Sentences with phrase «palaeontologists naming»
«New Sesotho - named dinosaur from South Africa: Palaeontologists name 200 - million - year - old dinosaur, Sefapanosaurus.»
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Like palaeontologists or astronomers, cybersecurity firms like to name their new discoveries.
Nate Murphy made his name as a talented amateur palaeontologist.
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.»
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.
Palaeontologists fall into one of two camps when it comes to naming species, «lumpers» and «splitters».
In terms of its regal name, T. rex now has a rival in Rhinorex condrupus, a new dinosaur described by US palaeontologists.
Underlying this striking evolutionary transformation change is a halving in the number of wrist bones, but developmental biologists and palaeontologists have different names for most of them, and seldom agree on the correspondence between specific dinosaur bones and those of their bird descendants.
Palaeontologists were uncertain of the existence of long - snouted tyrannosaurs until the remains of the dinosaur — named Qianzhousaurus sinensis — were unearthed in southern China.
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.