Sentences with phrase «palaeontologists discovered»

In 1991 palaeontologists discovered one of the largest fossils recovered from Dinosaur Cove — a 43 cm long femur from an extremely fast, ostrich - like dinosaur named Timimus hermani.

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South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200 - million - year - old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word «sefapano.»

Discovered in northern China and acquired recently by palaeontologists from a Chinese fossil dealer, it is about 50 centimetres long and lived 160 million years ago, a few million years before Archaeopteryx graced the skies.

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.

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.

Since these were discovered in the 1850s, palaeontologists have assumed they were the remains of the world's oldest trees, but nobody had confirmed they actually were trees by finding the trunk and branches — until now.

But the findings from the teeth might be overturned if researchers discover other remains, says Eleanor Weston, an independent mammalian palaeontologist in the United Kingdom.

The Burgess Shale (part of the Stephen Formation) was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, and since then has been a scientific window into the rapid diversification of life in the early Cambrian some 505 million years ago that is known as the Cambrian Explosion.

River flooding boosts carbon emissions, six new species of Chinese dragon millipedes discovered, how ancient animals adapted to climate change, maths tell palaeontologists where to find fossils, and the Arctic Ocean was ice - free ten million years ago.