Sentences with phrase «old fossils found»

The new study analyzes a 430 - million - year - old fossil found recently in southern Scotland that, unlike previously described fossils, had a tail preserved in a highly curved configuration, suggesting it would have been well - equipped to finish off prey held firm with its small front limbs, the researchers report today in The American Naturalist.

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.

Prior to the team's discovery, the oldest fossils found on Earth were estimated to be about 3.7 billion years old.

It is reanalysing old fossil finds and pouring tens of millions of dollars a year into excavations.

Not exact matches

Those clinging to the old ways may find themselves stranded, just like fossil fuel assets.

Scientists many years ago claimed a tooth found was Nebraska Man, a pre-human fossil millions of years old.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

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.

Carbon - 14 found in fossils at all layers of the geological spectrum, is evidence, which confirms, the Biblical account of the earth being thousands, Not, billions of years old!

This week I recorded and watched the History Channel documentary, «The Link,» which featured the recent scientific findings surrounding a miraculously intact primate fossil, estimated to be about 47 - million years old.

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.

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.

A further interesting and little publicized fact: scientific analysis of some of the oldest human fossils ever found on the planet has shown that breast milk was the principal form of food for the first three to four years of life [vi].

Anning was no more than 13 years old when she found her first notable fossil, in 1812: the fossilized body matching the Ichthyosaurus skull her older brother had uncovered the previous year.

Finding evidence of malformation mechanisms in 252 million year old pollen fossils is impossible, so Looy and others have looked for other ways to determine whether increased UV - B disrupted the end - Permian ecosystem.

He adds that other recent finds suggest that water birds such as penguins did the same thing: Earlier this year, researchers reported finding a 61 - million - year - old fossil of a 1.5 - meter - tall penguin in what is today New Zealand.

ANCIENT MOUTHFUL Researchers who discovered and analyzed a nearly complete set of 2 - million - year - old fossil teeth from a lower jaw suspect that the East African find comes from an early member of the human genus, Homo habilis.

One researcher says he has the oldest fossils ever found; another says that's just mangled, pressure - cooked rock.

Of the many media outlets that covered her paper detailing her discovery of the oldest known vocal organ specimen found in an ancient bird fossil, several took liberties in their interpretations of its results.

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.

In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research, found what she believed to be medullary bone in the femur of a 68 million year old T. rex fossil (MOR 1125).

But detailed study of the newly discovered fossil's teeth, jaws and skull shows it to be the oldest member yet found of the order Proboscidea, of which elephants are the only living survivors.

To start, the trio butchered a sheep carcass with sharp stone flakes and found that the cutmarks indeed resembled those found on two different Australopithecine fossil arm bones — one dating to 4.2 million years ago and the other to 3.4 million years ago — as well as 2.5 - million - year - old animal bones discovered near the known stone tools in the Olduvai Gorge.

Primary bone tumors are rare in modern populations, thus, finding a tumor in a fossil so old is a unique discovery.

Gibbons focuses on the people who hunt and find fossils like the 3.5 - million - year - old australopithecine Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, and the hominid skull Toumaï, which was found in Chad in 2001 and dates from 6 million to 7 million years old — close to the time when our lineage split from that of chimpanzees.

The strange, 300 million - year - old Tully monster, with its jointed proboscis and dorsal eye bar, is known from fossils found only in northeastern Illinois

Found in Ethiopia, this roughly 195,000 - year - old skull known as Omo I is the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil.

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 tyrannosaurs

Dr Russell Garwood, from Manchester's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said: «This is an especially exciting find due to the age of the rocks — these fossils are found in rock layers which actually pre-date the oldest fossils of complex animals — at least that is what all current fossil records would suggest.»

Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have found fossils of 1.6 billion - year - old probable red algae.

Researchers have found one of the oldest and most detailed fossils of the central nervous system yet identified, from a crustacean - like animal that lived more than 500 million years ago.

In rocks between 420 and 375 million years old, though, giant log - like fossils can be found.

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université de Poitiers, working in collaboration with teams from the Université de Lille 1, Université de Rennes 1, the French National History Museum and Ifremer, have discovered, in clay sediments from Gabon, fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms ever found (Nature, 2010).

The first Neandertal fossils were discovered in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, and in 1848 at Forbes» Quarry, Gibraltar, but were not recognized as an early human species until after the 1856 discovery of «Neandertal 1» — a 40,000 - year - old specimen, including a skullcap and various bones, found at the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany.

The finding comes from inspection of a 36 - million - year - old fossil discovered in Peru and dubbed Inkayacu paracasensis.

This finger bone (four sides shown) represents the oldest directly dated human fossil found outside of Africa and the Levant.

But the tantalizing discoveries of 100,000 - year - old stone tools found in the mountains of Oman and decidedly human fossils in the Israeli Levant dating to 177,000 to 194,000 years ago forced anthropologists to consider the possibility of earlier migrations.

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

Stephen Munro, holding the skullcap of Trinil 2, aka «Java Man,» discovered the oldest known engraving on shells found near the fossil.

BEASTLY BREAKOUT Fossil finds have pushed aside old views of dinos, like the 1853 beasts in London's Crystal Palace Park (background).

So although there are Paleolithic fossils as old as 30,000 years, finding one with usable DNA fragments is a separate matter entirely.

Various specimens of Africa's earliest coelacanth have been found in a 360 million year - old fossil estuary near Grahamstown, in South Africa's Eastern Cape.

Those fossils from Myanmar were found in ticks about 100 million years old.

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.

Scientists have spent decades searching for the missing link between the two creatures, and now it seems they finally found it in the form of a 505 - million - year - old fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale: Spartobranchus tenuis (pictured in the illustrated artist's conception).

17 The oldest carnivorous plant leaf fossil, from a relative of Roridula, was found in Baltic amber that's 35 million to 47 million years old.

Excavated from Sterkfontein Cave over more than a decade, Little Foot is the oldest hominin fossil — and one of the most complete — ever found in South Africa.

The Poinars were sufficiently convinced of the potential for amber as a remarkable natural preservative to pursue the possibility of finding fossil tissue and cellular material far older than any previously identified.

The footprints — combined with new fossil finds and a detailed study of older samples — present a new picture of the winged giants.