Sentences with phrase «in palaeontology»

Bob Carter is a geologist specialises specializing in palaeontology, stratigraphy, marine geology, and environmental science.

Although scientific innovation is principally driven by trained scientists, research opportunities often present themselves to others — in palaeontology, this can tie into the strong public interest in famous extinct animals such as dinosaurs and mammoths.

He adds that, in palaeontology, «phylogenies change from week to week».

«This creature is expanding our perspective on the anatomy and predatory habits of the first arthropods, the group to which spiders and lobsters belong,» said Cedric Aria, a PhD candidate in U of T's Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and lead author of the resulting study published this week in Palaeontology.

It seems inevitable that Matthew should have developed an interest in palaeontology very early in life.

The team, which reported its findings online earlier this month in Palaeontology, found that the brain's optic lobes were particularly large; so were the cerebellum, which controls motor functions, and the olfactory region, where odors are processed.

A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long - standing question in palaeontology — how numerous species of large, plant - eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.

In The Accidental Palaeontologist, news intern Elizabeth Quill interviews Mike Taylor, a full - time computer programmer and a part - time Ph.D. student in palaeontology.

The fossils are part of the collection housed in the Palaeontology Museum of Zaragoza.

Not exact matches

The findings were published on Thursday in the journal Palaeontology.

In the early 1980s, Currie played a lead role in the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, AlbertIn the early 1980s, Currie played a lead role in the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Albertin the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Albertin Drumheller, Alberta.

You can pull from palaeontology, you can look at experiments, you can find actual examples of speciation events that have happened in our lifetimes, and yes, genetics too.

This exposition is intended to show that we still stand merely at a beginning, even apart from the fact that palaeontology and other branches of the scientific study of man are far from having reached the end of their inquiries in their own domain.

In terms of the advent of Man this latter window includes the fields of palaeontology and genetics.

On the one hand we do not think that Scripture can be turned into a naïve palaeontology that is incompatible with the evidence of observation and common sense — man could not exist in the traumatic upheavals of primitive geological formation on earth, nor indeed could he co-exist environmentally with dinosaurs.

They compared it with several ichthyosaurs and visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada, and examined the largest ichthyosaur known, the shastasaurid Shonisaurus sikanniensis, which is 21 m long.

The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has a rich 60 - year history of discoveries in invertebrate palaeontology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has a rich 60 - year history of discoveries in invertebrate palaeontology and palaeontology and palaeobotany.

Dr Alyssa Bell and Professor Luis Chiappe of the Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, publishing in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, have undertaken a detailed analysis of their evolution, showing that separate lineages became progressively more adept at diving into water to catch fishes, like modern day loons and grebes.

David Hone at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, China, and Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, Japan, report that tooth marks on the 70 - million - year - old bone match the pattern and shape of the teeth of Tarbosaurus, an Asian tyrannosaur nearly as big as T. rex (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, DOI: 10.4202 / app.2009.0133).

In a new report in the journal Palaeontology, Sallan and colleagues argue that the two papers that seemingly settled the Tully monster debate are flawed, failing to definitively classify it as a vertebratIn a new report in the journal Palaeontology, Sallan and colleagues argue that the two papers that seemingly settled the Tully monster debate are flawed, failing to definitively classify it as a vertebratin the journal Palaeontology, Sallan and colleagues argue that the two papers that seemingly settled the Tully monster debate are flawed, failing to definitively classify it as a vertebrate.

Engelman; along with Federico Anaya, professor of geological engineering at Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, in Potosí, Bolivia; and Darin Croft, anatomy professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, describe the animals, where they fit in the family, and their paleoecology and paleobiology in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

The dinosaur specimens examined reside in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta), University of Alberta (Edmonton), American Museum of Natural History (New York), Field Museum (Chicago), Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven, Connecticut), National Museum of Natural History (Washington), and Natural History Museum (London).

Speaking at the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada estimated the fish must have been at least 4 metres long...

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

Asier Gómez - Olivencia, a doctor in Human Palaeontology, did research at the University of Cambridge and at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in France, until 2014 when he joined the UPV / EHU's Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow.

