Sentences with phrase «of the amber specimens»

To further examine the tiny contents of the amber specimens, a team of researchers based out of Spain and the US used a couple of methods of zooming in to see what was inside.

Modern relatives of the amber specimen are commonly found in North America today, especially in the Appalachians, but P. hispaniolae — and all salamanders — have long been extinct in the Caribbean, the researchers explain.

Not exact matches

The study's first author Lida Xing from the China University of Geosciences in Beijing discovered the remarkable specimen at an amber market in Myitkyina, Myanmar in 2015.

The amber piece was originally seen as some kind of plant inclusion and destined to become a curiosity or piece of jewellery, but Xing recognized its potential scientific importance and suggested the Dexu Institute of Palaeontology buy the specimen.

The researchers say the specimen represents the feathered tail of a theropod preserved in mid-Cretaceous amber about 99 million years ago.

Scott Anderson, an amber collector in Pennsylvania, described one of the specimens, a blood - filled tick about half a centimeter long, at a paleontology meeting a few years ago.

A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the earliest grass specimen ever discovered — about 100 million years old — and even then it was topped by a fungus similar to ergot, which for eons has been intertwined with animals and humans.

These specimens have beautifully recorded the history of feather evolution but Ryan McKellar from the University of Alberta has found another narrator for that tale: amber.

Chinese paleontologist Xing Lida has gained fame for his collection of stunning amber - encased fossils, including one specimen holding a 99 - million - year - old baby dinosaur tail and another preserving the remains of an equally ancient baby bird.

The evolution of feather color, structure, and organization is gleaned from amber - preserved specimens.

Two itty - bitty specimens, entombed in amber since the middle Eocene epoch some 54.5 million to 37 million years ago, represent a new species of Jacobson's beetle, researchers report online March 28 in the Journal of Paleontology.

«The fact that we have found some specimens trapped within spider webs in the amber would suggest that wind played an important role in bringing the feathers into contact with the resin,» added McKellar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Only 38 specimens of harvestman spiders have ever been found preserved in amber.

The earliest specimen in the show is a 1968 work «Untitled DSS 120,» of ten stainless steel boxes with warm amber Plexiglas, while the most recent work, «Untitled (Bernstein 90 - 11)» (1990), is a more austere anodized aluminum number lacquered in black autobody paint with clear Plexiglas.

Her otherwise unprepossessing subjects assume the status of preserved specimens, like flies in amber or leaves pressed between sheets of wax paper.

The fossilized specimen was purchased in Myanmar in 2014 by Guang Chen, director of the Hupoge Amber Museum in Tengchong City, China, after he had heard about an amber sample with a strange «lizard claw» inclusion.

The 11 minute video below documents the completely unnatural (and historically unprecedented) scenario of dead leaves hanging on numerous deciduous tree specimens (liquid amber and sycamore) for the entire winter season.