Sentences with phrase «near complete skeleton»
Owen's surprising results included other gigantic extinct ground sloths as well as the Megatherium, a near complete skeleton of the unknown Scelidotherium and a hippopotamus - sized rodent - like skull named Toxodon resembling a giant capybara.
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A new near - complete fossilized skeleton is thought to represent the first Jurassic ichthyosaur found in India, according to a study published October 25, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Guntupalli Prasad from the University of Delhi, India, and colleagues.
An article in The Wall Street Journal this morning quoted paleontologist Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who described the potential significance of the «spectacular» complete skeleton of a young female primate that was discovered 2 years ago near Frankfurt, Germany.
Barrick and Showers measured the relative ratios of the isotopes oxygen - 16 and oxygen - 18 in the phosphate from 54 samples of a near - complete T. rex skeleton.
The most famous of the recent finds is a pair of near - complete skeletons discovered in 2008, belonging to Australopithecus sediba, an entirely new species.
The high - profile Heritage Auctions event sold the near - complete skeleton for just over $ 1 million.
The near - complete human skeleton, with an intact cranium and preserved DNA, was found along with other extinct fauna by a team of scientific divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Proyecto de Espeleologia de Tulum (PET) in the Sac Actun cave system located off the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in 2007.
In 2006 construction for a parking garage for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealed a prehistoric lion skull, dire wolves, and a near - complete mammoth skeleton from the last Ice Age, roughly 40,000 to 100,000 years ago.
This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.
The researchers additionally named the near - complete H. naledi skeleton found in the Lesedi Chamber: Neo.
Groundbreaking DNA research has shone new light on the early origins of Britain's early settlers, reconstructing in unprecedented detail the face of Cheddar Man, the nation's oldest near - complete skeleton, revealing that he had much darker features than was previously assumed.
Found in 1996, the oldest near - complete human skeleton in North America was immediately controversial.