Sentences with phrase «help paleontologists»

Unearthing such species, he adds, could help paleontologists identify the terrestrial creatures from which ichthyosaurs evolved.

If they do sport similar treads, Fronimos says, as with the sauropods, it will help paleontologists make «more precise interpretations about how these animals lived and what kinds of stresses their bodies were subjected to.»

Schweitzer believes understanding preservation at a molecular level could help paleontologists find traces of ancient life on Earth, as well as on planets like Mars.

Now, analysis of the bones of KNM - TH 28860 is helping paleontologists prune out the hairy Miocene apes from those from which we are descended.

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

The new hypothesis helps paleontologists understand the setting of the quarry, and to begin to unravel the mystery that led to this unique, Allosaurus - dominated bone bed.

The novel features helped paleontologists determine that the dinosaur was a new species but raised other questions in the process, says Alexander Kellner, the paper's coauthor.

Not exact matches

Ever since paleontologists dug up the first Archaeopteryx fossil in 1861, the strange, feathered dinosaur has been exhibit A in the case for evolution — and helped reveal that birds are actually dinosaurs.

Corwin Sullivan, a paleontologist at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology who helped interpret the remains, thinks Yutyrannus «would have been rather shaggy - looking, a killer fuzz ball with deadly teeth and claws.»

However, co-author Lindsay Zanno, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, showed that CT scans of fossils may help narrow down the search.

The find is a «paleontologist's dream,» says Ricardo Pérez - de la Fuente, a paleontologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the United Kingdom who helped lead the work.

Maybe dinosaurs had some anatomical characteristics that helped them survive, suggests Max Langer, a paleontologist at the University of São Paulo.

This past February the Origins Project that I direct at Arizona State University helped to convene an interesting meeting of paleontologists, anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, archaeologists and psychologists to attempt to address such questions, among others.

Paleontologists once assumed the dinosaurs were somehow superior, with physical features that helped them outcompete the other reptiles.

Now we have a complete skeleton, and we know about the skin and the fur, says Burkart Engesser, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland, who helped identify the fossil.

Furthermore, by covering the 150 - million - year - old hindquarters of that giant sauropod in a sturdy plaster jacket — a method that enabled him to safely ship and store the beast's delicate remains — he helped establish a critical collecting technique that is still used by paleontologists around the world.

«This specimen is particularly important because it helps confirm that the evolution of dinosaur wings, and therefore the wings of birds, was not necessarily tightly coupled to the evolution of flight,» says Michael Habib, a paleontologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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.

The team, led by paleontologist John Flynn of The Field Museum in Chicago, came across the fossils with the help of a young man in a remote Madagascar village.

«It's crazy that the oldest trees also had the most complex growth strategy,» adds Christopher Berry, a plant paleontologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who helped analyze the fossils.

However, a trove uncovered by paleontologists in northwest China is home to hundreds of well - preserved pterosaur bones that will help boost our knowledge of the creatures.

UC Berkeley paleontologists studied the molars and premolars of baboons to uncover inherited dental traits that can help track primate and human evolution.

World reconstructed with help of professional paleontologists.