«We have confirmed this earlier appearance of the Iberian lynx based on initial molecular studies that estimate the emergence of this feline during the Early Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula,» asserts Alberto Boscaini, a researcher at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP) and the main author of this study published by Quaternary Science Reviews.

«Thousands of steppe bison fossils are recovered in northern Canada every year,» said coauthor Grant Zazula of the Government of Yukon Palaeontology Program in Whitehorse.

The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà - Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin.

McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, is as quick and nimble as Indiana Jones, but he identifies more closely with Sherlock Holmes.

The journal Palaeontology is publishing an analysis of the footprints led by Anthony Martin, a paleontologist at Emory University in Atlanta who specializes in trace fossils, which include tracks, burrows and nests.

«Illicit fossil trade presents a great challenge to modern palaeontology and accounts for a dramatic loss of Mongolian scientific heritage,» says Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

I was rummaging through drawers in the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada, looking for a Tyrannosaurus rex claw, when I found something I'd never seen before.

«Embryology can tell us about the evolutionary relationship between anatomical features in living animals, while palaeontology can pinpoint precisely when these features first appear in deep time.

Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator & Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have published a paper with colleagues in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found.

For example, in my own field of palaeontology, it is not unknown for someone to say to me: «Steve, I've just collected this specimen that I suspect may be a new species.

This emphasizes the downsides of not integrating all data sources, and reveals a situation perhaps akin to that of astronomy and experimental physics in the pursuit of cosmology: Together, palaeontology and development can come much closer to telling the whole story of evolution — this integrative approach resolves previous disparities that have challenged the support for the dinosaur - bird link and reveals previously undetected processes, including loss of bones, fusion of bones, and re-evolution of a transiently lost bone.

He ran dinosaur - digging tours which charged «volunteers» upwards of $ 1500 a week, and was director of palaeontology at the small, not - for - profit Phillips County Museum in Malta, a town of 1800 people in the north - east of the state.

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

In Europe, William Diller Matthew (1871 - 1930) is an unfamiliar figure in the history of palaeontologIn Europe, William Diller Matthew (1871 - 1930) is an unfamiliar figure in the history of palaeontologin the history of palaeontology.

He was based in New York for most of his professional life, where he was known as father of mammalian palaeontology.

The discovery of this mammal on the continent of Asia indicates that there were some paleogeographic and environmental conditions that favoured the expansion of this species towards the east,» explains Chiara Angelone, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology Miquel Crusafont and co-author of the study published in the journal Historical Biology.

The author, Edwin Colbert, is both a professor of palaeontology and Matthew's son - in - law.

«Dinosaur palaeontology is in a state of unprecedented vigour,» claims Peter Dodson, a lecturer in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

However, a new article published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology sheds new light on this mystery.

«It actually looks like it looked back in the Cretaceous,» says Caleb Brown at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Canada.

Christian, who led the study as part of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness, of layers around the circumference of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the individual belongs to.»

In addition to its stellar faculty, the institute boasts the largest professional library for palaeontology and stratigraphy in Asia, with journal collections dating back to the 1770s; a collection of 160,000 type specimens (fossils that define a species or subspecies); and a research station in southwest China's Yunnan ProvincIn addition to its stellar faculty, the institute boasts the largest professional library for palaeontology and stratigraphy in Asia, with journal collections dating back to the 1770s; a collection of 160,000 type specimens (fossils that define a species or subspecies); and a research station in southwest China's Yunnan Provincin Asia, with journal collections dating back to the 1770s; a collection of 160,000 type specimens (fossils that define a species or subspecies); and a research station in southwest China's Yunnan Provincin southwest China's Yunnan Province.

«It was assumed that tetrapods evolved in river deltas and lakes, partly because all previous fossil evidence has been found in these environments,» says Jenny Clack, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK.

Aria was part of the team that discovered the site in 2012, led by Jean - Bernard Caron, an associate professor at U of T's Departments of Earth Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the ROM, and Robert Gaines, associate professor at the Department of Geology at Pomona College in California, both co-authors of the study.

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.