Sentences with phrase «leading paleontologists»

While not addressing charges that Archaeopteryx status as a bird was based on faked evidence (that fooled the evolutionist community, textbook writers, and students for 150 years), leading paleontologists are coming to the conclusion that Archaeopteryx is a dinosaur.

One of the world's leading paleontologists describes what happens when prehistoric bones are studied with one of science's most up - to - date tools: the CT scan.

This type of dino egg is the largest identified to date and appears to have been abundant, leading paleontologists to think that birdlike dinosaurs like Baby Louie were common in the Late Cretaceous.

His strong jaw, flat molars, and bony spine on top of the skull led paleontologists to believe he ate nuts and seeds, earning him the nickname Nutcracker Man.

Also joining the party are two of Mongolia's top scientists — Bolortsetseg Minjin, Bolor for short, the country's leading paleontologist, and her father, Bodonguud Chuluun Minjin, Mongolia's most respected geologist.

The size of the skull leads paleontologists to believe this specimen is roughly 85 percent of the size of the largest T. rex ever found.

Not exact matches

A group of paleontologists at the University of Queensland have found the world's largest dinosaur footprints, and, as these images and video from lead researcher Steve Salisbury show, they are...

Leading contemporary paleontologists such as David Raup and Niles Eldredge say that the fossil problem is as serious now as it was then, despite the most determined efforts of scientists to find the missing links.

T. abini «is a significant find» that shifts the fossil record of tree - dwelling birds significantly back in time, says paleontologist Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, who led the team that reported on the penguin fossils.

In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research, found what she believed to be medullary bone in the femur of a 68 million year old T. rex fossil (MOR 1125).

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by NMNH paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species» resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction.

Led by paleontologists, the AP3 team also comprises geologists, anatomists, ecologists and biologists.

But the fossils from the Cerutti Mastodon site (as the site was named in recognition of field paleontologist Richard Cerutti who discovered the site and led the excavation), were found embedded in fine - grained sediments that had been deposited much earlier, during a period long before humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.

Now, about a dozen years later, paleontologists from the University of Bonn, led by Prof. Dr. Martin Sander, have worked with Nils Knötschke and Dr. Oliver Wings from the State Museum of Hanover to reconstruct the tracks in a three - dimensional model, using digital methods.

«Our new hypothesis has lots of exciting implications about when and where dinosaurs may have originated, as well as when feathers may have evolved,» says University of Cambridge paleontologist Matthew Baron, lead author of the study.

The find is a «paleontologist's dream,» says Ricardo Pérez - de la Fuente, a paleontologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the United Kingdom who helped lead the work.

Now paleontologist Neil Shubin — discoverer of the «fishapod» Tiktaalik, whose fins with wrists and elbows illustrate an evolutionary transition between ancient fish and early land animals — leads a lively jaunt through the human body to get us in touch with our fishy (not to mention buggy, wormy, and yeasty) extended family.

But it does have complex pigmentation, says Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

Pulanesaura, says paleontologist Blair McPhee, lead author of the August study describing the dinosaur, suggests sauropods evolved to exploit untapped food sources.

The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science shows how leading women paleontologists, including collaborator and the film's main subject, Ellen Currano, dealt with gender bias — intentional and unintentional — to achieve professional success.

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.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square.

Science chatted with Jan Zalasiewicz, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and a leading scholar on the Anthropocene, about the kinds of things humans are leaving behind — and what they'll look like millions of years hence.

According to the paleontologists, Djebelemur was probably a transitional form leading to the appearance of tooth - combed primates.

Lockley and Christian Meyer, a Swiss paleontologist who led the mapping of this region from 1998 to 2003, hung from ropes to document the imprints exquisitely preserved here.

The latest find was made there in 2010, and this new specimen has now been analyzed by a team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

It's not just another T. rex - like predator, only bigger,» says Nizar Ibrahim, the University of Chicago paleontologist who led the dig.

The new hypothesis helps paleontologists understand the setting of the quarry, and to begin to unravel the mystery that led to this unique, Allosaurus - dominated bone bed.

One study, led by Mary Schweitzer, a paleontologist from North Carolina State University in Raleigh who has chased dinosaur proteins for decades, confirms her highly controversial claim to have recovered 80 - million - year - old dinosaur collagen.

The team, led by paleontologist John Flynn of The Field Museum in Chicago, came across the fossils with the help of a young man in a remote Madagascar village.

«It forces a radical rethink of what evolution was capable of among the first tetrapods,» said project lead Jason Anderson, a paleontologist and Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM).

In 2007, an international team led by Julia Clarke, a paleontologist at the University of Texas, Austin, reported two new extinct species near the Pacific coast of Peru.

Researchers led by Thomas Kaye, a paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, report in PLoS ONE that slimy bacterial colonies called biofilms mimic the fleshy residues allegedly recovered from a fossilized bone unearthed in Montana in 2005.

Shortly afterwards, a team led by paleontologist Derek Briggs of Yale University showed for the first time that cellular structures called melanosomes, which contain the melanin pigments that give color to skin and hair in humans and plumage in birds, can be preserved in fossil feathers.

The expedition team of seven Malagasies and six Americans, led by paleontologists Flynn and Andr?

In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.

A team of paleontologists, led by Catherine Forster of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, calls it Rahona ostromi, meaning «Ostrom's menace from the clouds.»

«Any other color would have long since rotted away,» says Maria McNamara, a paleontologist at University College Cork in the United Kingdom and lead author of the study.

In two papers in this week's issue of Science, a team led by Luo and paleontologist Qing - Jin Meng of the Beijing Museum of Natural History reports the discovery of two new, shrew - sized docodonts that boost this picture of early mammalian diversity.

The study was led by Sébastien Olive, a vertebrate paleontologist in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences who is now on a post-doctoral fellowship at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.

The long - necked and herbivorous Dreadnoughtus schrani, whose name means «fears nothing,» measured 85 feet (26 meters) in length from the tip of its small head to the end of its tail and weighed 65 tons — about seven times heavier than Tyrannosaurus rex, said Drexel University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who led the excavation.

«That's about as tall as a medium - sized man,» said paleontologist Gerald Mayr from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and the lead author of the study on Kumimanu biceae.

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one - celled organisms called protists, according to new research led by a University of Washington paleontologist.

A team led by paleontologists and geologists at the University of Washington has uncovered new fossils in Zambia and Tanzania, examined previously collected fossils, and analyzed specimens in museums around the world to better understand life in the Triassic period across different geographic regions.

The team was led by paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

This one does have a woman in the lead, an American paleontologist played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, but she's basically Kurt Russell with rounder eyes.

The Pitch: Coria, a renowned Argentinian paleontologist, leads the audience through what the Earth might have been like had dinosaurs not been driven to extinction.

University of Florida educational technology researcher Pasha Antonenko is leading a team of UF scientists from multiple disciplines to create a novel curriculum for the middle and high school grades and assist paleontologists working on projects worldwide.