Sentences with phrase «gives paleontologists»

Her discovery gives paleontologists a new way of distinguishing dinosaur gender and solidifies the link between dinosaurs and birds.

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

The mom — the marine - dwelling Dinocephalosaurus — and her preserved pregnancy could give paleontologists a better idea of how her kind lived and evolved.

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

The tiny fossil, just a few centimeters long, is giving paleontologists a rare window into the early development of a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, researchers report March 5 in Nature Communications.

Not exact matches

Last American Dinosaurs gives visitors the chance to immerse themselves in both a late Cretaceous ecosystem and the fieldwork of paleontologists today.

In a question - and - answer session at the meeting, however, paleontologist Nicholas Butterfield of the University of Cambridge reported that after Azmi visited and gave him a look at actual samples, he believes they are not fossils at all but artifacts.

This so - called hexapod gap has long vexed paleontologists, given that insects today are found in almost every imaginable land habitat.

[Harvard University biologist] Ed Wilson gave at least some time to the speculation that, if it had not been for the end - Cretaceous catastrophe, dinosaurs might have produced something like the attached [referring to paleontologist Dale A. Russell's illustrated evolutionary projection of how a bipedal dinosaur might have evolved into a reptilian humanoid].

Julia Clarke, an NSF - funded paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), described the fossil as belonging to a new species related to today's ducks and geese, and gave it the name Vegavis iaai.

Without any lower - body bones for N. alesi, it's too early to rule out the possibility that Nyanzapithecus gave rise to modern gibbons and perhaps Oreopithecus as well, says paleontologist David Alba of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona.

At long last, paleontologists are giving it a diagnosis: septic arthritis, a bone disease that often develops when an injury is followed by infection.

«When he gives a lecture, the rate of information transmittal is very high,» says Leslie Marcus, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History and a self - described «facilitator» for the new morphometrics.

Older samples should be tested, says paleontologist Bruce Runnegar of the University of California, Los Angeles, who recently gave Bada's team a 3.5 billion year old sulfate sample: «Hopefully they will find something interesting in there.»

But then she sat in on a dinosaur lecture given by Jack Horner, now retired from the university, who was the model for the paleontologist in the original Jurassic Park movie.

That helped give sauropod spines the strength they needed to withstand their owners» titanic weights, Fronimos and his co-author, Jeffrey Wilson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Michigan, report this month in Ameghiniana.

Shortly afterwards, a team led by paleontologist Derek Briggs of Yale University showed for the first time that cellular structures called melanosomes, which contain the melanin pigments that give color to skin and hair in humans and plumage in birds, can be preserved in fossil feathers.

Its name means egg thief, which paleontologists working in Mongolia in the 1920s gave to fossils of this slender, two - legged creature that were resting by a nest of eggs — eggs the paleontologists assumed the dinosaur must have been devouring.

Given the precise arrangement of eggs in fossil nests, the eggs could have been partially buried — or at least nestled — in sediment, even when a parent was brooding them in an «open» nest, says David Varricchio, a paleontologist at Montana State University, Bozeman.

Burke Museum paleontologists never just collect one type of animal — they collect all of the fossils that they find in a given location.