Sentences with phrase «jaw fragments of»

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.

Not exact matches

They uncovered more remains, including several pieces of jaw bone and a fragment of an arm.

But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.

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.

Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, we have various bits of Timurlengia's skeleton, including part of the snout and jaws, some teeth, various vertebrae of the neck, back and tail, and fragments of the hands and feet.

Inspecting the fragments of skull, jaw and teeth more closely, they realized they had a tyrant on their hands.

The size and shape of the upper jaw fragment suggests that the creature was about 4 meters long, with some other species in the Helicoprion genus measuring almost twice that length.

Paleontologists have only a pair of lower jaw fragments to go on, the larger of which (pictured above) is almost 11 inches long.

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».

We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»