Sentences with phrase «old fossil by»

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Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

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.

If «evolution» by itself explains all creation, then where are ALL the fossil between old old monkey and me?

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.

Then there were the numerous articles on how Scientist found a new fossil of the oldest human and they were off by Millions of years.

If we completely ignore all the evidence we have that supports evolution, just pretend fossils don't exist, just pretend the Earth is only 6k years old and we were created by a higher being, where does it show it was the Christian god character that did it?

Instead we have a desiccated old fossil doing exactly the same things he did twenty years ago and expecting our rivals to be surprised by it.

The exciting discovery and recovery of the first complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus by ten - year - old Mary Anning in 1811 is told in an attractive graphic novel format, perfect for young readers.

By analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosauBy analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosauby taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosaurs

A 300 - million - year - old fossil mystery has been solved by a research team led by the University of Leicester, which has identified that the ancient «Tully Monster» was a vertebrate — due to the unique characteristics of its eyes.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

Fossils discovered by UNSW scientists in 3.48 billion year old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

Jurassic Cricket Biologists in Beijing determined the mating call of a 165 - million - year - old male katydid by measuring fossils of the noisemaking apparatus in the insect's wings.

The rocks had to be 50 million years old, as that is the age of the primates they study, and the land had to be sloped by at least 5 degrees, so erosion was likely to have exposed fossils.

Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000 - year - old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, a member of the H. naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud individuals as H. sapiens.

The findings were made by researchers from Oregon State University, who studied 15 - 20 million - year - old amber from the Dominican Republic that offer the oldest fossil evidence ever found of Borrelia, a type of spirochete - like bacteria that to this day causes Lyme disease.

The same NASA researchers who made headlines in 1996 by announcing they had found what looked like fossil bacteria in a 4 - billion - year - old Martian meteorite have now discovered more evidence to back their controversial claim.

This was a presentation given by Tom Schoenemann of the University of Michigan at Dearborn, and what he did was to survey cranial capacity and body weight data, so brain size and body weight data for a bunch of modern humans and also [a] fossil one, and he plotted all of this on a graph and he determined that the brain size of the Flores hominid relative to her body size more closely approximates that what you see in the Australopithecines, which are much older, you know.

Sedimentary rocks 3.5 billion years old (and perhaps those 3.8 billion years old) contain what appear to be fossil stromatolites, which are natural colonies formed by photosynthetic bacteria; within the stromalites one can see microscopic forms reminiscent of bacteria.

By contrast, the 4.4 million year old Ardipithecus ramidus from Ethiopia, the oldest hominin known from reasonably complete fossils, has an ape - like foot.

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.

But this past year Guillermo Rougier, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, described turtle fossils from Argentina (including the one shown here) that were also 210 million years old — indicating that turtles had already spread over the planet by then.

Several dating techniques applied to archaeological materials and the fossil itself suggest the jawbone is between 175,000 - 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years.

This 11.6 - million - year - old fossil find, nicknamed Laia by its discoverers, represents the first evidence that present - day African apes descended from a relatively small, somewhat gibbonlike common ancestor — not large - bodied African primates as previously thought, scientists report in the Oct. 30 Science.

A set of 520 - million year old fossils has a nervous system more complex than that evolved by their modern successors

By analyzing volcanic rocks and once - magnetized particles of sediment above and below fossils from the Chorora Formation, the researchers have new evidence that Chororapithecus was probably about 8 million years old.

Although other primate fossils are technically older, some by at least 500,000 years, the latest examples are the most primitive in terms of evolutionary development, and likely approximate our oldest primate ancestors.

Dating fossils by looking at other specimens nearby is imprecise, he says, and «I don't think the evidence is clear that these are older.»

By comparing 400 morphological features, such as the shapes and numbers of teeth, in the new fossil with those in 68 other specimens, the researchers have now placed the 73 - million - year - old creature in the Eutherian evolutionary tree, an umbrella group that includes placental mammals.

