Sentences with phrase «genera found»

Dinosaurs make up one - third of all vertebrate genera found in the fossil beds, and all three major dinosaur groups had already appeared — not bad for a time when the beasts were thought to be rare.

The genera found include human fecal and vaginal bacteria as well as those that live on human skin, Fierer says.

Not exact matches

Out of the millions of fossils that have been uncovered and examined, we have yet to find a single transitional form from one genus to a different one.

Such experience no longer regards purely particular things as do the senses, but rather through intuition finds the universal genus behind them all — indeed, experience is «the universal now stabilized within the soul,» according to Aristotle in Posterior Analytics.

But the «wild rice» that's in the same botanical genus, and from which «regular rice» is descended — Oryza rufipogon and other species — is found only in Asia and Africa.

Racers who find peace and happiness at 70 mph are a breed unto themselves, although of the genus that includes bullfighters and cliffdivers.

Founded in the early 1900s, the collection consists of approximately 21 % North Carolina material as well as material from 25 states and 13 countries representing 109 genera.

Founded in the early 1900s, this collection consists of approximately 89 % North Carolina material, although 31 states, 21 countries, and more than 405 genera are represented.

Dubbed Isthminia panamensis — a blend of the genus name of today's Amazon river dolphin and the location where the new species was found — the dolphin (artist's reconstruction above) was about 2.85 meters (9.4 feet) long and is thus slightly smaller than its modern - day namesake, the researchers report online today in PeerJ.

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.

The oldest DNA from a member of our Homo genus is a fragment of genetic code from 430,000 - year - old Neanderthal ancestors found in Spain's Sima de los Huesos cave, which stays at a cool 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Today, he would be delighted to learn we have found fossils not only from the first two phases of human evolution, but also within our own genus, Homo.

In a published interview, Areces says that he has found the most primitive genus of the cactus family on the base.

Fossils found at the Els Casots site in the Vallès - Penedès Basin confirm not only that these are the most recent remains of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula, but also that temperatures at the time were higher than today's.

The authors also examined the impact of the fungus on an ant in the Polyrhachis genus and found that not all of the behaviors carried over.

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

The two genera of New World deer, Mazama and Pudu, were found to be polyphyletic, which was already known for Mazama, but has been shown for the first time in Pudu.

Tree pollen is generally recognisable to the level of genus, sometimes even species, and the sediments in which it is found can easily be radiocarbon dated.

Supplement sees 6 genera and 11 species, many of which are found only in the Caribbean, moved from the Thraupidae into a temporary category of their own as a result of genetic analysis showing they're not closely related to tanagers after all.

In keeping with the naming of its living relative (after an Eastern Cape river), the species name of the new fossil form, kowiensis, is after the Kowie River which rises among the hills where it was found, and the genus name, Serenichthys, honours Serena Gess, who provided land for the storage of more than 70 tons of black shale rescued from roadworks for ongoing research — in which all the new material was found.

A number of skeletons previously found there are from between 2 and 3 million years ago, from a time when we think the Homo genus was splitting from Australopithecus.

Researchers have decoded the chemistry of the first of a wealth of unique compounds produced by a new genus of bacteria that dwells in deep - ocean sediments, and they have found it to be a potent inhibitor of human cancers in lab experiments.

The paleontologists who analyzed two partial skulls found in South Carolina — one recently discovered by a diver and the other unearthed from the same formation more than 30 years ago — put the long - extinct creature in a new genus dubbed Inermorostrum, which roughly translated from Latin means «defenseless snout.»

But once the researchers began looking for traces of similar yeasts in other lichens, they found related lineages in 52 genera of lichens worldwide and molecular evidence that indicates a long, shared evolutionary history between the symbiotic partners.

Scientists at the RBGE turn those data into taxonomic monographs (descriptions of all the plants in a particular genus) and floras (descriptions of all the plants found in a given geographic area).

A recent study finds that different species of the fungi genus can do their dirty work only on particular host ants.

In homes with cats, 24 genera of bacteria were significantly more abundant than they were in homes without cats, the researchers found.

While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century ago.

A research team led by Scott Gardner of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has identified four new species of Ctenomys, a genus of gopher - like mammal found throughout much of South America.

The finding doubles the number of recognized virus genera — a biological classification one step up from species — and increases the number of sequenced virus genomes available for study almost tenfold.

For this purpose, they chose the less mobile lazy toads from the genus Scutiger of the Pelobatoidea, a species group found along of the Himalayas and in eastern Tibet, in habitats at altitudes between 2,500 and 5,000 metres.

Not so clear, however, is the name of the genus, which the authors have translated also from Greek as «with snake,» but find themselves unaware of the meaning behind.

With this first ever genus - wide view, the international consortium found that Aspergillus has a greater genomic and functional diversity than previously understood, broadening the range of potential applications for the fungi considered one of the most important workhorses in the biotechnology.

Among the rich finds: a fossil sand dollar that Charles Darwin picked up in Patagonia in 1834, during his voyage on the Beagle; an exquisite coiled boa constrictor skeleton, 300 vertebrae long; and Nabokov's wooden cabinet of butterfly genitalia, the study of which enabled him to name seven new genera of Latin American blues.

The most common of these genes were similar to those found in the genera Bradyrhizobium, Solibacter, Sphingomonas, Burkholderia, Mycobacterium, Mesorhizobium, and Pseudomonas.

Similarly, lovebirds (of the genus Agapornis), African grays (Psittacus erithacus), cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) and other parrots you might find in pet stores and aviaries have climbing feet.

The species belongs to the Termitotrox genus and is only the second representative of its to have been found in the Indo - Chinese subregion after the discovery of T. cupido in 2012.

Its distinctive «horned neck» and flattened, cone - like eyes, as well as the location from where it was found, led the researchers to assign the insect to a new genus and species.

The most commonly found bacteria were from three genera that are ubiquitous on and in humans: Streptococcus, which is commonly found in the mouth, and Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium, both common skin residents.

Dr. Donald Stewart, a fisheries professor at ESF, found evidence in the monograph of a second species belonging to the genus Arapaima, air - breathing giants that live in shallow lakes, flooded forests and connecting channels in the Amazon River basin.

This finding suggests that if at least two samples are taken, allowing calculation of a rate of change, these bacterial genera might be a good way to backtrack to time of death.

After ranking 24 evolutionarily diverse primate genera, he found that very few of them did well on one task and particularly badly on another.

Several clams in the Corbicula genus avoid the risks of finding a mate by never having sex.

Stratigraphic analysis of the find locality reveals that the fossil is the oldest known representative of the genus Archaeopteryx.

Although the fossil looks a bit like a gibbon skull on first blush, Nengo says, its dental pattern and teeth shape suggest its closest relatives are other Miocene fossil primates from the genus Nyanzapithecus, also found in Kenya.

The Actinobacteria phylum includes Corynebacterium and Propionibacterium; each genus was found in the ISS samples at a high level, which is «problematic,» says Venkateswaran, because they both have species that are opportunistic pathogens.

Even if no intersection between man and bug occurred, the finding is important because it provides the earliest record of the genus Cimex, the researchers said.

The genus Osedax, seen here on a whale's rib at the bottom of Monterey Canyon off the California coast, releases acid through its roots, according to findings presented at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting earlier this summer.

P. otwayensis belongs to the small spider family Gradungulidae which consists of seven genera with a total of 16 described species found exclusively in eastern Australia and New Zealand.

The study found Karabo most likely to be ancestral to the genus Homo — but not a descendent of A. africanus.