Sentences with phrase «jaw fragments from»
We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»
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Most fossils from more than 40 known extinct ape species amount to no more than jaw fragments or a few isolated teeth.
Jagged pits, incisions and other marks scar a leg fragment and lower jaw from an ancient hoofed animal.
Dr Nick Longrich, from the Milner Centre for Evolution based in the University of Bath's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, studied one of these rare fossils, a fragment of a jaw bone kept in the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
For now, the nearest we got was in 2001, when researchers described the partial skull and jaw fragments of a 6 - to 7 - million - year - old hominin from the deserts of northern Chad.
Fragments of fossilized jaw, skull, and tooth, unearthed shortly before World War I from gravel beds, 45 miles south of London, were not, as had been believed, the remains of an aberrant part - human, part - ape «missing link».