Sentences with phrase «new clade»

The study, «A new clade of putative plankton - feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States,» is published in the September issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird - like dinosaurs.

Within Neoaves, they proposed several large new clades, including a waterbird clade containing taxa such as penguins, pelicans, and loons, as well as a landbird clade containing woodpeckers, birds of prey, parrots, and songbirds.

Not exact matches

This discovery challenges the fundamentals of echinoderm evolution with respect to end - Permian survival and sheds new light on the early evolution of the modern clades, in particular on Triassic ghost lineages of the crown - group look - alikes of the Paleozoic hangovers.

Dr. Meng: Well, in the first place, I think that twist gives us an idea [of] that how much we don't know about Mesozoic mammals, because a new order means that's a major branch, a major [class] Clade, or major group, of mammal, which is quite different from others.

Phylogenetic analyses indicate that it is basal to the dominant Mesozoic avian clades Enantiornithes and Ornithuromorpha, and represents a new basal avialan lineage.

We use a new algorithm to place these WGD events in phylogenetic context: two in the ancestry of major conifer clades (Pinaceae and cupressophyte conifers) and one in Welwitschia (Gnetales).

Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure that allowed them to easily tear through the flesh and bone of other dinosaurs, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports.

A specific focus will be put on novel model organisms or clades that are now amenable to analysis thanks to new methodologies.

This supports the hypothesis that the possibility for horizontal exchange of new adaptations between major clades of the subspecies may have been a critical factor in the recent emergence of several clinically important STs from diverse genomic backgrounds.

«Our study highlights how, despite decades of paleontology research, new fossil discoveries and new ways of analyzing those fossils can still fundamentally impact how we view something as central to us as the evolution of our own clade, mammals,» Dr. Wilson said.