Sentences with word «palaeobiology»

Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath

Sarah Gabbott, Professor of Palaeobiology from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, said: «When we first saw the large worm curled around, almost hugging, lots of tiny worms, we suspected that we had uncovered an adult with offspring.

A new study from the University of Bristol, led by Masters of Palaeobiology student Eddy Strickson, has presented clear evidence about how plant - eating dinosaurs evolved.

Says Dr Jonah Choiniere, co-author and Senior Researcher in Dinosaur Palaeobiology at the ESI at Wits University: «This new animal shines a spotlight on southern Africa and shows us just how much more we have to learn about the ecosystems of the past, even here in our own «backyard».

It's hotly contested in palaeobiology circles.

Estimates of body size and proportions are crucial in the evolutionary interpretation of Plio - Pleistocene hominin palaeobiology (McHenry, 1991, 1992; Ruff et al., 1997; Grabowski et al., 2015) and have been the subject of ongoing debates, at least since the late 1970s (e.g., Johanson and White, 1979).

Jan Zalasiewicz, Professor of Palaeobiology from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology explained: «Plastics were more or less unknown to our grandparents, when they were children.

Keith Bennett is professor of late - Quaternary environmental change at Queen's University Belfast, guest professor in palaeobiology at Uppsala University in Sweden, and author of Evolution and Ecology: The Pace of Life (Cambridge University Press).

Philip J. Currie is a professor of dinosaur palaeobiology at the University of Alberta in Canada and president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Simon Conway Morris, professor of evolutionary palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is featured in the Cambridge alumni magazine for Lent 2012.

Dr Tom Stubbs, another co-leader and Research Associate in Palaeobiology in the School of Earth Sciences: «Our work has been done using new methods of evolutionary analysis.

But now, they are indispensable to our lives,» says Jan Zalasiewicz, Professor of Palaeobiology from the University of Leicester's Department of Geology.

Simon Conway Morris, professor of evolutionary palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is featured in the Cambridge alumni magazine...

«It's most intriguing,» says Richard Bateman, curator of palaeobiology at the museum.

Lead author of the study Elizabeth Martin - Silverstone, a Palaeobiology PhD Student at the University of Southampton, said: «This new pterosaur is exciting because it suggests that small pterosaurs were present all the way until the end of the Cretaceous, and weren't outcompeted by birds.

«Secondly, palaeobiology can also supply very useful information,» states Dirk Schmeller.

«Our discovery suggests that the current scientific consensus is mistaken not only about when the first tetrapods evolved, but also about where they evolved,» says Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki of the Department of Palaeobiology and Evolution at the University of Warsaw in Poland, who discovered the footprints in 2002 in an old quarry near the town of Kielce.

In Asher R, Mueller J (eds) From clone to bone: the synergy of morphological and molecular tools in palaeobiology: 83 - 165 (Cambridge University Press)

Graham is professor of evolutionary palaeobiology at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Our knowledge of the anatomy and thus relationships of non-dinosaurian Dinosauromorpha is still deficient, and we suspect that future discoveries will continue to reveal novel patterns and hypotheses of palaeobiology and biogeography.

Professor Emily Rayfield, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol and project lead, said: «Our research does not cast doubt on Darwin's ideas, far from it.