Sentences with phrase «old shell fossils»

Along the way you'll discover tall stands of aromatic blue gum trees, 300 - million - year - old shell fossils embedded in limestone cliffs, white talcum - powder beaches, lichen covered boulders, and soaring dolerite columns, as well as more wombats than you are likely to see anywhere else on Earth.

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

The oldest known fossil turtle dated back about 210 million years, but it had an already fully formed shell, giving no clues to early shell evolution.

Until recently, the oldest known fossil turtles, dating back about 215 million years, had fully developed shells, making it hard to see the sequence of evolutionary events that produced them.

Odontochelys semitestacea, the oldest turtle fossil yet, has a fully formed lower shell, or plastron, but lacks a fully formed upper shell

Now, a handful of 480 - million - year - old fossils from southeastern Morocco suggests that those progenitors may have resembled a spine - covered slug that wore a small toenail - shaped shell on its head.

Twenty million years older than the oldest known fossil of a direct turtle ancestor, Eunotosaurus africanus has broadened ribs inside its body and elongated vertebrae in its spine compared with other reptiles, but those bones aren't fully fused to form an external shell as is the case in modern turtles.

Unlike their modern relatives, the 4.8 - 6.6 million - year - old fossil cone shells often appear white and without a pattern when viewed in regular visible light.

A team of Carnegie scientists have found «beautifully preserved» 15 million - year - old thin protein sheets in fossil shells from southern Maryland.

«These are some of the oldest and best - preserved examples of a protein ever observed in a fossil shell,» Hazen said.

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.

The shells in the fossil bed at Punta Baja are said to be as old as the sea itself.

Scientists made the discovery while looking for clues in tiny fossil shells in blocks of Shropshire limestone thought to be around 510 million years old.

In the face of climate change, we have the dual challenge of both resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure projects and building a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy in the shell of the old.