Sentences with phrase «new species»

«How new species arise is one of the most important questions facing biologists, and we still have a lot to learn,» says Pitnick, a professor in SU's Department of Biology in The College of Arts and Sciences, adding that the mechanisms maintaining the genetic boundary between species is difficult to pin down.

Studying them has yielded insights into the workings of nature, including the surprising fact that the composition of ecosystems may be influenced far more by propagule pressure — the persistence with which new species are introduced — than by the life - history traits of organisms or by competition between species.

It represents not only a new species, but an entirely new genus.

The smaller worm - like guests, a new species named Inquicus fellatus, are up to 3 mm long and attached at their bottom ends to the stiff skin of their hosts, with their feeding ends pointing away.

Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, emphasizes that the model can not indicate which new species may be threatened with extinction.

While the team failed to find the target species, with a remarkable stroke of luck, they discovered an entirely new species of beaked toad.

A genetic analysis suggests more overlooked species than scientists anticipated, raising concerns that populations of new species are quite small and endangered

Noting the conflicting observations, skeptics immediately countered that the bones belonged to a diseased H. sapiens individual, not a new species.

Ecuadorian scientists have revived a new species of yeast from pre-Incan tomb, illuminating prehistoric life

Cerretti and colleagues describe the first unambiguous oestroid fossil: a new species of fly (Mesembrinella caenozoica) discovered in amber from the Dominican Republic.

The new species has been officially described and named in the open access journal PhytoKeys only now.

Many more new species already discovered by DROP researchers await description.

The third new species announced in the present paper is also assigned to this genus.

Home to the new species, the volcanic island of Kaua`i is the oldest of the high Hawaiian Islands featuring deeply eroded drainages, well - defined canyons, and stunning tall coastal seacliffs.

«New species are still being discovered as the proposed Tun Mustapha Park (TMP) is still largely unexplored».

Apart from the horns and frill bones that helped define Judith as a new species, close examination of some of its other bones reveal a story of a life lived with pain.

Eric Lund, another co-author as well as the discoverer of the new species, stated that, «Nasutoceratops is a wondrous example of just how much more we have to learn about with world of dinosaurs.

Darwin described the creation of new species as the «mystery of mysteries».

«Little did I know that the first time I went fossil hunting I would stumble on a new species,» explains Shipp, a retired nuclear physicist who became a fossil enthusiast after moving to his dinosaur rich area of Montana.

A 13 - million - year - old infant's skull, discovered in Africa in 2014, comes from a new species of ape that may not be far removed from the common ancestor of living apes and humans.

Remarkably, virtually all of the identifiable dinosaur remains found in GSENM belong to new species, providing strong support for the dinosaur provincialism hypothesis.

For three of the species, «we immediately identified them as new species,» said Glaw, a veteran herpetologist and curator at the Museum of Natural History in Munich.

A chance fossil discovery in Montana a decade ago has led to the identification of an audacious new species of horned dinosaur.

Its occurrence over large stretches of time explains the origin of new species and ultimately the vast diversity of the biological world.

A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, southern Utah.

The crew found the three new species of Loricifera (jellyfish - like animals less than a millimeter long) in the sediment of L'Atalante Basin, a zone of salty, oxygen - depleted water at the bottom of the Mediterranean.

On further inspection, the researchers classified the stowaway as a new species of Iflavirus, a type of RNA virus related to the polio virus.

She calls the strange new species hotheaded naked ice borers.

The remote eastern Himalayas — home to tiny deer and big vipers — have offered enterprising researchers a wealth of new species to document and describe

Characterised by its unusually long slender legs, which are also the reason behind its name, the new species is unable to burrow its way through the ground like most of its relatives do.

The census turned up more than 6,000 new species candidates, including the pair depicted here: an acorn worm from the deeps of the North Atlantic, and a polychaete worm (right) found on a whale carcass near Japan.

Comparisons with other African ape fossils indicate that the infant's skull belongs to a new species that the researchers named Nyanzapithecus alesi.

Museum palaeontologist Dr. Jordan Mallon completed the scientific analysis that pinned down the dinosaur as a new species.

Poisson reached for his notebook and within seconds a new species had been added to the world of science.

In 2016, Japanese scientists identified a new species of bacteria, Ideonella sakaiensis, which has a specialized enzyme that can naturally break down PET.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.

This is why the discovery of new species there is noteworthy.

Furthermore, the researchers have discovered a new species of non-coding RNA, so - called macroRNA.

Do you worry that through genetic engineering we may create a new subspecies of human who is stronger, smarter, and healthier, and that this new species will end up surviving while the current Homo sapiens dies out?

The researchers found strange new species, but also discovered that some pioneering critters had already moved in (SN: 9/7/13, p. 11).

«Even so, it took almost two million years before the deep sea food supply was fully restored as new species evolved to occupy ecological niches vacated by extinct forms.»

Particles that look like fungal spores were found in the gut of the new species.

We celebrate (or bemoan) the human species, get excited about the discovery of new species, obsess over the fate of endangered ones, and shout at one another about the book called On the Origin of Species.

Opening a field notebook at random, the Yale University evolutionary ornithologist puts his finger on the day — Nov. 17, 1974 — when he first went bird - watching at the ocean and added 20 new species to his «life list,» bringing the count to 182.

A fossil found in Maryland was identified by a University of Pennsylvania doctoral student as belonging to a new species of ancient dog.

But, it seems, they are rather their own distinct order dating back millions of years, and a new species turned up in Tanzania just two years ago.

Larsson is at the forefront of merging paleontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes — the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals — to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated.

SEA MONSTER A 170 - million - year - old marine reptile (illustrated) found in Scotland may represent a new species of ichthyosaur.

X-Woman A female finger bone from the Denisova cave in Siberia turned out to belong to a new species when its genome was sequenced in 2010.

Since 1990, six new species have turned up, most of them, like C. saterei, in the Amazon, where they dwell in the lower to middle levels of forest trees.