Sentences with phrase «nearly complete skeleton»

A college student discovered a human skull in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996, and the nearly complete skeleton was unearthed and determined to be 9,500 years old.

Her nearly complete skeleton offers a lot of information to scientists, such as that she was about 5 feet tall and, when food was plentiful, weighed about 110 pounds.

The 150 - million - year - old bones turned out to be a nearly complete skeleton of a nine - foot - long carnivorous marine reptile.

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 nearly complete skeleton, unearthed from 160 - million - year - old mudstone deposits in northwestern China's Junggar Basin, extends the fossil record of alvarezsauroids back in time by a whopping 63 million years — making it about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

The nearly complete skeleton is about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

It didn't take long before her team unearthed a nearly complete skeleton — with feathers — of a 36 - million - year - old penguin whose swimming length measures about 1.5 meters.

The nearly complete skeleton provides critical insights into the traits that helped such multituberculates thrive in their day.

He discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a young adult male, which radiocarbon dating established at around 8,500 years old, making Kennewick Man one of the oldest and most complete human skeletons from North America.

This nearly complete skeleton of a large winged dinosaur was found in northeast China's Liaoning province.

Fifteen hundred hours of digging into northwest India's sedimentary rock has brought forth the nearly complete skeleton of a 150 - million - year - old ichthyosaur — a marine reptile that roamed the seas in the age of dinosaurs, National Geographic reports.

The as - yet - unpublished ancient DNA from the nearly complete skeleton of this individual will show that he lacked genetic variants for light skin that spread later in Europeans, according to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London who have unveiled a new reconstruction; they say a scientific paper is coming later this month.

Subsequent excavations in the region during the second half of the 19th century turned up nearly complete skeletons of duck - billed, horned, and armored dinosaurs.

Recently, also in the Gobi, a team found fossils making up nearly complete skeletons of two additional specimens.

Some adapiforms, like North American Notharctus, are known from nearly complete skeletons like that of Darwinius.

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A newly discovered, nearly complete fossilized skeleton hints that all dinosaurs may have sported feathers.

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.

Several more bones from this species have been found in Ethiopia, including the famed «Lucy,» a nearly complete A. afarensis skeleton found in Hadar.

The discovery in 1908 of a nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton at La Chapelle - aux - Saints, France, shaped popular perceptions of the Neanderthals for the next few decades.

The collection also includes complete, or nearly complete, skeletons associated with preserved soft tissues such as feathers, fur, skin or even, in some of the salamanders, external gills.

Two of the premier objects in the park's museum collection are the original third - order Fresnel lens from the Anacapa lighthouse and the nearly - complete pygmy mammoth skeleton from Santa Rosa Island.