Sentences with phrase «older fossils of»

While older fossils of modern humans have been found in Africa, the timing and routes of modern human migration out of Africa are key issues for understanding the evolution of our own species, said the researchers.

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.

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.»

We obtain a genome sequence from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating to 38,700 to 36,200 years ago, one of the oldest fossils of Anatomically Modern Humans from Europe.

Until this year, the oldest evidence of copulation in higher animals came from 180 - million - year - old fossils of fish giving birth.

The 160 million - year - old fossil of an extinct rodent - like creature from China is helping to explain how multituberculates — the most evolutionarily successful and long - lived mammalian lineage in the fossil record — achieved their dominance.

The recent dates suggest that like the 60,000 - to 100,000 - year - old fossils of tiny H. floresiensis (the «Hobbit») in Indonesia, H. naledi was a «twig off the mainstream of Homo — some little relic of a relatively archaic population,» Kimbel says.

Palaeontologists have just finished conserving a 180 million - year - old fossil of Plesiosaurs dolichodeirus, a marine reptile discovered in Lyme Regis in the 1830's.

TINY TOMATILLO A 52 - million - year - old fossil of a tomatillo includes the plant's papery outer sheath, and remnants of the blackened berry, which has since turned to coal.

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 mountains are home to Denisova cave, famous for the 2010 discovery of 50,000 - year - old fossils of a new kind of human, the Denisovans.

They have found the oldest fossil of a true frog yet discovered.

The oldest fossil of that life comes from a remote desert site in Western Australia called North Pole.

52 - million - year - old fossils of lantern fruit demonstrate ancient Gondwanan history for the diverse nightshade family.

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

Wilf et al. present 52 - million - year - old fossils of lantern fruits from Argentina, which they ascribe to the modern genus Physalis.

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.

Instead, it describes a 47 - million - year - old fossil of an animal dubbed Darwinius masillae.

Last May, for example, scientists reported the discovery of a 47 - million - year - old fossil of a primate called Darwinius.

Among the reasons for the wonder of the underground river, Labit said, are: being its largest and important underground estuaries of the world; most complex cave systems in the world; naturally sustainable due to the very high amount of energy resulting from its unique thermal equator location, marine climate, wind and humidity; it contains unique cave formations from secondary mineral deposits not found elsewhere; discovery of a 20 million - year - old fossil of sirenia or sea cow in perfect condition.

Not exact matches

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from old - fashioned air pollution, generated by electric power plants that burn fossil fuels.

I know this not only from personal conversations with my fellow fossils, but also through a discussion with an accountant recently in which he told me that the number one reason most of his older clients haven't retired yet is because they are afraid to before they are eligible for Medicare.

My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the extraction and export of fossil fuels, rather than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

The evidence is every ancient fossil they uncover which carbon dating will tell is millions of years old instantly proofing creationism false.

As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.

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

Topher, if you think the earth is only 6,000 years old or so, what do you make of dinosaur fossils?

I'm guessing you are not so stupid as to ignore all the fossil evidence, carbon dating, and light source definition from other planets and still believe that the earth is not 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.

Of course, we may be wrong to think that we truly remembered those long - lost almost - humans: Perhaps instead they were only speculative imaginings to explain old bones and arrowheads, fossils and mysterious cave paintings — just as our own stories about Neanderthals are also, mostly, fantasies.

The formation of any major mountain range — the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, the Rockies, with sedimentary fossils at high alt!tude should be abundant evidence that the earth is much much older than 10,000 years.

This view holds that the entire cosmos is around 6,000 years old, that the fossil record was laid down almost in its entirety during a literal, global worldwide flood, that God created humans directly out of dust, and that Adam and Eve are the progenitors of the entire human race.

NO WAIT, there is fossil evidence that we are much much older and the earth is billions of years old

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.

It isn't a group of people standing around agreeing with one another that a fossil is old.

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.

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!

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.

That and hiding fossils that, for all the world, test as millions of years old, as well as a mountain of other evidence, if he's responsible for faking all of it then he is seriously twisted and not at all interested in «the truth.»

For example, you all disagree with us that the earth is 6 - 10,000 years old because of you think fossils are millions of years old.

A 195,000 year old fossil from the Omo 1 site in Ethiopia shows the beginnings of the skull changes that we associate with modern people, including a rounded skull case and possibly a projecting chin.

LinCA — it is entirely your choice if you would like to take a bunch of fossils over the indescribably fine tuned nature of our universe — the archaeological and historical proof of the old testament — the incontrovertible proof of the life of Jesus — sure go ahead and take the fossils... as forest gump says

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

What if I'm a progressive creationist who agrees that the age of the Earth is billions of years old but that God spoke into existence each of the species we have in the fossil record.

Of course there are many Religious Right advocates that do not accept historic or scientific facts and believe in Creationism over proven Evolution, believe the earth is 5000 years old instead of Billions reguardless of the fossil and rock recorOf course there are many Religious Right advocates that do not accept historic or scientific facts and believe in Creationism over proven Evolution, believe the earth is 5000 years old instead of Billions reguardless of the fossil and rock recorof Billions reguardless of the fossil and rock recorof the fossil and rock record.

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.

As for the transitional fossils, the moving of the goal posts is what gets old.

They then pick the date they like best, based upon their preconceived notion of how old their theory says the fossil should be (based upon the Geologic column).