Sentences with phrase «fossils of other animals»

They also removed fossils of other animals and of plants.

Not exact matches

1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of dead animal / plant life from times long ago.

Although fossils of the two species of marine worm, Cricocosmia jinnigensis and Mafangscolex sinensi, have been found before, these are the first reported examples to show other animals attached to them.

The fossils, discovered by a team including researchers from the University of Leicester, show two species of marine worms with other, smaller worm - like animals attached to the outer surface of their body.

Other fossils had hinted that mammals might not just have been small terrestrial creatures until the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago but the beaver - tailed animal definitively pushes back the date of mammalian adaptation to an aquatic lifestyle by at least 100 million years.

To properly age and classify the Mongolian fossil Maelestes gobiensis, estimated to be between 71 million and 75 million years old, Wible and his team compared it with 409 features culled from the skulls, teeth and skeletal remains of other animals ranging in age from present - day mammals to those estimated to have lived over 100 million years ago.

Other fossils found in Mongolia also seem to belong to this new species, and further flesh out the life history of these animals.

Checking the types of animal bones at other early Homo fossil sites out of Africa could show whether the mix of prey species changed when hominins colonized a new site, supporting a «naïve prey» effect.

When Schweitzer first began working with the fossils, the specimens looked like others she had encountered, in which all the organic material has ordinarily decayed and been replaced by rock within a million years of the animal's death.

Finds such as the newly discovered Birgeria species and the fossils of other vertebrates now show that so - called apex predators (animals at the very top of the food chain) already lived early after the mass extinction.

Over thousands of years, the calcium phosphate in an animal's skeleton combines with other minerals in the ground, forming fossils that can survive for hundreds of millions of years.

An international team of scientists this morning rappelled 26 meters into a cave containing thousands of Ice Age mammoth, dire wolf, lion, cheetah, and other animal fossils dating back 100,000 years, NPR reports.

Nevertheless, Wogelius says that he and his co-workers are now approaching numerous museums and other institutions in an attempt to expand their fossil database and also compare the pigment patterns of ancient specimens with those of living animals in hopes of eventually deciphering the ancient colors.

Plenty of gazelle meat, with the occasional wildebeest, zebra and other game and perhaps the seasonal ostrich egg, says Teresa Steele, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Davis, who analyzed animal fossils at Jebel Irhoud.

The team, which included other geochemists, palaeoecologists and geologists from UCL and the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as the Geological Survey of Namibia, analysed the chemical elemental composition of rock samples from the ancient seafloor in the Nama Group - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia animals.

Although other fossils of these species have been found, these are the first reported examples to show other animals attached to them.

While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.

Precipitation levels are difficult to quantify but were adequate to maintain flowing rivers in England throughout the year.These results are in agreement with the presence of other fossils, both plants and animals, in the same deposits.

However, because of the nature of the chamber sediments and the lack of other animal remains at the site, the researchers have not yet been able to nail down the exact age of these fossils, without which «there's no way we can judge the evolutionary significance of this find,» Rick Potts, director of the human origins program at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the discovery, told the Associated Press.

Based on the position of fossils in the layers of the Earth's crust, paleontologists can determine which animals predate other animals and which animals lived at the same time.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.

A fossil is the remains or traces of a once - living plant or animal that was preserved in rock or other material before the beginning of recorded history Carbon - 14, 14 C, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.

But emissions have two parts: One is the pollutants that are harmful to people, animals, oceans, etcetera; the other is CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that are generally considered to be the cause of global warming, which is generally considered to be fact, and that CO2 is produced in direct proportion to how much fossil fuel is burned in cars, as well as buildings, locomotives, planes, and ships.

