Sentences with phrase «palaeontologists at»

«It's interesting to find that tyrannosauroids were definitely here in the south,» says Adam Yates, a palaeontologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who was not involved in the study.

Daniel Fisher, a palaeontologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an author of the latest study, reanalysed the tusk and agrees that the marks were probably caused by butchering, most likely to extract the roughly 7 kilograms of nutritious tissue that would have been found inside.

Fred Spoor, a palaeontologist at University College London who wrote an accompanying News and Views article on the Nature study, speculates that the two species may both have been able to thrive side - by - side because they might not have directly competed for food, shelter and territory.

Erik Sperling, a palaeontologist at Stanford University in California, compiled a database of 4,700 iron measurements taken from rocks around the world, spanning the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods.

James Kirkland, state palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, identified the tooth as coming from the upper jaw of a lungfish in the extinct genus Ceratodus, a freshwater bottom - feeder which used massive tooth plates to crunch shelled animals.

James Kirkland, a palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, identified it as being from a lungfish of the extinct genus Ceratodus, which lived between 160 million and 100 million years ago.

Fortey, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, writes so well and so naturally that you wonder why so many British scientists find this task so hard.

Jean - Claude Rage, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in Paris, thinks that Caldwell makes a valid point.

«It's not what I would have expected, but it seems to fit the evidence in general,» says Tom Holtz, a dinosaur palaeontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

In the late 1960s, new fossils from Montana and Mongolia provided Robert Bakker, a palaeontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with evidence for his controversial claims that dinosaurs were warm - blooded.

«If you saw it hopping around in your back yard, you wouldn't think much of it,» says Robert Carroll, an amphibian palaeontologist at McGill University in Montreal.

Jørn Hurum, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, whose classification of the fossil he called «Ida» has come under fire, says that such a system, if adopted by palaeontologists, «would be fantastic».

Fred Grine, a palaeontologist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, says, «basically what they're looking at comes down to nothing more than biogeography» and that «if you started finding catarrhines in South America, they'd also change the phylogeny».

«It's a story without an ending,» says Wu Xinzhi, a palaeontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing.

«They have plenty of new material to determine that this is a new species of pterosaur,» says Michael Habib, a palaeontologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

The latest study relies on only a few bones, so it does not provide definitive proof that small pterosaur species existed alongside the larger ones, says Alexander Kellner, a palaeontologist at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

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Acrotholus was identified by a team comprising of palaeontologists Evans, of the Royal Ontario Museum; and Ryan, of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; as well as Ryan Schott, Caleb Brown, and Derek Larson, all graduate students at the University of Toronto who studied under Evans.

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Palaeontologists from Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands and the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, studied the fossil using high energy X-rays at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, revealing the structure and development of teeth and bones.

Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, approaches this through the contrasting views of the late Stephen Jay Gould and University of Cambridge palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris.

Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist and Honorary Scientist at The University of Manchester, working with Professor Judy Massare of Brockport College, New York, have studied thousands of ichthyosaur fossils and have delved through hundreds of years of records to solve an ancient mystery.

The flying reptiles remain something of a puzzle, and some palaeontologists even question whether the largest pterosaurs could fly at all.

His father was a pioneer palaeontologist in New Brunswick and at the age of six William discovered a giant trilobite in the local Cambrian shales.

Today, not one curator at the American Museum, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington or the Field Museum in Chicago is a palaeontologist specialising in dinosaurs.

«We're not saying nothing happened,» said co-author Dr William Foster, a palaeontologist from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

«At first we just didn't know what the rod - like bones were,» study author Corwin Sullivan, a Canadian palaeontologist based at The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statemenAt first we just didn't know what the rod - like bones were,» study author Corwin Sullivan, a Canadian palaeontologist based at The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statemenat The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statement.

But when he proposes links between his own historical field and that of climate science he drops all scholarly standards and quotes any old conference paper or telephone conversation he feels like; mad activists and conspiracy theorists like Oreskes and Powell; or Mark Maslin, a professor - cum - company director who combines his job at my old university as palaeontologist or geographer or climatologist (all descriptions of his expertise taken from «the Conversation») with that of director of Rezatec Ltd, a company set up by the Royal Society as a «Leading provider of data - as - a-service geospatial data analytics» to serve those who may be worried to death by forecasts of eco-doom to be found in the books and articles of Mark Maslin.