Sentences with phrase «from ancient teeth»

Using ordinary dental picks, Eerkens and his team at UC Davis extracted the dental plaque from the ancient teeth and then sent it to Tushingham and Gang's labs at WSU for analysis.

Researchers have worked diligently to extract information from ancient teeth.

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Personally I think that the angry God came from ancient thinking where the harshness of nature (red in tooth and claw!)

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

The ancient teeth, which feature one of the largest canines of any ancient Homo find, probably come from a member of Homo habilis,

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

An ancient vegetarian dinosaur from the French countryside has given paleontologists something to sink their teeth into.

We've been excavating a site on the beach about 10 meters from the high tide line for about 10 years, finding stone tools and ancient mammal bones and teeth.

DNA retrieved from a child's worn - down fossil tooth shows the ancient Asian roots of extinct Neandertal relatives called Denisovans, researchers say.

Brian Kemp, a molecular anthropologist at Washington State University who led the study, found that out of 3,500 Native Americans examined from a genetic database, 1.5 percent showed the same genetic pattern in their mitochondrial DNA as that found in the ancient tooth.

A new study of ancient DNA from the teeth of 101 Bronze Age skeletons has found that seven people living 2800 to 5000 years ago in Europe and Asia were infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague.

CHIPPED OFF Tooth damage sustained by Homo naledi, an ancient South African humanlike species, resulted from a diet heavy on hard or gritty objects, researchers say.

Researchers are finally getting to know one of our most mysterious ancient relatives, thanks to DNA from a 110,000 - year - old tooth.

This newly discovered species of otter, Siamogale melilutra, belongs to an ancient lineage of extinct otters that was previously known only from isolated teeth recovered from Thailand.

Thanks to a lack of dental hygiene in the Middle Ages, Warinner found a trove of ancient microbial material on teeth of four skeletons from a medieval monastery in Dalheim, Germany.

So, in 2015, «ancient DNA» was extracted from their teeth to solve the mystery.

As the authors show with examples from ancient and modern teeth, the method is valuable for understanding a health condition that today affects more than 1 billion.

Their small size, thin roots and flat crowns are typical for anatomically modern humans — H. sapiens — and the overall shape of the teeth is barely distinguishable from those of both ancient and present - day humans.

This year, geneticists at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide hope to recover DNA from a roughly 18,000 - year - old H. floresiensis tooth, which was excavated in 2009 from the Liang Bua site on the Indonesian island of Flores.

Archaeologists have long known how to extract millennia - old stories from a single tooth buried in an ancient ruin — and now geneticists have the tools to join...

A team of scientists has shown for the first time that nicotine residue can be extracted from plaque on the teeth of ancient tobacco users.

August 15, 2013 Earliest complete fossil from major group of ancient mammal discovered Flexible ankles and versatile ridged teeth were the key adaptations that allowed mutituberculates to become the most successful group of ancient mammals, as revealed with the discovery of a 160 million - year - old fossil — the earliest known complete skeleton of a multituberculate.

Latest findings support the theory that teeth in the animal kingdom evolved from the jagged scales of ancient fish, the remnants of which can be seen today embedded in the skin of sharks and skate.

Palaeontologists don't know what the Denisovans looked like, but studies of DNA recovered from their teeth and bones indicate that this ancient population contributed to the genomes of modern humans, especially Australian Aborigines, Papua New Guineans and Polynesians — suggesting that Denisovans might have roamed Asia.

Oil pulling is an ancient Ayurvedic practice that uses pure oils to pull nasty crap from your throat, gums and teeth.

He set about copying the Faun with such care and study that in a few days he had perfected it, supplying from his imagination all that was lacking in the ancient work, that is, the open mouth as of a man laughing, so that the hollow of the mouth and all the teeth could be seen.

From the ancient city and ruins of Sigiriya, the Dambulla Cave Temple, or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, there are heaps of history and culture waiting to be discovered.

Using fossil teeth, researchers from Stony Brook University have found an ancient nectar - drinking bat was probably omnivorous.