Sentences with phrase «of ancient skeletons»

While the relatively cool conditions at many European sites have helped preserve the DNA of ancient skeletons, researchers had not succeeded in sequencing DNA from the many skeletons found at very early Middle Eastern sites, due to their very hot and dry environments.

Now, with hundreds of thousands of ancient skeletons (and their petrous bones) still to be analyzed, the field of ancient DNA is poised to both pin down current questions and tackle new ones.

Few of us are actually the direct descendants of the ancient skeletons found in our backyards or historic homelands.

Not exact matches

Last week, paleontologist identified the skeleton of an ancient horse that was from an ice age nearly 16000 years ago.

Apr. 23, 2013 — Ancient DNA recovered from a series of skeletons in central Germany up to 7,500 years old has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern Europe.

Now ancient DNA from the fossilized skeleton of a short, dark - skinned, dark - eyed man who lived at least 36,000 years ago along the Middle Don River in Russia presents a different view: This young man had DNA from all three of those migratory groups and so was already «pure European,» says evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, who led the analysis.

The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.

DNA from five ancient skeletons confirms the Canaanites of biblical fame live on in modern day Lebanon

One skeleton from Denmark (Jorgen 625) showed extraordinary preservation of the pathogen DNA, allowing a genome reconstruction without using a modern reference sequence, which was never done before for an ancient organism's genome.

The genome of a 12,600 - year - old skeleton from Montana, called the Anzick Child, is the only other published ancient genome from the Americas that is older than 10,000 years.

Researchers at the University of Leicester and a group of Richard III enthusiasts spent two years scouring ancient maps and excavating what is now a parking lot to find a skeleton they thought to be his.

In 2008, he discovered the most complete skeleton yet published of an ancient African hominin, 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

Ancient baleen whales found in the same area «would have been perfect prey for such an animal,» says Lambert, who has returned to Peru in search of the rest of Livyatan's skeleton.

The as - yet - unpublished ancient DNA from the nearly complete skeleton of this individual will show that he lacked genetic variants for light skin that spread later in Europeans, according to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London who have unveiled a new reconstruction; they say a scientific paper is coming later this month.

To find out what marks these movements had left on the genetic makeup of the region, a team of scientists from Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom extracted bits of ancient DNA from skeletons from the warriors» burial mounds that dot the Kazakhstan countryside.

A new analysis of a well - preserved skeleton of a Neandertal child reveals that the ancient human species may have had an extended period of brain growth compared to modern humans.

Now, a study of DNA from ancient skeletons in Kazakhstan helps clear things up.

He compared the ancient skull with dozens of other fossils and modern skeletons to look at the whole genus and trace major changes, or the lack thereof, in alligator morphology.

Now, an international team of ancient DNA researchers and archaeologists has solved the mystery almost by accident after sequencing the genomes of 101 Bronze Age skeletons from Europe and Asia.

A new study of ancient DNA from the teeth of 101 Bronze Age skeletons has found that seven people living 2800 to 5000 years ago in Europe and Asia were infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague.

Burial in the ancient sea of Zealandia: a Toipahautea whale skeleton is slowly covered by sand 27 - 28 million years ago, on its path to become a fossil.

Researchers are trying to extract DNA from skeletons buried in the ancient Philistine cemetery of Ashkelon, in what is now Israel.

Using whole - genome sequencing, they looked at rare genetic variants in modern - day British populations and compared them with variants in the DNA of 10 ancient skeletons.

Their analysis of nearly 1,000 ancient skeletons in university and museum collections showed that TB was spreading throughout the Americas via herds of cattlelike beasts called bovids around 75,000 years ago.

Roberts said that «the presence of bone - borings provides a CSI - like opportunity to study the skeleton and reconstruct the timing of death and burial, and offers rare evidence of ancient insects and complex food webs during the age of the dinosaurs.»

