Sentences with phrase «from paleontology»

From Paleontology to biodiversity, from geology and minerals to energy, from birds to the human body, from engineering to astronomy; the galleries feature a broad and diverse set of scientific matters.

Then, Vice President of Community & School Engagement of the Perot Museum, Teresa Lenling, discusses the stand - out exhibits at the museum and how they cover a multitude of interests, from paleontology to space.

Unearthing Careers from Paleontology to Forensic Science.

And while Neill suggested in an interview last year that his Dr. Alan Grant is «retired from paleontology» and «sick to death of dinosaurs and running,» Dern says she'd love to reprise her Jurassic Park character Ellie Sattler in a future Jurassic World film.

Taking nutrition advice from paleontology...

From paleontology to ecology, Denver's new Discovery Zone introduces kids to various fields of science.

Yeakel created a timeline based on existing records from paleontology, archaeology, and art, which picks up about where the fossils leave off and zooms in on a much shorter time scale.

From the editors of Discover comes a comprehensive source for facts, descriptions, and trivia on everything from paleontology to space exploration.

The evidence from paleontology, genetics and other evolutionary sciences is also against the existence of any immanent force or vital principle directing evolution toward the production of specified kinds of organisms (emphases added).

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Probably you've moved on from this post, and I will too — but I don't think by «been there, done that» you meant «read about and understood many things about evolutionary biology and paleontology».

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

These theories are supported by many independent sources of evidence from geology, paleontology, genetics, physiology, animal behavior, etc., etc..

There is nothing in the theory of evolution, nor in astronomy, or in geology, nor in paleontology, or any other branch of the sciences which contradicts Christianity, or any other type of theism (except Mormonism — we know scientifically that the Indian peoples of the Americas are not descended from the Jews — which is a key point of belief for them, much more central than there having been a literal Garden of Eden is for classical Christianity or Judaism).

Evolution has been relentlessly tested and confirmed and is further validated in direct applications ranging from medicine to agriculture to engineering (the same is true of all the other relevant scientific disciplines which creationism requires to be so fundamentally flawed as to be effectively useless, i.e. physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, astronomy, etc).

In the sixteenth century astronomy, in the seventeenth century microbiology, in the eighteenth geology and paleontology, in the nineteenth Darwin's biology all grotesquely extended the world - frame and sent churchmen scurrying for cover in ever smaller, shadowy nooks, little gloomy ambiguous caves in the psyche where even now neurology is cruelly harrying them, gouging them out of the multifolded brain like wood lice from under a lumber pile.

What is the only thing capable of making 40 % of the country fvcking stupid enough to think the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with one man, one woman and a talking snake: (i) paleontology (ii) archeology (iii) biology; or (iv) religion It is only acceptable as an adult to believe Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

One issue here is that few, if any, have the time or expertise to examine all of the relevant data from all the relevant fields, that is, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, organismal and molecular biology, ecology, etc, etc..

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

But where Bergson's theory of matter is close in many respects to contemporary cosmology and physics, his biological theory appears not only far removed from present biochemistry, taxonomy and paleontology, but devoid of content.

«Creationists may prefer not to think to much about the conspiratorial implications of what they're arguing, but creationism just won't work without the actual existence of such a «fraud so complex and extensive it involved every field from archaeology, paleontology, geology and genetics to biology, chemistry and physics.»

To celebrate National Fossil Day, here are some specimens from CAS / PNNM's paleontology collection.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

The new study, a collaborative effort by groups led by Professor Gert Wörheide (Chair of Paleontology and Geobiology at LMU) and Dr. Davide Pisani (Bristol University, UK) reaffirms the traditional view that the sponges were the first phylum to diverge from the common ancestor of metazoans.

Anchiornis possesses well - developed feathers on all four limbs, and comes from a «critical stage along the line to birds», says Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Eric Scott, curator of paleontology at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, Calif., suggests it was something else: namely, the immigration of bison from Eurasia.

Schachat and her team combed through fossil information from a public paleontology database and realized there was something special about many of the insect fossils that came after the gap: they had wings.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

His influential studies have spanned diverse disciplines, from developmental biology to paleontology to optical physics.

It definitively would have stood out from the herd during the Late Cretaceous,» said lead author Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

By all the rules of paleontology, such traces of life should have long since drained from the bones.

«However, our results indicate that warm - bloodedness could have been created 20 to 30 million years earlier,» explains Prof. Martin Sander from the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

During the past dozen years, crews from the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and several other partner institutions (e.g., the Utah Geologic Survey, the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology, and the Bureau of Land Management) have unearthed a new assemblage of more than a dozen dinosaurs in GSENM.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

Biologist Sonja Wedmann, then at the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Bonn, analyzed the fossil after it was dug up from oil shale deposits in what was once a small lake formed by volcanic activity.

The Moabosaurus discovery was published this week by the University of Michigan's Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology.

The teeth came from a fossil - rich area called Cabin Fork in Wyoming and are part of a substantial collection at the University of Florida built in part by study co-author Jonathan Bloch, an associate curator of vertebrate paleontology there.

The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.

The study of ancient proteins, paleoproteomics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that draws from chemistry and molecular biology as much as paleontology, paleoanthropology and archaeology.

But «Itchy» was no reptile: The animal, known from two partial skulls and described in July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, was actually an ancient mammal relative.

In their first paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form of collagen abundant in modern animal bones.

The study, «A new clade of putative plankton - feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States,» is published in the September issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Evolutionary biologists uncover the history of life on Earth from geology, paleontology, botany, zoology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, genetics, and so on.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Conodonts, tiny eel - like creatures that lived from 520 million to 205 million years ago and were our earliest vertebrate relatives, have long been one of paleontology's great enigmas.

Those are just some conclusions from new reconstructions of the primate common ancestor, presented October 27 at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The newly described species (artist's representation shown), which lived between 220 million and 230 million years ago, was one of the largest in a group of amphibians known as metoposaurs and is the first known in this region from well - preserved fossils, the researchers report online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

From space exploration to medicine, technology, paleontology and the environment, we've got every field covered, and our countdown puts these discoveries in context so you can understand the bigger picture.

As Mark Norell, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, puts it, dinosaur artwork «is a fantastic leap from what we know.»

Back in December 2007, archaeologist Zhan - Yang Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing was wrapping up his field season in the town of Lingjing, near the city of Xuchang in the Henan province in China (about 4000 kilometers from the Denisova Cave), when he spotted some beautiful quartz stone tools eroding out of the sediments.

At the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting, held here from 17 to 20 October, a researcher argued that what were thought to be two unique dinosaur species are in fact juveniles of different ages that would have grown up to be another species, bony - headed Pachycephalosaurus.