Sentences with phrase «modern bear bones»
He believes Turk's initial excavation and subsequent experiments using hyenalike jaws on modern bear bones show the bone would've split and had counterbite marks.
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«We now intend to examine additional Cave Bear bones from various European locations with this new method, as well as conducting controlled feeding experiments with modern bears, in order to further solidify our proposition,» adds Bocherens by way of a preview.
«This is borne out by the fact that Hesperonis — discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History — which is a near relative of modern birds that still retains teeth and the most primitive stem avian with a modernized beak in the form of fused, elongate premaxillae, also possesses a modern bird palatine bone,» he said.