Sentences with phrase «other paleontologists»

Even still, I came to understand how dozens of other paleontologists had failed to notice them.

Over millions of years, our human and primate ancestors left a trail of teeth that she and other paleontologists have followed for clues to our evolutionary history.

There, Liu spotted what many other paleontologists before him had somehow missed: a series of sinuous traces thought to be left behind by organisms of the Ediacaran biota, the planet's earliest known forms of animal life.

Other paleontologists have praised the discovery but are divided on the issue of how to classify the new hominin.

That has allowed her to see things other paleontologists have missed — and potentially to shatter fundamental assumptions about how much we can learn from the past.

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

Not exact matches

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

The other possibility, says Persons, is a smaller theropod called Nanotyrannus lancensis, which some paleontologists suggest is merely an immature T. rex, as opposed to a separate species.

However, since 2002 paleontologists have unearthed a couple of other ornithischians with primitive bristle or furlike feathers.

Based on a popular book of the same name by paleontologist Neil Shubin, the three - part series Your Inner Fish traces our often unexpected evolutionary connections with other species, including reptiles and shrews.

Drs. Harmand and Lewis co-directed the fieldwork and analysis of the findings as part of an international, multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, paleoanthropologists; there are 19 other co-authors on the paper.

Paleontologists at the University of Chicago are setting up a laboratory to look for similar tissue in more T. rex remains; Horner is starting to decalcify other dinosaur bones.

It's certainly possible that Chilesaurus is something other than a theropod, «but the analysis they use to test this is problematic,» says Martin Ezcurra, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Argentine Natural Science Museum who was an author on the original Chilesaurus paper.

Because the other individuals were smaller, and because pieces of some of their vertebrae hadn't fully fused, those creatures are presumed to be juveniles, says Xing Xu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

Paleontologist Dennis Voeten and colleagues decided to look for other features that might indicate the dino - birds flapped their wings while flying.

Paleontologists can sometimes return to the site where a specimen was removed and find other fossils missed by the earlier excavation.

This past February the Origins Project that I direct at Arizona State University helped to convene an interesting meeting of paleontologists, anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, archaeologists and psychologists to attempt to address such questions, among others.

Some 40 percent of other mammals in the area seem to have experienced similar shrinking and subsequent growth, notes co-author Ross Secord, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln.

Paleontologists once assumed the dinosaurs were somehow superior, with physical features that helped them outcompete the other reptiles.

The paleontologists who analyzed two partial skulls found in South Carolina — one recently discovered by a diver and the other unearthed from the same formation more than 30 years ago — put the long - extinct creature in a new genus dubbed Inermorostrum, which roughly translated from Latin means «defenseless snout.»

«It's problematic that no other lab has been able to replicate Mary Schweitzer's work,» says Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, who's tried to do so.

New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species, Troodon formosus, is no longer a valid classification, naming two others in its stead.

While many paleontologists are intrigued by Olsen's evidence, others have scoffed.

The Belgian paleontologist has studied the remains of other older canids in Eurasia and believes some of them were early dogs — a controversial theory, but one this new research suggests may be correct.

In the last few years, cutting - edge CT scans and other novel techniques have dramatically altered how paleontologists visualize and study ancient life.

«These fossils allow us to flesh out the community and add to our understanding of the community's composition and how it differed from other places in the world,» says Donald Brinkman, vertebrate paleontologist and director of preservation and research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.

Climate change and imported disease may have killed them, but most paleontologists accept the theory Martin advocates: «When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.»

By studying 81 skeletons and 477 skeletal features or characters, paleontologists conclude that the fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus that they rightfully belong to a different genus.

But Witmer's work, and the work of a handful of other young paleontologists who are approaching the soft - tissue questions with scientific methods, may ultimately allow artists to flesh out dinosaurs with more hard data.

Paleontologist Ron Tykoski looked at the rocks when they arrived at the Perot a few months later with 11,000 pounds of other material from the Alaskan dig.

This growth strategy has not been seen in any other tree in Earth's history, says Xu Hong - He, a paleontologist at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in China who discovered the fossilized tree trunks.

«The concentration of mammal tracks on this site is orders of magnitude higher than any other site in the world,» said Martin Lockley, paleontologist with the University of Colorado, Denver, a co-author on the new paper.

Most of the time, though, paleontologists had ignored maxilloturbinals or confused them with other turbinals that both reptiles and mammals use for smelling rather than for recycling water.

Paleontologists clash with commercial collectors over the legal sale of dinosaur skeletons and other important fossils

«Any other color would have long since rotted away,» says Maria McNamara, a paleontologist at University College Cork in the United Kingdom and lead author of the study.

«Most other material is extracted by dissolving the bone,» says co-author and paleontologist Robert Reisz of the University of Toronto Mississauga.

These and other details about the two animals that lived about 142 million years ago were presented by biologist Pernille Venø Troelsen from University of Southern Denmark on July 10 2015 at XIII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Opole, Poland.

In addition to investigating snotworm evolution, Glover is working with paleontologists to study the structure of the holes Osedax carves into bone, so he and others can refine their search of the fossil record.

Arthur Cruickshank, a paleontologist at the Leicester City Museum, believes the heavy ribs were for ballast, indicating that the animal perhaps hunted at greater depths than other marine reptiles.

The novel features helped paleontologists determine that the dinosaur was a new species but raised other questions in the process, says Alexander Kellner, the paper's coauthor.

«Paleontologists identify new 507 - million - year - old sea creature with can opener - like pincers: Discovery points to origin of millipedes, crabs and insects among other species.»

«It's impossible not to be excited to reach remote sites via helicopter and icebreaker to look for dinosaurs and other life forms from over 66 million years ago,» said Julia Clarke, a paleontologist at the UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, in the team's press release detailing the expedition.

Based on the position of fossils in the layers of the Earth's crust, paleontologists can determine which animals predate other animals and which animals lived at the same time.

The disocvery of this plant specimen suggests that other similar species likely evolved during the same period, and await discovery by biologists and paleontologists.

«Some could jump, some could burrow, others could climb trees and many more lived on the ground,» said researcher Zhe - Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago.

Relating stratigraphy to time that is used by geologists, paleontologists and other earth.

A paleontologist also invents several newer applications of other basic sciences like physics, chemistry, and biology to study the fossils.

According to the company's website, its authors include economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, physicist Richard Feynman, and historians Peter Gay, Jonathan Spence, Christopher Lasch, and George F. Kennan as welll as Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry; Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize - winning best - seller Guns, Germs, and Steel; Judy Rogers's The Zuni Café Cookbook; Patrick O'Brian's naval adventures and others.

I'm grateful to Krista Tippett, the host of the captivating public radio program «On Being,» for including me in an exploration of the present - day resonance of «noosphere,» the concept of an emerging global intelligence shaped in the early 20th century by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, philosopher and paleontologist (with others).

If National Geographic or some leading group of paleontologists asked a proponent researcher from one side or the other to join a committee, there wouldn't be organized efforts to say that so - and - so can not possibly be appropriate, and we will osracize anyone who continues to invite or associate with him or her.