Sentences with phrase «old dinosaur fossil»
Researchers claim this scanning electron microscope image captures collagen fibrous material from an 80 - million - year - old dinosaur fossil.
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In the dark red dirt of Madagascar, scientists have unearthed what they claim are the oldest dinosaur fossils ever found.
Not exact matches
Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.
As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.
Topher, if you think the earth is only 6,000 years old or so, what do you make of dinosaur fossils?
First the earth doesn't rotate around the sun, then evolution is a farce and dinosaurs fossils are tricks placed by the devil to tempt people into not believing, and now the big bang is more proof that when the bible said the world was 6000 years old... it meant 18 billion years old.
Matt — Practically every major museum HAS them... except the one at Liberty University who claim to have a dinosaur fossil that is 3000 years old.
It's possible that God could have created the earth in situ with Lucy, dinosaur fossils and rocks which date over 4 billion years old.
If you accept the carbon 14 dating method as accruate as the entire scientific community does, than that woudl be «proof» that dinosaurs and vegitation fossils are as old as estimated.
Yeah this coming from the same crowd that includes Sarah Palin who believes the earth is 6000 years old and dinosaurs and humans co-existed because she saw a dinosaur footprint and a human footprint on the same fossil!
Every day, new fossil finds are reported — the first insect, the oldest hominid, the first sauropod dinosaur, an Eocene whale with legs — and so it goes on.
Archaeopteryx remains the oldest known bird fossil, not only documenting the evolutionary transition from reptiles to birds, but also confirming that modern birds are the direct descendants of carnivorous dinosaurs.
Living at the same time as the dinosaurs, Hesperornithiform bird fossils have been found in North America, Europe and Asia in rocks 65 - 95 million years old.
THE record for the oldest feathered dinosaur, which has stood since the discovery of Archaeopteryx, has finally fallen to an even older fossil unearthed in China.
«Print a 200 - million - year - old dinosaur «fossil» in your own home: CT - scan study makes it possible to 3 - D print and study the skull of the dinosaur species Massospondylus that roamed South Africa 200 million years ago in your own home.»
In Mongolia, 298 - million - year - old plant fossils paint a portrait of what life was like long before the dinosaurs.
Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.
The new lagerpetid (Ixalerpeton) and saurischian dinosaur (Buriolestes) were unearthed from the ~ 230 - million - year - old Carnian Santa Maria Formation — one of the oldest known rock units including dinosaur fossils anywhere in the world.
They also hope to get an even more precise radioisotopic date on the oldest dinosaur - bearing rocks, and the search for more Triassic fossils continues.
«New species of sauropod dinosaur discovered in Tanzania: Fossil remains recovered from 70 to 100 million - year - old rocks in southwestern Tanzania.»
A 70 - million - year - old fossil bird recently found in Madagascar may just clinch the argument that birds descended from two - legged dinosaurs.
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.
In 1999, while fossil hunting in the Badlands of North Dakota, 16 - year - old Tyler Lyson stumbled upon a mummified dinosaur: not just a skeleton, but a fossil that turned out to include naturally preserved soft - tissue structures.
«Britain's oldest sauropod dinosaur identified from fossil bone that fell from a cliff face.»
They took new samples from the same 80 - million - year - old fossil, of a duck - billed dinosaur called Brachylophosaurus canadensis.
Researchers using Los Alamos» unique neutron - imaging and high - energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74 - million - year - old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest - resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done.
He points out that huge holes remain in the Triassic fossil record — the next - oldest well - preserved dinosaur fossils are about 15 million years younger.
Dinosaur fossils, however, are almost certainly too old to preserve viable DNA, he notes.
A 127 - million - year - old tiny fossil of a baby bird could throw light on the evolution of birds in the age of the dinosaurs.
This 161 - million - year - old fossil is the oldest example of iridescence in a feathered dinosaur yet discovered.
Many living fossils are considerably older than humans and other mammals; some have even outlasted the dinosaurs.
Known as the Capital of the Karoo, it is the oldest and largest town in the Great Karoo region, offering a collection of Stone Age sites, rock art, dinosaur fossils, and a variety of architectural influences.
Centre General Manager Peter Aldrid says the Daintree, aged between 150 to 180 million years old, is older than Australia's dinosaur fossils dating back 115 million years.
The area is steeped in history, from the discovery of dinosaur fossils in the Glenaire Valley to the Cape Otway Lightstation, the oldest of its type on mainland Australia.
Besides the inspiration from old monster movies and retro shooters, I once wanted to be a paleontologist, digging for dinosaur fossils and stuff.
From a dinosaur tooth to a squid's backbone, the oldest fossil is around 3.5 billion years old.
The fossils are about 100 million years old, and belong to a group of dinosaurs not previously known to have lived in North America.