Sentences with phrase «of palaeontology»

In the early 1980s, Currie played a lead role in the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta.

The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà - Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of our evolution for which the record is very thin.

The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà - Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin.

Beyond such considerations, however, the task of marrying the Church's teaching regarding the creation of man with the field of palaeontology falls tophilosophers to contemplate, theologians to speculate on and scientists to observe and theorise about.

Suzuki has married the science of palaeontology with acoustic engineering to work out what kind of noises dinosaurs were likely to have made.

Even before Murphy made the headlines with that find in 2002, he had become part of the palaeontology scene in Montana, a large, sparsely populated state that is exceptionally rich in dinosaurs.

In Europe, William Diller Matthew (1871 - 1930) is an unfamiliar figure in the history of palaeontology.

Professor Harper, Professor of Palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, said: «The Cambrian Explosion is one of the most important events in the history of life on our planet, establishing animals as the most visible part of the planet's marine ecosystems.

Faux Guide extends the exploration of palaeontology, museology and natural history in Morocco that Barrada launched in her Abraaj Group Art Prize show during Art Dubai and coincides with Salon Marocain, a solo exhibition of her work at the Serralves Museum of -LSB-...]

The amber piece was originally seen as some kind of plant inclusion and destined to become a curiosity or piece of jewellery, but Xing recognized its potential scientific importance and suggested the Dexu Institute of Palaeontology buy the specimen.

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

He ran dinosaur - digging tours which charged «volunteers» upwards of $ 1500 a week, and was director of palaeontology at the small, not - for - profit Phillips County Museum in Malta, a town of 1800 people in the north - east of the state.

The discovery of this mammal on the continent of Asia indicates that there were some paleogeographic and environmental conditions that favoured the expansion of this species towards the east,» explains Chiara Angelone, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology Miquel Crusafont and co-author of the study published in the journal Historical Biology.

Like a mismatched puzzle, the Tully monster lacks some vertebrate pieces and has others that are the wrong shape, Sallan and colleagues report in the March issue of Palaeontology.

Taxonomy features almost as highly as taxidermy, especially where the book unravels the golden age of palaeontology.

Both creationists they may be, but their interpretations of palaeontology are diametrically opposed.

Chris Stringer, Head of Human Origins, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London telephone: [phone] email: [email protected]

They compared it with several ichthyosaurs and visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada, and examined the largest ichthyosaur known, the shastasaurid Shonisaurus sikanniensis, which is 21 m long.

For example, in my own field of palaeontology, it is not unknown for someone to say to me: «Steve, I've just collected this specimen that I suspect may be a new species.

The famous dinosaur museum is Canada's only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology and houses one of the world's largest displays of dinosaurs.

by Elsa Panciroli1 Introduction: The study of the earliest mammals is an exciting part of palaeontology, telling us not only about strange animals that once lived on Earth, but also about how our own ancestors evolved alongside the dinosaurs.

In the history of palaeontology, Australian fossils have not been neglected, but they have only had a little time in the spotlight.

The author, Edwin Colbert, is both a professor of palaeontology and Matthew's son - in - law.

Controversial questions concerning race and cultural identity have also come to haunt the quieter world of palaeontology.

Faux Guide extends the exploration of palaeontology, museology and natural history in Morocco that Barrada launched in her Abraaj Group Art Prize show during Art Dubai and coincides with Salon Marocain, a solo exhibition of her work at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, on view through 20 September.

«We have confirmed this earlier appearance of the Iberian lynx based on initial molecular studies that estimate the emergence of this feline during the Early Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula,» asserts Alberto Boscaini, a researcher at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP) and the main author of this study published by Quaternary Science Reviews.

I was rummaging through drawers in the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada, looking for a Tyrannosaurus rex claw, when I found something I'd never seen before.

In terms of the advent of Man this latter window includes the fields of palaeontology and genetics.

The dinosaur specimens examined reside in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta), University of Alberta (Edmonton), American Museum of Natural History (New York), Field Museum (Chicago), Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven, Connecticut), National Museum of Natural History (Washington), and Natural History Museum (London).

Collaborators included armadillo experts Drs. Colleen McDonough and Jim Loughry of Valdosta State University in Georgia, and Dr. Don Henderson, with Drumheller Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

In the early 19th century, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs discovered by legendary fossil hunter Mary Anning around Lyme Bay in south - west England helped establish the science of palaeontology.

«It actually looks like it looked back in the Cretaceous,» says Caleb Brown at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Canada.

The 110 - million - year - old Borealopelta markmitchelli discovered in Alberta, Canada, on view at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, belongs to the nodosaur family.

At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, the past replays an adventure both large and small.