Sentences with phrase «modern animal bones»

In their first paper, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1997, Schweitzer, Horner, and colleagues reported that spectroscopy and chemical analyses of extracts from a T. rex femur suggested preserved proteins, including a form of collagen abundant in modern animal bones.

Not exact matches

Gelatin - rich foods, from bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part of the animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits of the animal.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

He told the audience that these bones had belonged to an ancient lizardlike animal much larger than any modern lizard.

In one of the most remarkable fossil finds of the century, Andrei Sher and his colleagues at the Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Ecology in Moscow have discovered teeth and bones of «modern» mammoths (see this week's Nature).

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

Fossil bones don't clearly show whether modern - type birds fluttered about during the Cretaceous, but the treads in Shandong do, painting an improbable scene: Animals much like today's roadrunners were in fact scampering beside two - legged, plant - eating dinosaurs.

Witmer continues to dissect modern animals, looking for tiny, signature bone structures that they might share with fossil dinosaurs.

Grooves in the bones indicate that the animals could flex their feet in two places, just as modern artiodactyls do.

His idea sounds simple enough: Look hard at the bones of modern animals to study the tiny marks that soft tissues make on bones, and see if such subtle marks can be found on dinosaur fossils as well.

«We definitely didn't expect frog bones,» says Tissier, because modern salamanders rarely eat those animals.

Scientists hope proteins from fossilized bone will shed light on how modern bison and other animals evolved.

Gelatin - rich foods, from bone broths to head cheese to foods like pig's feet and ox tails, were a large part of a traditional diet Our ancestors relished every part of the animal, and just as they ate organ meats that most modern Americans now spurn, they also ate all the gelatin - rich bony and cartilaginous bits of the animal.