Sentences with phrase «of paleontology»

«Although we tend to think of paleontological discoveries coming from new field work, many of our most important conclusions come from specimens already in museums,» says Dr. Christian Kammerer, Research Curator of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of the new study.

«It's nailed shut,» says Jack Horner, curator of paleontology at Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies.

The study was conducted in collaboration with the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in California and Natural History Museum of Utah.

Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.

Paleontologists Salvador Moyà - Solà and his wife, Meike Köhler, of the Miquel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology in Barcelona initially found a piece of Pau's skull and a canine tooth two years ago at a site in northeastern Spain.

The daughter of a cabinetmaker and amateur fossil collector, Anning made her mark in the budding field of paleontology in early 19th - century England through the discovery of the first complete plesiosaur fossil

Michael Crichton, the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel — a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.

Jacobs, who was at one time head of the Division of Paleontology for the National Museums of Kenya, spent 30 years trying to locate the fossil.

Thomas Demere, curator of the department of paleontology at the San Diego Natural History Museum, says that because these fossils are from an earlier epoch than most others found in the region, they will «help flesh out the tree of life here with what organisms existed, when they arrived, and how they evolved.»

The previous discovery of soft, pliable tissues recovered from the dissolved remains of Tyrannosaur bone in 2005 [1], potentially marked a major turning point in the science of paleontology given that it extended the known range of preserved biomolecules by many orders of magnitude.

In a study published in the Journal of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History researchers describe the fishy characteristics of the animal, which lived between 70 - 85 million years ago.

These imaging techniques have revolutionized the study of paleontology over the past decade, allowing paleontologists to gain essential insights into the anatomy, development and preservation of important specimens.

Visitors to the museum can watch the preparation of eggs behind the glass walls of the Paleontology Research Lab beginning on March 29.

One of the dig's leaders, Diego Pol, earned his doctorate at a joint program between Columbia University in New York and the AMNH, in the lab of Mark Norell, the museum chair of paleontology.

The lead author is Ronald S. Tykoski, Ph.D., the Perot Museum's Director of Paleontology Lab, and the co-author is Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ph.D., the Perot Museum's Chief Curator and Vice President of Research and Collections.

In addition to this, «these remains represent the latest published evidence of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula, as until now it had only been recorded much less recently, in the Eocene and Oligocene epochs, over 23 million years ago,» Sinc was told by the lead author of the paper, David Alba of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont (ICP).

That's when a rancher in southern Argentina stopped by the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio in Argentina to disclose that he had found fossils on his land.

Students need to study all these disciplines of paleontology if they are pursuing their degree program in this discipline.

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«Based on this premise, the distribution of sizes within a mammal community can offer us valuable information about its climatic context,» explains Iris Menéndez, a researcher at the Department of Paleontology of the UCM and the Institute of Geosciences (UCM and CSIC).

The Creationists over at the DI cite him as being the leader of their Paleontology Research program even though, by his own admission, he has no credentials in the field.

By the latest estimates of paleontology the probable life of a phylum of average dimensions is to be reckoned in tens of millions of years.

Geologists and scholars in the emerging field of paleontology sought her out.

Applying to Mars the methods of paleontology that proved successful on Earth, Farmer developed the science of exopaleontology (a term he coined) to the study of early conditions on Mars and other earthlike worlds.

By all the rules of paleontology, such traces of life should have long since drained from the bones.

Schweitzer was also stymied by her unconventional fusion of paleontology and molecular biology.

Once I got the idea in my head that it could be done, I started talking to researchers who were truly fluent in the language, ideas, and techniques of both paleontology and molecular biology.

He applies that same blend of boyish exuberance and serious science to this exploration of paleontology's roots, revisions, and future course.

From musing over plant specimens collected by Darwin to a blow - by - blow retelling of paleontology's bruising «Bone Wars,» veteran science writer Conniff lovingly chronicles the institution's role in advancing our understanding of everything

Remember the plants I enjoyed your July Think Tank 25 - year review and forecast of paleontology.

A trove of feathered dinosaurs and other astounding fossil finds in northern China shakes the roots of paleontology

The discovery is detailed in the Tuesday issue of the paleontology journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

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He has named his discovery Latenivenatrix mcmasterae, or L. mcmasterae, in honour of his late mother, Lynne (McMaster) van der Reest, whose encouragement was essential for his pursuit of paleontology.

Track sleuthing, or ichnology, is a branch of paleontology that's just coming into its own, with some of the most dramatic and surprising discoveries occurring in the wilds of western Canada.

Compared with the past, he said, today's pace of paleontology is so rapid it's hard to keep up with all the discoveries and interpretations.

A journeyman piece of paleontology to be sure, but what caught the media's attention was a marriage proposal in the footnotes.

Horner is the Tom Sawyer of paleontology: He gets people excited about dinosaurs, and then he recruits them to come and work (free!)

Written in Stone By Brian Switek (Bellevue) Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself.

Schweitzer's claims are, he worries, an example of the paleontology «arm waving» that finds its way into respectable journals.

In part 3 of this special Darwin Day podcast, the Reverend Thomas Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches and author of the book Curious Bones: Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology, talks about Anning and how religion informed Darwin and the scientists who led to him.

The world's coolest job would obviously involve packing up a bunch of pickaxes, tiny brooms, a loaf of high - tech performance layers, and journeying to Antarctica, the final frontier of paleontology, on the hunt for fossils of all sorts.

One of the joys of paleontology is that one can take virtual trips through time to visit the life of past geological ages.

Students rounded off the end of Paleontology week 1 with a lecture on the history of life on Earth.