- character creation lets you choose skin color, face, eye color and haircut - later in the game you can get glasses, pants, shoes and other stuff - start off by meeting Tom Nook and his posse of Happy Home employees - this includes Lyle the Otter and Digby the Dog, who give advice and help to keep the game moving forward - Lottie the Otter is Lyle's niece and handles the front desk in the game - she welcomes you every time you boot up the game and tells you what to do next - gameplay starts off with placing furniture, but quickly evolves into something more - place a house on the world map and cycle through seasons to see what you like - house can modified with different roofs, doors, colors and more - every animal unlocks new furniture for you to use - completing a lot of requests is vital to getting a lot of content - characters will react to everything that you place and remove in the house - three pieces of furniture must be in or outside of the house and these need to implemented into the final design - if you don't follow this rule, your animal customer will not approve - add wallpaper, carpets, lamps, signs, music covers, paintings and much more - by completing special objectives in the office, which you pay for with Play Coins, you can even expand the feature set - set background sounds, choose curtains, change up furniture, display fossils and get a bigger variety of fish and paintings.

2001: Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Golden Sun, Luigi's Mansion 2002: Eternal Darkness, Legend of Starfy (Japan) 2003: Mario & Luigi RPG series, WarioWare, Baiten Kaitos 2004: Mario vs DK 2005: Geist, Battalion Wars, Trace Memory 2006: Wii Sports, Drill Dozer, Electroplankton, Chibi Robo, Elite Beat Agents, Excite Truck (debatable revival of old IP that is different than 80's installments) 2007: Wii Play, Diasaster: Day of Crisis (not released in NA), Hotel Dusk 2008: Wii Fit, Wii Music, Art Style series which consists of dozens of games that are all new IPs in their own right, Fossil Fighter, Endless Ocean 2009: Rhythm Heaven 2010: Art Academy, Glory of Heracles (in NA), Line Attack Heroes (in JP), Wii Party, Flingsmash, Fluidity 2011: Steel Diver, Xenoblade, Pushmo 2012: Sakura Samurai, Dillon's Rolling Western, The Last Story, Nintendo Land, Spirit Camera (debatable spin off of other IP) 2013: Pandora's Tower, Kersploosh!

The exhibition venue - a museum dedicated to the understanding of the natural world and man's place in it — made it possible for viewers to enjoy works by Arthur Dove, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, Paul Klee and numerous others before investigating the permanent displays of fossils, animals, minerals, rocks, plants and human artifacts.

Steve Bolger (# 5) herein, as well as in other blogs elsewhere in this series, keeps referencing ``... that some animal will burn up a billion years of fossil carbon deposits in 300 years.»

Evidence for evolution was readily observable at a wide range of spatial scales early on, specifically, fossil evidence at one end, and the products of animal breeders and other short - term selections at the other.

That's bad news for the climate, because the ocean is responsible for absorbing at least one quarter of the CO2 that humans load into the air through fossil fuel burning and other activities — and it is the action of foraminifera and other tiny shell - building animals, along with plants like algae that lock it away safely for millennia.

By replacing animal and human muscle and low - density energy sources like wood, dung, and other biofuels, and low - density, intermittent wind and solar, fossil and nuclear fuels have freed people from the basic tasks of survival to devote time and bodily energy to other occupations.

25X more efficient than CO 2 Methane is produced by bacteria breaking down wastes in oxygen - free environments, animals digesting plant matter, rice paddies (and other natural wetlands), and the burning of fossil fuels.

Factory Farmed Fuel Not Solution to Fossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being repFossil Fuel Addiction The big essential problem here (apart from financials, we'll leave that aside) is this: Even though this fuel is utilizing waste products, something normally considered a good thing, that waste is generated by factory farming, something at least as bad — both statistically in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution and ethically in terms of animal welfare — as the fossil fuels being repfossil fuels being replaced.

It's only when deforestation and other land use changes made a net shift of carbon in the short term carbon cycle from plants back into the atmosphere, that humans began to make a net positive return of CO2 into the atmosphere (although deforestation is essentially reversible in principle), and it's very true to point out that industrial scale animal husbandry with its high cost in fossil - fuel - derived energy does mean that what might otherwise be a relatively closed system of cycling CO2 from the atmosphere through plants and then animals and back to the atmosphere, does become net positive with respect to CO2 emissions.

During the past 500 years or so, human activities have released mercury from its relatively stable and water - insoluble form (cinnabar) in rocks and soil through mining, fossil fuel combustion, and other activities, and so have increased the portion of mercury that is actively cycling through the atmosphere, surface waters, plants, and animals as it changes chemical and physical form.