Sentences with phrase «old fossils belong»

Discovered in the sediments of a former lake in Djebel Chambi National Park, Tunisia, the approximately 50 million - year - old fossils belong to a small primate called Djebelemur (lemur of the Djebel).

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That so uncommon an event should have produced such a wondrous array of living and fossil forms can only give strength to an old idea: paleontology that belongs to it alone among the evolutionary sciences and that enlightens all its conclusions — time.

Two 9.7 - million - year - old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported

Researchers have uncovered few below - the - belt fossils, and the most complete one belonged to a roughly 10 - year - old male, the Turkana boy.

It's not clear when or how the 202 - year - old Academy acquired the fossil, but the first scientific description of it in 1849 identified it as belonging to an ancient sea turtle.

The skull, which is among the oldest fossils ever found from that group, called Platanistoidea, confirms that Platanista belongs to one of the oldest lineages of toothed whales still alive today.

Researchers have yet to retrieve DNA from fossils dating between 200,000 and 300,000 years old that either securely or possibly belong to H. sapiens.

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.

Though tracks appear in older fossils from the Triassic Epoch, 200 million to 250 million years ago, those prints belong to more primitive lizardlike reptiles.

The 70 to 80 - million - year - old fossil is too incomplete to be given an exact name, but it is distinctive enough to identify as belonging to a branch of sauropods called titanosaurs (Naturwissenschaften, DOI: 10.1007 / s00114 -011-0869-x).

At 430,000 years old, the fossils are probably too young to belong to H. heidelbergensis, the team argues.

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.

The same traits are seen in 2 - million - to 4 - million - year - old fossils that belong to Australopithecus (Aw - STRAL - oh - PITH - eh - kus).

Scientists found that a 30 - million - year - old fossil flower belonged to an entirely new species of the Strychnos genus.

And in April, scientists discovered fossils belonging to the world's earliest and most primitive pterosaur, a 163 million - year - old find.

The fossils are about 100 million years old, and belong to a group of dinosaurs not previously known to have lived in North America.