Sentences with phrase «palaeontologists from»

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 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.

Using a combination of biomechanical analysis and bone histology, palaeontologists from Beijing, Bristol, and Bonn have shown how one of the best - known dinosaurs switched from four feet to two as it grew.

The international team, including palaeontologist from The University of Manchester, found a new set of trace fossils left by some of the first ever organisms capable of active movement.

«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.

Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is a palaeontologist from Columbia who gets dragged to Antarctica for her expertise in, um, sticking cameras into carcasses, I guess.

Not exact matches

Step - by - step, palaeontologists can see the switch from peg - like reptilian teeth to the differentiated teeth of mammals (incisors, canines, molars).

Palaeontologists have worked for decades to interpret these fossils, and looked for new ways to extract more information from teeth,» Dr Evans said.

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.»

«New Sesotho - named dinosaur from South Africa: Palaeontologists name 200 - million - year - old dinosaur, Sefapanosaurus.»

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.

Matters of theory rarely disturbed the 20th - century palaeontologists; they assigned species names to practically every fossil they found until biologist Ernst Mayr, wielding insights from genetics, stunned them into embarrassed silence.

Now palaeontologists claim to have obtained DNA directly from dinosaur fossils.

But they were found separated from one another, so palaeontologists do not know how the skull fitted together.

In 1979, after inspecting several ichthyosaurs from the UK, palaeontologist Dr Robert Appleby announced a new type of ichthyosaur called Protoichthyosaurus.

«Illegally exported from Mongolia, Halszka resided in private collections around the world before it was acquired in 2015 and offered to palaeontologists for study and to prepare its return to Mongolia.»

Together with the palaeontologist Jean Vannier (CNRS / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / ENS de Lyon) and other colleagues, the zoologist Brigitte Schoenemann from the University of Cologne played a leading role in this research.

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.

Lacking the political clout needed to extract billions from government agencies, dinosaur palaeontologists are taking a different course.

A Swiss - American team of palaeontologists headed by Torsten Scheyer and Carlo Romano from the University of Zurich demonstrate in their new study that the food nets during the Early Triassic did not recover in stages.

Palaeontologists had earlier traced frog fossils back to the Jurassic period, which lasted from 200 to 145 million years ago.

Pedley argues that sauropod dinosaurs could not have browsed from the treetops, as some palaeontologists have suggested.

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 catarrhine family tree — one of two primate lineages, and the one that includes humans — regularly attracts requests for revision from palaeontologists bearing fossils such as Ida, according to palaeobiologist James Tarver, lead author of the latest study.

There's only so much palaeontologists can learn about prehistoric animals from fossilized bones, so on rare occasions when ancient soft tissues turn up, it's worth taking note.

«Until we began to document fossilised brains, nerve cords and optic nerves from the Cambrian, neuroanatomists and palaeontologists did their studies in parallel but didn't really work with each other.

Palaeontologists don't know what the Denisovans looked like, but studies of DNA recovered from their teeth and bones indicate that this ancient population contributed to the genomes of modern humans, especially Australian Aborigines, Papua New Guineans and Polynesians — suggesting that Denisovans might have roamed Asia.

But many researchers, including most Chinese palaeontologists, contend that the materials from China are different from European and African H. heidelbergensis fossils, despite some apparent similarities.

Most Chinese palaeontologists — and a few ardent supporters from the West — think that the transitional fossils are evidence that Peking Man was an ancestor of modern Asian people.

by Andrew Cuff * 1 Introduction: One of the biggest challenges palaeontologists face is how to reconstruct whole animals from their fossils.

Because of this striking life history, the semi-aquatic bugs have fascinated scientists from various disciplines, including naturalists, applied mathematicians, ecologists, Taxonomists, Palaeontologists, and recently developmental geneticists.

Bridget Fonda is the palaeontologist taking some time out from the big city.

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.

Palaeontologists test theories of evolutionary relationships by predicting the nature of intermediate forms that might (with luck) be found — a recent example is the feathered «dino - bird» from China, which corresponded quite nicely with Heilbrunner's predicted precursor for Archaeopteryx from 1912 or so.

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.

Those «lines» from our highly salaried Palaeontologist weather guru, cost us taxpayers desalination plants worth $ 5.7 billion in Victoria, $ 1.8 million in South Australia, $ 2bn in NSW and $ 1.2 bn in Queensland.

Centuries from now — archaeologists and palaeontologists will be sifting through what were communities of isolated - candle - lit hovels and find the remains of the 21st Century wind - worship - cult that ended up living in the Stone Age poverty that they were ready to foist upon everybody else.

Dr. Robert M. Carter was a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 30 years professional experience, and held degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England).