Sentences with phrase «in the vertebrate paleontology»

And luckily, Cynthia Marshall Faux is both — with doctorates in veterinary medicine as well as geology (with a specialty in vertebrate paleontology).

See more fossils in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection or learn more about the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection study grant.

Not exact matches

But a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology supports the idea that there was an isolated desert in the middle of Pangea with a fauna all its own.

Carolyn Gramling reports that members of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology and the Paleontology Society of Washington began gathering in D.C. around 9:30 a.m., sporting foam fingers and signs reading «Don't let science go extinct.»

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.

With several colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, we were able to establish that certain key raptor dinosaurs were fully plumaged, with feathers that were entirely modern in structure.

Because the other individuals were smaller, and because pieces of some of their vertebrae hadn't fully fused, those creatures are presumed to be juveniles, says Xing Xu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

But last week, at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada, a team of scientists suggested a different killer: harmful algal blooms in the very water that had lured the animals.

The findings are published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Hong - yu Yi of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, says she's reserving judgment on the specimen's identity until further analysis.

Anemone will present the team's work at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

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.

Wear patterns suggest its owner chewed on hard or bony animals like the frogs and turtles whose fossils were found in the same quarry in Queensland, Australia (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 33, p1).

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, co-authored research describing the new species, which was published May 7, 2013 in the journal Nature Communications.

Candidate at the University of Alberta, will present the team's research findings at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, held this year in Calgary, Alberta (Canada) on Friday, Aug. 25th.

The new findings appear in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Recent fossil discoveries have resonated throughout Chinese culture, as evidenced by the giant reconstruction of Sinraptor posed outside the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

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.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).

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 boneIn 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 bonein 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 bonein 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 bonein 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.

The species description was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by University of Utah, University of Washington and Burke Museum, and The Field Museum.

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 ivertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology iVertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

A team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing used computer software to examine evolutionary relationships among early birds and related dinosaurs, based on 374 skeletal characteristics.

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.

The research is reported in a paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

In the Gobi Desert of northern China, Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology accidentally stumbled upon a gigantic one - and - a-half-ton dinosaur while filming a documentary about a previous find.

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.

Rather, these teeth were kept hidden, covered by scaly lips, he said in a presentation May 20 at the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Ontario.

The international team of scientists who studied the skeleton of Archicebus was led by Dr. Xijun Ni of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Motani presented his work at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

According to new research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting here, some rhinoceros - sized dinosaurs successfully brooded in open - air nests by arranging the eggs so they wouldn't break.

The finds are «a fantastic discovery,» says paleontologist Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

New fossils described yesterday at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Mexico City, however, are providing insight into the timing of this extraordinary transformation.

Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long — bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today.

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.

The plesiosaur described in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, though not the same species, also sported four fins and a long neck.

Native American tribes, environmentalists, outdoor companies, and one scientific society — the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, based in Bethesda, Maryland — are challenging the decisions in court.

When the localities are also organized chronologically, as they are in the Burke vertebrate paleontology collections, I can trace how those communities changed over time.

This interval is well represented in the Burke Museum vertebrate paleontology collections, including a rich sample from the time just after that rapid warming event.

Fossils in the Burke's vertebrate paleontology collection are stored by locality.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

Carlos visited the Burke Museum in July 2016 to see the specimen when he was a recipient of the Museum's Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant.

Visiting researcher Carlos Mauricio Peredo and colleagues from George Mason University in Virginia recently published their research, including naming the new species, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

«At first we just didn't know what the rod - like bones were,» study author Corwin Sullivan, a Canadian palaeontologist based at The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statement.

The fossil assemblage, called the Daohugou Biota, is described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.