Sentences with phrase «of ancient animals»

The remains of ancient animal fossils have been found and dated.

However, bones and teeth of ancient animals similar to elephants have been discovered at the site.

Now we can confidently fill in some of the original color patterns of these ancient animals.»

David Martill, a pterosaur specialist at the University of Portsmouth, UK, says that although the tracks record a «small moment, perhaps no more than three seconds, in the life of a pterosaur», they offer a real insight into the lives of the ancient animals.

In addition to finding the human footprints, the researchers also found tracks of ancient animals, from birds to lions, that provide a «snapshot in time of what animals were on the landscape,» says paleoanthropologist and co-author John Harris of Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Researchers have also delved into the genomes of ancient animals — the oldest so far is a 700,000 - year - old horse.

As well as helping to explain how bioluminescence evolved, their finding tells a story of the journey of ancient animals deeper into the oceans.

© Drawing by Joseph Smit, from «Extinct Monsters; a Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life»

We can then reconstruct the diets of ancient animals who have long been extinct.

Even Daenerys Targaryen who knows nothing of her true heritage feels a connection with the relics of the ancient animals.

Located at the bottom of a 137 - foot - deep chimney inside a cave, the pit is littered with remains of ancient animals and also includes about 28 hominid skeletons dating back to the Middle Pleistocene.

Caitlin Colleary, a doctoral student of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, says the original color patterns of ancient animals can be determined through fossils.