«Teeth tend to fossilize and preserve better than most
of the skeletal elements,» Grossnickle says, and are the most numerous type of fossil for early mammals.
Not exact matches
Tom Atencio sports tribal tattoos,
skeletal silver jewelry and muscles sculpted from years
of practicing mixed martial arts, the violent spectator sport that combines
elements of wrestling, kickboxing and street fighting.
The remarkable specimen — which includes nine
skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones — is being heralded as the «best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia» and to be «the first report
of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin
of the Eurasian Continent.»
The discovery
of a complete cranium, mandible, dentition and various
skeletal elements at Shuitangba provides information about the taxonomy, evolutionary history, and functional morphology
of this new species.
«We are quite sure that the juvenile - only placoderm assemblage is not the result
of sorting
of small material by water currents because there are larger
skeletal elements of other kinds
of fish.
When the researchers experimentally «posteriorised» pectoral fin buds
of catsharks, the fins lost anterior
skeletal elements, and showed a single bone connected to the pectoral girdle, as seen in fossil Tiktaalik pectoral fins.
Representing at least 15 individuals with most
skeletal elements repeated multiple times, this is the largest assemblage
of a single species
of hominins yet discovered in Africa.
In order to contextualise the australopithecine and early Homo stature estimates and range
of variability obtained from the footprints within a broader picture (Figure 12), and to compare them with a larger sample, we extended our analysis to consistent data based on
skeletal elements, namely femurs (see Materials and methods for details).
The sequentially - forming
skeletal elements act as a single developmental module, but sizes
of individual bones within the module can vary.
Given the incomplete nature
of this rib and the lack
of associated
skeletal elements, we resist commenting on the health effects the tumor had on the individual.
The recent recognition that de novo lipogenesis might have relevance for lipid homeostasis in
skeletal muscle stems from the realization that Sterol regulatory
element binding protein - 1c (SREBP - 1c), a member
of the family
of transcription factors that regulate the expression
of genes involved in lipid storage in liver and adipose tissue, is also present in
skeletal muscle at a level close to that observed in the liver, 41,42... [M] ost fascinating are the very recent demonstrations that glucose alone (in the absence
of insulin) can stimulate de novo lipogenesis in
skeletal muscle cells....
Snack for bone health: The minerals present in these nuts can firm up the
skeletal system and can provide several
elements required for proper growth
of bones.
Although certain
elements of these intricate signaling pathways independently modulate critical steps involved in the cellular control
of skeletal muscle anabolism and proteolysis, commonality between pathways does exist.
The sculptures» forms were loosely inspired by a species
of rare shrimp, whose bodies have both transparent and opaque
elements, as well as complex and visible jointing and
skeletal systems.
Thus, the preservation
of primary soft tissues and biomolecules is not limited to large - sized bones buried in fluvial sandstone environments, but also occurs in relatively small - sized
skeletal elements deposited in marine sediments.