Sentences with phrase «knew about fossil»

«In this case, Exxon scientists knew about fossil fuels causing global warming and Exxon took internal actions based on its knowledge of climate change,» according to DeSaulnier and Lieu's letter.

As Mary and Elizabeth diligently and excitedly uncover these messages from another era, the reader sees how little was initially known about fossils and how they affected the way we view the world.

Epstein asks if everything we know about fossil fuels could be wrong, and suggests readers should «look at the big picture of fossil fuels»:

Not exact matches

There is almost no fossil evidence (which should be in abundance if true) and that what we scientifically know about life is that it reproduces according to its kind (which is all we have observed) and its highly complex.

We know about them through the fossil records including little pieces of bone and the imprint of plants in rock, etc..

Do you know anything about the fossil record, including being able to build a rough timeline for the types of species around all the way back to Anomalocaris, and Haikouichthys.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

The earliest known fossils of homo sapiens date from about 100,000 years ago, and paleontologists tell us that hominid species go back some 4.4 million years.

We know about mistakes in the fossil record because scientists realize their mistakes, make them public, then exclude them from the evidence.

Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set «em up Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever

The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

We don't know much about phallus evolution (external genitalia generally don't mineralize, so the fossil record is of little help), but we can compare the expression of phallus genes from organism to organism.

A step forward that non-specialists neither know nor care about (eg New fossil forces radical rethink in mudstone geology)

Then, paleontologist Rafat Jamal Azmi of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehra Dun, India, claimed in the Journal of the Geological Society of India that he had found tiny fossils, known to be from about 540 million years ago, in rocks just above the purported trace fossils.

Molecular dating suggests that glyptodonts diverged no earlier than about 35 million years ago, the researchers report, in good agreement with their known fossil record.

Though Bigfoot hunters may cling to hope, Earth's largest known ape disappeared from the fossil record about 100,000 years ago.

The first hobbit fossil, known as LB1, was found in 2003 beneath about 6 metres of dirt and rock.

Brusatte and colleagues know that the fossil belonged to an ichthyosaur, a type of ancient marine reptile, and that it probably reached 3 to 4 meters in length, about the size of a small rowboat.

They are about 13 million years old (from the middle Miocene epoch), placing them among the youngest known palaeothentid fossils.

According to the researchers, the newly described penguin lived about 61 million years ago and reached a body length of approx. 150 centimeters — making it almost as big as Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi, the largest known fossil penguin, which lived in Antarctica around 45 to 33 million years ago, thus being much younger in geological terms.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

Scientists had known about the fungus Tortotubus protuberans from fossils collected over the past three decades.

And some believe fossil fuel companies could be legally liable if they knew about climate change dangers but suppressed that information.

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions.

«Not only do we know a great deal about bird development, but also about the dinosaur - bird transition, which is well - documented by the fossil record.

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.

The oldest known fossil turtle dated back about 210 million years, but it had an already fully formed shell, giving no clues to early shell evolution.

Until recently, the oldest known fossil turtles, dating back about 215 million years, had fully developed shells, making it hard to see the sequence of evolutionary events that produced them.

It will be a revelation to many how, not content with «dinosaurs», Hawkins, Owen and their colleagues planned just about every then - known fossil saurian and mammal big enough to be embodied in iron, concrete, rubber, brick and tile.

Part by part, Bramble and Lieberman have reinterpreted the hominid physique by juxtaposing bits of fossil evidence with what's known about the physiology and biomechanics of jogging.

The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to sow doubt about global warming.

«Knowing more about this fossil means that we know more about how that divergence happened.»

The fossil hunters unearthed about 55 percent of the 65 - million - year - old skeleton — encased in a mixture of mud and sand known in paleontological jargon as the matrix — and sold it to the British businessman Graham Lacey, reportedly for $ 5 million to $ 8 million.

Fossil fragments of the flying reptile, Kryptodrakon progenitor, uncovered in northwest China, belong to the earliest known pterodactyl species, which lived about 163 million years ago.

Scientists know a good deal about these animals from the fossil record, but newly published results in Historical Biology, gleaned from a long - forgotten specimen recently discovered in the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, are recasting both the size and diets of baby ichthyosaurs.

The 4 - hectare site has yielded closely packed, beautifully preserved fossils that are the oldest hominins known outside of Africa, including five skulls, about 50 skeletal bones, and an as - yet - unpublished pelvis unearthed 2 years ago.

When Reich entered college, in 1992, most of what scientists knew about human evolution came from fossils.

There have been very few archaeological searches of Borneo, so at the moment we know practically nothing about its fossil record.

«It's very mysterious at this point in time, we don't really know what's contemplated there,» Fulton says, «If you piece together the different things that have been said by the president - elect about fossil fuels, and encouraging fossil fuel development, you'd expect this would have something to do with that.»

What is known about Denisovan ancestry comes from a single set of archaic human fossils found in the Altai mountains in Siberia.

Scientists have identified a fossil just a millimeter long as the earliest known sponge, helping resolve debates about when the sponge lineage diverged from that of more familiar animals.

«We now know a great deal about the harm from the emissions from fossil fuels,» said Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

«These spectacular fossils reveal that Agathis is old and had a huge range that no one knew about — from Australia to South America across Antarctica,» said Peter Wilf, professor of geoscience, Penn State.

«Unfortunately, viruses do not leave fossils behind, meaning we know very little about how they originate and evolve.

The nearly complete skeleton, unearthed from 160 - million - year - old mudstone deposits in northwestern China's Junggar Basin, extends the fossil record of alvarezsauroids back in time by a whopping 63 million years — making it about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

Pygmy right whales are so rarely sighted that scientists know very little about their lifestyle, and the fossil record is sparse, too.

One of the chapters in the book is about this recent finding in the Arctic by Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler and Farish Jenkins; this spectacular transition from fish to four - legged land animal, exactly right, filling part of sort of the periodic table, of the fossil record and knowing where to look, what age rock to look in, and of course, a pretty big element of luck.

Such familiarity would have been crucial in designing the forgery, which catered to geologists» desire for confirmation of ideas about human evolution based on a small number of fossil remains, and would have validated Dawson's well - known scientific aspirations.

Abstract: Black carbon (BC) from biomass and fossil fuel combustion alters chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere and snow albedo, yet little is known about its emission or deposition histories.

These researchers wanted to know more about the role of pollution from traffic and the industrial burning of fossil fuels in these deaths.