Sentences with phrase «oldest complete skeleton»

A television documentary will follow Museum scientists as they help deduce the astonishing facial appearance of Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man.

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In 2008, he discovered the most complete skeleton yet published of an ancient African hominin, 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

The 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton was the most complete example of Australopithecus afarensis ever found.

Fifteen hundred hours of digging into northwest India's sedimentary rock has brought forth the nearly complete skeleton of a 150 - million - year - old ichthyosaur — a marine reptile that roamed the seas in the age of dinosaurs, National Geographic reports.

Last September, zoologist Marcelo Sánchez - Villagra of the University of Tübingen in Germany unveiled the «exceptionally complete skeleton» of an 8 - million - year - old swampland forager that was by far the largest rodent ever known: roughly nine feet long and more than 1,500 pounds.

He discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a young adult male, which radiocarbon dating established at around 8,500 years old, making Kennewick Man one of the oldest and most complete human skeletons from North America.

The complete cat skeleton was next to a 9500 - year - old human burial, suggesting that the feline was tame.

It didn't take long before her team unearthed a nearly complete skeleton — with feathers — of a 36 - million - year - old penguin whose swimming length measures about 1.5 meters.

The nearly complete skeleton is about 15 million years older than the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx.

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.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.

The 150 - million - year - old bones turned out to be a nearly complete skeleton of a nine - foot - long carnivorous marine reptile.

August 15, 2013 Earliest complete fossil from major group of ancient mammal discovered Flexible ankles and versatile ridged teeth were the key adaptations that allowed mutituberculates to become the most successful group of ancient mammals, as revealed with the discovery of a 160 million - year - old fossil — the earliest known complete skeleton of a multituberculate.

Discovered by Donald Johanson at Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974 and nicknamed «Lucy» this fossil was the most complete skeleton and oldest member of what was then known of the human lineage but numerous scientists disputed she was truly bipedal, stating this species practiced a form of locomotion intermediate between the quadrupedal tree climbing of chimpanzees and human terrestrial bipedality.

Seeing complete modern skeletons makes identifying very old, fragmented fossil bones a bit easier in the field.

May 22, 2017 3.3 million - year - old fossil reveals origins of the human spine Analysis of a 3.3 million - year - old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, enabling efficient walking motions millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Groundbreaking DNA research has shone new light on the early origins of Britain's early settlers, reconstructing in unprecedented detail the face of Cheddar Man, the nation's oldest near - complete skeleton, revealing that he had much darker features than was previously assumed.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

A college student discovered a human skull in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996, and the nearly complete skeleton was unearthed and determined to be 9,500 years old.

Found in 1996, the oldest near - complete human skeleton in North America was immediately controversial.

Whales fill a big part of Eden's history and no visit is complete without visiting the Killer Whale Museum which is home to numerous pictorial displays, full sized artifacts, television presentations and the authentic skeleton of «Old Tom» leader of a killer whale pack in 1929.

This version is a complete rewrite of the old game, to coincide with the release of Skeleton Key HD for iPad.