Sentences with phrase «lot of paleontologists»
«Now it's become so standard that a lot of paleontologists have their own scanners in their lab,» Brusatte said.
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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.
«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.
Paleontologists have long suspected that these observations reflect a fundamental coupling between the rates of species formation and anatomical change: groups of organisms that contain lots of species also seem to have greater amounts of anatomical variation, while groups with only a few species, such as the gar, lack much morphological variety.
«There's a lot that's left to be filled in there,» says Daniel Fisher, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who wasn't involved in the current work.