Sentences with phrase «of ancient teeth»

As soon as spelunkers led by Pedro Boshoff, a former student of Berger's, found a handful of ancient teeth and a jaw deep in the cave's Dinaledi Chamber in September 2013, it was clear that «something bizarre was going on,» Berger says.

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Probably creationist don't turn to Leviticus 13 for medical advice on how to treat skin disease (leprosy); nor do they turn to Joshua 6 (Siege and fall of Jericho) for lessons in military science; nor do they turn to the staple of ancient legal science in Exodus 21:23 - 2 (lex talons «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth») for modern jurisprudence.

This ancient idea of the lex talionis — «an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth» — was explicitly repudiated by Jesus.

Personally I think that the angry God came from ancient thinking where the harshness of nature (red in tooth and claw!)

To blame the past for errors which have brought us to this pass is to indulge in the ancient fallacy of saying that the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge.

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

The ancient teeth, which feature one of the largest canines of any ancient Homo find, probably come from a member of Homo habilis,

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

Well - preserved fossils of an ancient fish called Psaroepis romeri reveal that this 20 - centimeter - long minipredator, which prowled the seas between 410 million and 415 million years ago, had enamel in its scales and its skull — but not its teeth, according to a paper by Ahlberg and colleagues in the 24 September issue of Nature.

Archaeologists in Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union, have unearthed the ancient skull of an older person who had lost all but one tooth roughly 1.8 million years before dentures were invented.

5000 B.C. Legend of the tooth worm: The first documented reference, in a Sumerian text, of a myth popular throughout the ancient world that a worm living in your gums caused dental pain and cavities.

Conventional techniques for recovering ancient human DNA typically require the destruction of bone or tooth tissue during analysis, and this has been a cause of concern for many Native and indigenous communities.

DNA retrieved from a child's worn - down fossil tooth shows the ancient Asian roots of extinct Neandertal relatives called Denisovans, researchers say.

The teeth of Palaeopotorous were washed into the river after death, along with the remains of many other ancient marsupials.

We've reached the end of our New Mexico road trip, and we have scoured the side of the road for long - dead sea creatures, found a shark tooth in an ancient seafloor and tracked long - dead worms across fossilized mud.

The evolutionary history of our dentition teaches us something different: natural tooth wear as an inevitable consequence of chewing food and habitat accompanying human evolution since ancient times.

Describing the find at a meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada speculated that the ancient tooth might have been washed downstream to Nebraska by floods, or carried as a ritual object by early humans.

A pair of 13,000 - year - old front teeth show that ancient dentists used bitumen mixed in with plants and hairs to create rudimentary fillings

Whiting also studied the carbon and oxygen compositions of the teeth of both ancient alligators and the 20 - to 25 - foot extinct crocodile Gavialosuchus americanus that once dominated the Florida coastline and died out about 5 million years ago for unknown reasons.

Teeth are a promising source of ancient DNA.

Brian Kemp, a molecular anthropologist at Washington State University who led the study, found that out of 3,500 Native Americans examined from a genetic database, 1.5 percent showed the same genetic pattern in their mitochondrial DNA as that found in the ancient tooth.

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.

In the past decade, powerful new x-ray scans and three - dimensional computer models have transformed the analysis of ancient bones, teeth, and shells.

Although the Misliya fossil — which includes a partial upper jaw, intact teeth, part of the cheekbone, the roof of the mouth and the bottom of the nasal opening — displays a few features in common with Neandertals and other ancient Homo groups, several dental traits appear only in H. sapiens, Quam says.

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.

Researchers are finally getting to know one of our most mysterious ancient relatives, thanks to DNA from a 110,000 - year - old tooth.

A rich history of life on earth lies out of sight — in 100 million - year - old nuggets of amber, in potato - shaped fossil eggs, and in mundane - looking ancient teeth.

The ancient toddler shows key anatomical features of A. afarensis, including a shoulder blade midway in shape between that of a human and a gorilla, along with features rarely seen, like a full set of both baby and adult teeth.

Ancient hunter - gatherers may have sustained themselves by eating lots of nuts and other starchy foods, but they paid a high price: rotten teeth.

This newly discovered species of otter, Siamogale melilutra, belongs to an ancient lineage of extinct otters that was previously known only from isolated teeth recovered from Thailand.

When he was pursuing his master's degree at Oxford, he had planned to study ancient mammals, but he found the field crowded; his thesis project was spent studying the teeth of Eocene - era elephants in Egypt.

Despite its impressive teeth, the ancient animal (named Janjucetus hunderi, partly in honor of its discoverer) has distinctive anatomical traits that place it firmly within the baleen branch.

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.

Dental plaque preserved in fossilized teeth confirms that Neandertals were flexible eaters and may have self - medicated with an ancient equivalent of aspirin.

They compared how sharp the teeth of ancient whales were relative to those of modern predators, like dingoes and lions.

Now scientists, exploring sediments off the coast of Peru, have discovered the first fossilized skull and jaws (and some teeth) of this ancient leviathan.

The new findings on Arctic Ocean salinity conditions in the Eocene were calculated in part by comparing ratios of oxygen isotopes locked in ancient shark teeth found in sediments on Banks Island in the Arctic Circle and incorporating the data into a salinity model.

«Oxygen isotopes in ancient bones and teeth reflect the water animals are living in or drinking,» said Kim, a former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wyoming.

Anthropologist Shara Bailey, an expert in ancient human teeth at New York University in New York City, says that «the barium method is novel and appears to be even more powerful» than previous approaches, adding that despite small sample sizes, «the authors present a strong argument for the utility of this method for extrapolating weaning history.»

An ancient fish that sported a saw blade - like whorl of serrated teeth — and was long presumed to be a member of the shark family — actually belonged to a different but closely related group, a new study suggests.

So Jonathan Bloch was shocked when a postdoc sent him photos of fossils he had dug up while exploring ancient sediments in the newly expanded Panama Canal: They were monkey teeth.

Ironically, this high - resolution genome means that the Denisovans, who are represented in the fossil record by only one tiny finger bone and two teeth, are much better known genetically than any other ancient human — including Neandertals, of which there are hundreds of specimens.

In biology, one long - running debate has teeth: whether ancient fish scales moved into the mouth with the origin of jaws, or if the tooth had its own evolutionary inception.

Their small size, thin roots and flat crowns are typical for anatomically modern humans — H. sapiens — and the overall shape of the teeth is barely distinguishable from those of both ancient and present - day humans.

Most genetics research on ancient teeth has focused on the inner tooth tissue, dentine, but Adler's team found that cementum, the coating of the root, was a richer source of DNA.

This year, geneticists at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide hope to recover DNA from a roughly 18,000 - year - old H. floresiensis tooth, which was excavated in 2009 from the Liang Bua site on the Indonesian island of Flores.

The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable, but their ancient ancestors had a full array of teeth, large fangs and thousands of tiny hook - like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey, according to new research by paleontologists at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM).

What is now dry desert was once a beach littered with the bones and teeth of ancient marine reptiles and dinosaurs.

A team of researchers has validated data and found a new model for paleontologists to use to track the diet of our ancient ancestors and animals by analyzing the wear on their teeth.

In research published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology at UTM, explains that the presence of such an extensive field of teeth provides clues to how the intriguing feeding mechanism seen in modern amphibians was also likely used by their ancient ancestors.