Sentences with phrase «of paleontologists»

The fossil, now in the collections in Paleontological Museum of Liaoning in China, was discovered and studied by an international team of paleontologists from Paleontological Museum of Liaoning, University of Bonn in Germany, and the University of Chicago.

A group of paleontologists at the University of Queensland have found the world's largest dinosaur footprints, and, as these images and video from lead researcher Steve Salisbury show, they are...

An international team of paleontologists from Belgium, Germany, Canada and Japan has taken a step back in time and provided a new insight into the lifestyle...

Sima de los Huesos, the «bone pit,» is a cave site in Northern Spain that has yielded the world's largest assembly of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils, consisting of at least 28 skeletons, which have been excavated and pieced together over the course of more than two decades by a Spanish team of paleontologists led by Juan - Luis Arsuaga.

A group of paleontologists at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom spent almost every day for more than 6 months watching fish rot in an attempt to find patterns in their decay.

Generations of paleontologists favored the idea that males rammed their heads together the way bighorn sheep do today.

In the 1970s a growing number of paleontologists theorized that birds are living dinosaurs.

This past February the Origins Project that I direct at Arizona State University helped to convene an interesting meeting of paleontologists, anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, archaeologists and psychologists to attempt to address such questions, among others.

«Furthermore, these findings help counter, once and for all, the position of paleontologists who argue that birds did not evolve from dinosaurs.»

I saw a picture thanks to Science Works of a paleontologist laying next to Titannosaurus bones.

«Imagine a cow - sized, plant - eating reptile with a knobby skull and bony armor down its back,» said co-author Linda Tsuji of the Royal Ontario Museum, who discovered the fossils in Niger along with Sidor and a team of paleontologists in 2003 and 2006.

Last American Dinosaurs gives visitors the chance to immerse themselves in both a late Cretaceous ecosystem and the fieldwork of paleontologists today.

That's the task of paleontologist Mietje Germonpré of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, who studies dog domestication.

«Troodon formosus has been found from Mexico all the way to Alaska, spanning a 15 million year period — a fantastic and unlikely feat,» explained van der Reest, a graduate student of paleontologist Philip Currie.

A: One woman at SVP said she glanced at the exhibition and thought it was just another old photograph showing of paleontologists.

Limusaurus lost all of its teeth as it aged and swapped them for a smooth beak, a team of paleontologists reports.

In June a team of paleontologists identified the oldest example of such symmetry in a group of fossils excavated from a 600 - million - year - old rock quarry in southern China.

A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.

«It was extremely exciting to come across such a rare find,» says Philippe Lapin, one of the paleontologists with the Southern California Edison team.

Obscure provisions in California's tough environmental laws require that scientists be dispatched to construction sites in geologically promising areas, so utility company Southern California Edison had a team of paleontologists standing by.

So when a team of paleontologists unearthed several huge fossilized snake vertebrae in a Colombian coal mine, the scientists were able to deduce not only how big the creature was but also what the temperatures were like in its era.

To start with the science, Brougham studied protoceratops bones under the direction of paleontologist Norell.

Driving for 15 hours down a bumpy Mongolian road with a pack of paleontologists is a rattling experience, both physically and intellectually.

As I soon discover, only a tight - knit circle of paleontologists seem to be in on the secret, and even they seem a bit muddled about the matter.

A pair of paleontologists offer a different interpretation.

That's the conclusion of paleontologist Davorka Radovčić (Raah - dah - VEECH - eech) and her team.

The story misses this important development, that long before finding the first feathered dinosaur in the mid 1990s, the vast majority of paleontologists and an increasing number of young ornithologists realized and had accepted the mountain of osteological evidence, which Ostrom had pioneered, that frames birds as dinosaur descendants.

«Now it's become so standard that a lot of paleontologists have their own scanners in their lab,» Brusatte said.

Learn about Paleontology and discover the world of the most common dinosaurs through the eyes of a Paleontologist.

If National Geographic or some leading group of paleontologists asked a proponent researcher from one side or the other to join a committee, there wouldn't be organized efforts to say that so - and - so can not possibly be appropriate, and we will osracize anyone who continues to invite or associate with him or her.

(Typical was the complaint of a paleontologist who prefaced his 1992 book with a disclaimer: «in view of the misuse that my words have been put to in the past, I wish to say that nothing in this book should be taken out of context and thought in any way to support the views of the «creationists»...»)(20) + If pollen types did shift abruptly in some bog, scientists could account for that as an artifact of a purely local change.

A younger generation of paleontologists, in contrast, has focused on reconstructing intimate details like growth rates and behaviors using modern techniques normally associated with the study of living organisms.

An international team of paleontologists from the United States, Sweden, and Japan has retrieved original pigment, beta - keratin and muscle proteins from...

In the past few years, a number of paleontologists have reported skeletonal evidence that saurians were warm blooded, nurturing, and the probable ancestors of modern birds.

He first saw reports of the fossils at a meeting of paleontologists a couple of years ago.

But last summer a team of paleontologists led by Meave Leakey, a member of the famed fossil - hunting clan, announced that they'd found a new species of human ancestor that predates A. afarensis by about half a million years.

A growing group of paleontologists and ecologists are calling for a new push to improve the data behind estimates and to stop making broad statements comparing current events to past cataclysmic extinction spasms like the one that erased the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

«In 1986, Peter Webb and a team of paleontologists at Ohio State University discovered the remains of an extensive temperate forest that flourished 400 miles from the South Pole 3 million years ago» — Wikipedia

A team of paleontologists from the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences and Peking University have now peered inside the Pseudooides embryos using X-rays and found features that link them to the adult stages of another fossil group.

Doubt is now creeping in and random evolution is in trouble as the «trade secret» of paleontologists has been exposed.

There was no proof of cold - bloodedness, but it was the most popular working hypothesis for three generations of paleontologists.

Dr Martin, with a team of paleontologists and geochemists from the Université de Lyon and the University of Bristol, compared the evolution of the number of marine crocodilian fossil species to the sea temperature curve during the past 200 million years.

A team of paleontologists, led by Catherine Forster of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, calls it Rahona ostromi, meaning «Ostrom's menace from the clouds.»

An international group of paleontologists has discovered a horse - like animal that lived in what is now India during Eocene epoch, about 55 million years...

An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa...

Here, we see how two teams of paleontologists are putting computerized flesh onto the bones of two very different dinosaurs.

A team of paleontologists led by University of Leeds scientist Dr. Alexander Dunhill has used the so - called «Network Theory» to visually depict the...

An international group of paleontologists has found the oldest fossilized remains of insects from the order Lepidoptera known to date.