Sentences with phrase «fragmentary fossils»

Fragmentary fossils of the new species — bones from a fairly complete skull, as well as some from one wing and leg — were discovered in 1983, when excavations began for a new terminal at Charleston International Airport.

The identification of a new species of troodontid in the Late Cretaceous of North America indicates that small dinosaur diversity in the latest Cretaceous of North America is likely underestimated due to the difficulty of identifying species from fragmentary fossils.

1825: Only the second dinosaur (after Megalosaurus) to be classified scientifically, the species's first fragmentary fossils were named by British paleontologist Gideon Mantell for the similarity of their teeth to those of iguanas.

After four years of searching, he uncovered a skullcap with a simian - like brow ridge and a large brain case, along with other fragmentary fossils, buried near the Solo River on the Indonesian island of Java.

That's why the most significant applications for ZooMS may be to identify fragmentary fossils and to learn more about ancient hominins» environments — especially the ones they created.

Dr Berry has been studying cladoxylopsids for nearly 30 years, uncovering fragmentary fossils from all over the world.

Together these studies highlight the important lessons about growth and development among our earliest and even fairly recent extinct relatives that are available from often fragmentary fossil remains.

[1] The oldest known unambiguous elephant seal fossils are fragmentary fossils of an unnamed member of the tribe Miroungini described from the late Pliocene Petane Formation of New Zealand.

Identifying new species from fragmentary fossils is a challenge.

But in 2011, researchers excavated the fragmentary fossil of a seagoing dolphin — one that anatomical comparisons reveal is, at the very least, closely related to Inia — at a site along the Caribbean coast of Panama.

Researchers reconstructed Timurlengia by combining its fragmentary fossils (shown in red) with bones from other, closely related tyrannosaurid species (in white).

For decades, fragmentary fossils had hinted that extinct birds once had wingspans of 6 metres, more than twice that of the wandering albatross, which now holds the record.

Researchers gather in the Eastern Gallery of Denisova Cave, a location that has yielded thousands of artifacts and bones, including all of the fragmentary fossils of Denisovans yet known.

This study suggests that more detailed studies of fragmentary fossils may reveal additional, currently unrecognized, species.

They are clearly the work of hominin hands, and they were found in sediments containing the fragmentary fossils of water buffalo and pigs.

Our work shows that even small, fragmentary fossils can be enormously useful.»