull of Erlikosaurus andrewsi is one - of - a-kind and the most complete and best preserved example known for this group of dinosaurs.

A fossil skull fragment from 1.8 million years ago has been rebuilt in a computer and is shedding light on the evolution of our early ancestors

The fossil skull throws light on that period of ape evolution.

A study of a fossil skull of S. ensidens revealed two holes at the top of its head.

It is a fact is that fossil skulls have been found that are intermediate in appearance between humans and modern apes.

We've had 3D - printed aeroplanes, guns and fossil skulls — but these are the first copies of real human hearts.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

The displays will include replicas of 76 fossil skulls representing the human family tree as well as life - size reconstructions of faces of early human species.

Crocodiles and birds have air sacks in that cavity, and those air sacks leave the same characteristic microscopic marks Witmer found on fossil skulls.

Fossil skulls of two ancient, mammal - like reptiles suggest that natural selection for a keener sense of smell was the initial spur behind bigger brains in early mammals, according to a report online today in Science.

Philip Mannion of Imperial College London points out that we do not yet have good fossil skulls of the largest titanosaurs, so the tooth might simply belong to one of them.

Inspired by the success of his experiments with modern mammals, Hillenius decided to do a systematic search for turbinal ridges in the fossil skulls of mammallike reptiles.

Many anthropologists have concluded that fossil skulls from Europe show a steady progression from pre-Neandertal to Neandertal features.

The first fossil skulls of Homo erectus, 1.8 million years ago, had brains averaging a bit larger than 600 ml.

They point to the mix of sapiens and erectus features in the two recently discovered Chinese fossil skulls which virtually proves that erectus and sapiens are members of the same species and the taxon Homo erectus should be laid to rest.94

Not exact matches

The discovery of Microraptor brought him to finally concede that dromaeosaurs are birds» closest relatives... Dr. Martin's anatomical interpretations of fossils, including the pelvic girdles of Archaeopteryx and Microraptor, and the skull of Sinornithosaurus, were idiosyncratic.

A 195,000 year old fossil from the Omo 1 site in Ethiopia shows the beginnings of the skull changes that we associate with modern people, including a rounded skull case and possibly a projecting chin.

Critics of evolution are fond of citing Piltdown Man (a human skull with an ape jaw) or Nebraska Man (the tooth of a fossil pig).

Anning was no more than 13 years old when she found her first notable fossil, in 1812: the fossilized body matching the Ichthyosaurus skull her older brother had uncovered the previous year.

«Imagine a cow - sized, plant - eating reptile with a knobby skull and bony armor down its back,» said co-author Linda Tsuji of the Royal Ontario Museum, who discovered the fossils in Niger along with Sidor and a team of paleontologists in 2003 and 2006.

But a new study that used CT scans to probe three - dimensionally preserved fossil fish skulls shakes up the fish family tree by concluding that the emergence of polypterids occurred much later than researchers had thought.

The skull was not just that of any old mammal, but of a much sought - after «missing link» in the primate fossil record.

A skull and other fossils from northeastern Australia belong to a new species in the extinct family of marsupial lions.

Scientists first unearthed the creature's fossils, including limb bones and a severely crushed skull, from carbon - rich rocks around a decade ago.

Well - preserved fossils of an ancient fish called Psaroepis romeri reveal that this 20 - centimeter - long minipredator, which prowled the seas between 410 million and 415 million years ago, had enamel in its scales and its skull — but not its teeth, according to a paper by Ahlberg and colleagues in the 24 September issue of Nature.

But detailed study of the newly discovered fossil's teeth, jaws and skull shows it to be the oldest member yet found of the order Proboscidea, of which elephants are the only living survivors.

«Print a 200 - million - year - old dinosaur «fossil» in your own home: CT - scan study makes it possible to 3 - D print and study the skull of the dinosaur species Massospondylus that roamed South Africa 200 million years ago in your own home.»

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

Most hominid fossils are in much worse shape than the skull of Homo floresiensis.

In 1991, William Hammer, an NSF - funded researcher hunting for fossils in Antarctica's Beardmore Glacier region, discovered this skull (left) and a large femur, which belonged to a completely unknown species of therapod — a bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur whose members include the more familiar tyrannosaurs and Velociraptors.

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

Found in Ethiopia, this roughly 195,000 - year - old skull known as Omo I is the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil.

These lower jaw fossils, combined with reexamination of other specimens, show that the skull of Acdestis was different from other palaeothentids.

Dr. Jordan Mallon in the museum's fossil collections with three of the skulls he examined for his study on niche partitioning.

Insights are also expected from back, forearm and finger fossils of two or three ancient apes, possibly also from N. alesi, found near the skull site in 2015.

One side of a slab contains a fossil's body and a mold of its skull; the other reveals the skull and a mold of the body.

However, the history of the more modern Homo erectus, big - brained and fully upright, has been told mainly through skull fossils, says Sileshi Semaw, a palaeoanthroplogist at the Stone Age Institute in Gosport, Indiana, who led the team.

Comparisons with other African ape fossils indicate that the infant's skull belongs to a new species that the researchers named Nyanzapithecus alesi.

Geologist Edmonds and amateur fossil hunter Kevan Sheehan with «The Dorset Pliosaur» skull Sheehan found.