Sentences with phrase «older fossil unearthed»

THE record for the oldest feathered dinosaur, which has stood since the discovery of Archaeopteryx, has finally fallen to an even older fossil unearthed in China.

OUR KIND Approximately 300,000 - year - old fossils unearthed in Morocco, including this lower jaw, come from the oldest known Homo sapiens, researchers contend.

Two years ago, Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut of the College of France unveiled a clutch of 6 - million - year - old fossils unearthed in Kenya's Tugen Hills.

Not exact matches

Mar. 13, 2013 — Canada's 505 million year - old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery - this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti - shaped creature.

Mar. 13, 2013 — Canada's 505 million year - old Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park, have yielded yet another major scientific discovery — this time with the unearthing of a strange spaghetti - shaped creature.

The 121 - million - year - old fossil, unearthed in northeast China, displays a large skull, developed feathers and a hardened skeleton — all precocial features.

MARY and LOUIS LEAKEY, who married in 1936, unearthed a number of important hominid fossils, including 2 - million - year - old Homo habilis, or «handy man.»

The fossils he unearthed — some relatively fresh, others millions of years old — have tremendous significance in the history of science, Lister contends.

The first fossil feathers were discovered in 1861 in a limestone quarry in Germany, where workers unearthed a 145 - million - year - old bird, Archaeopteryx.

The fossil hunters unearthed about 55 percent of the 65 - million - year - old skeleton — encased in a mixture of mud and sand known in paleontological jargon as the matrix — and sold it to the British businessman Graham Lacey, reportedly for $ 5 million to $ 8 million.

Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.

The new lagerpetid (Ixalerpeton) and saurischian dinosaur (Buriolestes) were unearthed from the ~ 230 - million - year - old Carnian Santa Maria Formation — one of the oldest known rock units including dinosaur fossils anywhere in the world.

The 4 - hectare site has yielded closely packed, beautifully preserved fossils that are the oldest hominins known outside of Africa, including five skulls, about 50 skeletal bones, and an as - yet - unpublished pelvis unearthed 2 years ago.

But an international team of scientists from the U.S., Germany and Turkey report this week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology that it found evidence of the disease in a 500,000 - year - old hominid fossil unearthed in western Turkey.

In the dark red dirt of Madagascar, scientists have unearthed what they claim are the oldest dinosaur fossils ever found.

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.

The fossil was unearthed from 125 - million - year - old rocks in central Spain.

Director of the Chinese archaeological site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing, Jia helped unearth 45 fossils of Homo erectus, a 1.8 - million - year - old hominid that may be a human ancestor.

Fossils of the ancient leviathan were unearthed from 480 - million - year - old rocks exposed on a hillside in southeastern Morocco.

Fossils of the newly described pterosaur were unearthed from 120 - million - year - old rocks at two sites in northeastern China.

The team considered more than 5500 fossils of beetles collected at more than 200 sites worldwide (including the 45 - million - year - old fossil of a weevil unearthed in Colorado, shown).

The bones of this 10 - million - year - old great ape, unearthed in Hungary, may be the closest fossil hunters have come to finding the last common ancestor of humans and African apes; the two groups diverged around 7 million to 9 million years ago.

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.

2015 A jawbone unearthed in Ethiopia could, some suggest, be the oldest fossil of our Homo genus.

In what may be the oldest known example of one insect parasitizing another, researchers have unearthed a 52 - million - year - old fossil of a beetle that takes advantage of an ant.

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.

Scientists have unearthed a new bird species from fossils in the Canadian Arctic dating back about 90 million years, making them the oldest records of avian species found so far north and suggesting an intense warming event occurred during the late Cretaceous period.

The ancient fossil of a 40 million - year - old «walking whale» has been unearthed by Peruvian palaeontologists.

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