In a neat coincidence, the same summer Liu discovered the fossil trails, he also unearthed a brand - new Ediacaran species with noticeable muscle fibers — at 560 million years old, by far the earliest muscles in the fossil record.

By reconstructing the two oldest known skulls of proto - mammals — fossils of Morganucodon and Hadrocodium discovered in the famed Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China, in 1986 — Luo and colleagues found clues to how the mammalian brain began to enlarge.

A 15 million year - old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Researchers have discovered a 2.8 - million - year - old jawbone that is not just the oldest Homo fossil ever — it also pushes back the origins of our genus by 400,000 years.

Thanks to a 3D reconstruction created by slicing the rare fossil into 200 pieces and scanning them through a computer, scientists believe the 400 - million - year - old creature sported a leathery exterior and a protective hood, which it probably used to hide its tentacles when predators were nearby.

New research by Professor Beth Shapiro of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and University of Alberta Professor Duane Froese has identified North America's oldest bison fossils and helped construct a bison genealogy establishing that a common maternal ancestor arrived between 130,000 and 195,000 years ago, during a previous ice age.

The nearly complete skeleton, unearthed from 160 - million - year - old mudstone deposits in northwestern China's Junggar Basin, extends the fossil record of alvarezsauroids back in time by a whopping 63 million years — making it about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

The 110 - million - year - old six - inch - wide ten - pound fossil of what appears to be a vertebral fragment, unearthed by amateur fossil hunters at Cedar Mountain, Utah, harbors the earliest known tumors ever recorded.

Yet by 3.5 billion years ago, according to the earliest fossil records, living cells were flourishing, and there are indirect signs of life even earlier, in rocks that are 3.8 billion years old.

At a news conference attended by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the authors unveiled the nearly complete fossil of a nine - month - old female primate that had been found at the site of Messel in Germany.

Oldest known, bacterial «trace fossils» found as mineralized tubes with organic residues in undersea volcanic glass 3.34 billion years old, which were etched by «rock - eating» bacteria along cracks (more).

The Lomekwi area where the tools were found had already produced the fossil skull of early hominin Kenyanthropus platyops by Meave and her team, and the West Turkana Archaeological Project has previously discovered the earliest artifacts from the Oldowan culture known from Kenya, and the world's oldest Acheulean handaxes.

Scientists claim to have discovered the world's oldest fossils in a remote part of Greenland that are around 3.7 billion years old, beating the previous record by more than 200 million years

And by «very ancient,» we're talking some some isolated fossilized bandicoot teeth that may be as old as 50 million years, and entire fossils that may belong to 25 - million - year - old species.

A turtle fossil pulled out of the ground by an 8 - year - old boy in South Africa helped scientists learn more about the early uses and evolution of the turtle shell.

We learn in the February 27 issue of Science that a team working at Illeret, near Lake Turkana in Kenya, or many years the site of fossil finds, has uncovered two trails with footprints estimated to be 1.5 million years old and likely made by individuals assigned to Homo ergaster / erectus.

Fossils of the oldest bird ever pushes back the evolutionary record for birds by nearly six million years.

During a family hike, then 9 - year - old Jude Sparks stumbled on an Ice Age fossil by accident: a stegomastodon skull.

We've seen evolution via real - time observations and ordered series of fossils; evolution could be falsified by finding fossils out of place, such as that of a rabbit in 400 million - year - old sediments; and evolution certainly makes predictions (Darwin predicted, correctly, that human ancestors evolved in Africa).

Discovered by Donald Johanson at Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974 and nicknamed «Lucy» this fossil was the most complete skeleton and oldest member of what was then known of the human lineage but numerous scientists disputed she was truly bipedal, stating this species practiced a form of locomotion intermediate between the quadrupedal tree climbing of chimpanzees and human terrestrial bipedality.

In 2008, a horseshoe crab fossil, the oldest in existence found so far, dated back to around 445 million years ago, according to a report by LiveScience.