Sentences with phrase «old fossil remains»

A professional paleontologist has identified a new species of coelacanth from 100 million - year - old fossil remains found in the fossil - rich Duck Creek Formation,...

Then a clue came in 2008 when the 220 million - year - old fossil remains of an early turtle species, Odontochelys semitestacea, were discovered in China.

Not exact matches

Eight year - old Olivia McConnell wanted to make the mammoth the state fossil of South Carolina, as some mammoth remains had been found in the state.

All talk of who we WOULD like is purely academic, while old fossil face remains manager AND CHAINED TO THE DISTANT PAST.

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.

Rare remains show a primitive shrimp - like creature apparently caring for four juveniles — the oldest example of parental care in the fossil record

To properly age and classify the Mongolian fossil Maelestes gobiensis, estimated to be between 71 million and 75 million years old, Wible and his team compared it with 409 features culled from the skulls, teeth and skeletal remains of other animals ranging in age from present - day mammals to those estimated to have lived over 100 million years ago.

More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.

The new period takes its name from Ediacaran fossils, remains of the oldest - known complex animal life, that were found in abundance in the Ediacaran Hills of South Australia.

Scientists confirmed that it was 300,000 years old — 100,000 years older than fossils from Ethiopia that had held the record as the oldest widely accepted remains of H. sapiens.

«New species of sauropod dinosaur discovered in Tanzania: Fossil remains recovered from 70 to 100 million - year - old rocks in southwestern Tanzania.»

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have identified remains of a 3.5 - million - year - old bear from a fossil - rich site in Canada's High Arctic.

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 August researchers examining fossils in the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid reported the first example of fossilized bone marrow, found in 10 - million - year - old remains of frogs and salamanders.

After the fossils were recovered and ultimately returned, scientists carefully analyzed the embryo — nicknamed «Baby Louie» — and determined that the 90 - million - year - old remains represent a new species of giant oviraptorosaur, which they dubbed Beibeilong sinensis («baby dragon from China»), they report today in Nature Communications.

The researchers concluded it wasn't likely that so many cichlid fossils remain undiscovered: The cichlids» fossil records would have to be 10 to 30 times worse in the older time period than in more recent times — an unlikely scenario, Friedman says.

But last May, paleobotanists at the Florida Museum of Natural History and at Jilin University in Changchun, China, announced fossil remains of «probably the most complete, oldest flowering plant in the world,» says David Dilcher, a scientist who analyzed the 125 - million - year - old fossils.

Using a variety of techniques, including Synchrotron Rapid Scanning X-ray Fluorescence — a chemical imaging method developed at Stanford University that permits the detection of low levels of elements across large surfaces — the team was able to visualize the remains of pigments in several fossil birds, including the 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx and the 125 - million - year - old Confuciusornis.

Although they had found some excellent specimens of the earliest birds, such as Germany's famed 150 - million - year - old Archaeopteryx, as well as stunning later fossils from northeastern China, a 20 - million - year gap remained between Archaeopteryx and other fossils, most of which were opposite birds, Chiappe says.

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.

The discovery was disproved in 1953, when advances in fossil analysis showed definitively that the bones were less than 1000 years old, comprised of human and orangutan remains, and had been artificially stained and filed to imitate aging.

Only during their last days in the field, after dreadful walks through knee - deep mud, they made a truly exciting discovery in 66 million year - old rocks: The fossil remains of a particularly large skull of a Mosasaur, a giant sea lizard.

The fossil remains of a 3.2 million years old hominid skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia (November 24th).

Just a couple of weeks ago, an amateur fossil hound uncovered the remains of 200 year - old diosaurs, formerly embedded in a sea side cliff.

Palaeontologists have uncovered the remains of some of humanity's oldest ancestors along the fossil - rich Jurassic Coast in the UK.

Visit Atapuerca, near the town of Burgos, where the oldest known hominin fossil remains in Europe have been unearthed.

Visit Tanzania where two million year old fossils suggest it was home to the world's first humans; wander among Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills to discover rock paintings illustrating early religious beliefs, foraging traditions and human progress; and meet the Massai People of Kenya to understand the cultural heritage of one of Africa's remaining semi-nomadic tribes.

«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»