Based on analysis of more than 300 teeth, skull and lower - body measurements, Alba and colleagues assign the partial skeleton to a new genus and species of ancient ape, Pliobates cataloniae.

Comparing DNA extracted from an ancient Ethiopian skeleton with modern examples shows some of our ancestors migrated back to Africa from Eurasia 3000 years ago

But most ancient skeletons are highly fragmented, so it's difficult to figure out what kind of animal they were from, and what they were used for.

Another surprise: The skeletons — with a mosaic of modern and ancient anatomy — represented a new species.

Thanks to a lack of dental hygiene in the Middle Ages, Warinner found a trove of ancient microbial material on teeth of four skeletons from a medieval monastery in Dalheim, Germany.

This type of work is essential to discover more about ancient communities when the complete skeletons of individuals are not available.

That same study linked milk proteins preserved in the calculus of other ancient human skeletons to specific animals — providing a peek into long - ago lifestyles.

This showed that the details of segmentation in the Pseudooides embryos to be nothing more than the folded edge of an opening, which developed into the rim of the cone - shaped skeleton that once housed the anemone - like stage in the life cycle of the ancient jellyfish.

The mitochondrial DNA sequences from the Syrian skeletons showed what the team calls «strong affinities» with ancient DNA recently recovered from roughly 7000 - year - old farming villages in both Germany and Spain, confirming that populations in the Middle East were indeed the source of later farming populations in Europe.

Hannes Schroeder, an ancient DNA researcher at the University of Copenhagen, had previously studied the Zoutsteeg Three's skeletons, determining that all three of them were between 25 and 40 when they died.

Searches for cancer in ancient remains are plagued (no pun intended) by sampling errors — the signature of cancer can be detected in bones, but many skeletons are incomplete, and of course cancers do not always spread to bone after they originate in soft tissue.

Ancient DNA from skeletons (inset) found at this early farming site in Syria, Tell Halula, points to a maritime route for the spread of farming into Europe.

The use of coral cores in the study was praised by Braddock Linsley, a professor at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University who studies ancient climatic conditions by analyzing coral skeleton samples.

In the new study, an international team extracted ancient DNA from the skeletons of four ancient women from the islands of Vanuatu and Tonga, dated to 2300 to 3100 years ago, including three directly associated with the Lapita culture.

However, while most fish in the sea have bones, one ancient lineage — sharks, skates and rays — possess skeletons made entirely of cartilage.

Other animals from these ancient marine sediments include a number of exciting new discoveries: arthropods without skeletons, many sponges, a few shelled brachiopods and a single trilobite species.

Today, many articulated skeletons of elasmosaurs provide insight in the anatomy, lifestyle and relationships of these spectacular ancient sea monsters.

To better understand its origin and life history, scientists examined the skeleton, organs, and ancient DNA using a myriad of techniques: anthropological investigation, a complete body CT scan, isotope analysis, tissue histology, molecular identification of ancient parasitic DNA, and forensic injury reconstruction.

August 15, 2013 Earliest complete fossil from major group of ancient mammal discovered Flexible ankles and versatile ridged teeth were the key adaptations that allowed mutituberculates to become the most successful group of ancient mammals, as revealed with the discovery of a 160 million - year - old fossil — the earliest known complete skeleton of a multituberculate.

A study of ancient marine algae has found that climate change affected their growth and skeleton structure.

Archaeological investigations have turned up evidence of injuries, degenerative disease, infections, and tumors in ancient skeletons, but no signs (yet) of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

The unearthing of an ancient mass grave filled with Roman skeletons has left archeologists in modern Turkey grappling for answers after they uncovered the Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.

A book, titled «Kennewick Man: «The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton», provides the most thorough analysis of the find made in Tri-City Herald funeral notices and Death Notices for Kennewick Washington area.

Famitsu also revealed a new field map for MH4, a «primeval forest» filled with all kinds of natural vistas, as well as things like dragon skeletons and evidence of some ancient civilization.

On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black - market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.