Sentences with word «palaeontology»

In the early 1980s, Currie played a lead role in the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta.

It seems inevitable that Matthew should have developed an interest in palaeontology very early in life.

«The butterfly - shaped frill, or neck shield, of Mercuriceratops is unlike anything we have seen before,» said co-author Dr. David Evans, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Michael Taylor is curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Their findings are now available online as an open access article at the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology website and will appear in its forthcoming January / February 2017 print edition.

Researchers Nicola Heckeberg, Gertrud Rössner and colleagues at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU and the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology) have now partially sequenced mitochondrial DNA samples from museum specimens of five deer species for which molecular data were not previously available.

Courtenay has activities to offer every visitor, whether it's hiking the trails of Strathcona Park, mountain biking, year - round golfing, visiting local wineries and farms, or even fossil hunting at the Courtenay and District Museum & Palaeontology Centre.

The findings were published on Thursday in the journal Palaeontology.

«[Switek] offer [s] a compelling mixture of reliable information, personal experiences and thoughts, anecdotes about paleontological research and even science philosophy, delivered in a breezy and engaging style... [he] paints a comprehensive picture of how our understanding of dinosaur evolution gradually advances... Switek has succeeded in covering a wide range of interesting topics in dinosaur palaeontology with infectious enthusiasm.»

Aria was part of the team that discovered the site in 2012, led by Jean - Bernard Caron, an associate professor at U of T's Departments of Earth Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the ROM, and Robert Gaines, associate professor at the Department of Geology at Pomona College in California, both co-authors of the study.

The scientific paper describing the find, entitled «The oldest Asian Hesperornithiform from the Upper Cretaceous of Japan, and the phylogenetic reassessment of Hesperornithiformes,» has been posted on the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology website.

Speaking at the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada estimated the fish must have been at least 4 metres long — twice the size of lungfish today.

Poaching is as bad a problem to palaeontology as grave robbing is to archaeology.

McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, is as quick and nimble as Indiana Jones, but he identifies more closely with Sherlock Holmes.

«You have a heck of a lot more chance of finding the trace of an organism than you do the actual organism itself,» says Lisa Buckley, a palaeontologist at Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre in British Columbia, Canada.

«Dinosaur palaeontology is in a state of unprecedented vigour,» claims Peter Dodson, a lecturer in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

You can pull from palaeontology, you can look at experiments, you can find actual examples of speciation events that have happened in our lifetimes, and yes, genetics too.

The assumption of uniformitarian palaeontology that countless animals had experienced natural or violent deaths before Adam's Fall is just that: a mere assumption with no corroborative evidence.

Beyond such considerations, however, the task of marrying the Church's teaching regarding the creation of man with the field of palaeontology falls tophilosophers to contemplate, theologians to speculate on and scientists to observe and theorise about.

On the one hand we do not think that Scripture can be turned into a naïve palaeontology that is incompatible with the evidence of observation and common sense — man could not exist in the traumatic upheavals of primitive geological formation on earth, nor indeed could he co-exist environmentally with dinosaurs.

The amber piece was originally seen as some kind of plant inclusion and destined to become a curiosity or piece of jewellery, but Xing recognized its potential scientific importance and suggested the Dexu Institute of Palaeontology buy the specimen.

Jennifer covers palaeontology, evolutionary biology, and science policy from the UK and Canada.

In this sense, I believe Palaeontology has a crucial role in the study of modern global change» explains Fernando Blanco.

«Thousands of steppe bison fossils are recovered in northern Canada every year,» said coauthor Grant Zazula of the Government of Yukon Palaeontology Program in Whitehorse.

«Illicit fossil trade presents a great challenge to modern palaeontology and accounts for a dramatic loss of Mongolian scientific heritage,» says Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

Sean B. Carroll offers the back - story, weaving palaeontology, naturalism and molecular biology into an epic, enjoyable adventure.

«Embryology can tell us about the evolutionary relationship between anatomical features in living animals, while palaeontology can pinpoint precisely when these features first appear in deep time.

He was based in New York for most of his professional life, where he was known as father of mammalian palaeontology.

The discovery of this mammal on the continent of Asia indicates that there were some paleogeographic and environmental conditions that favoured the expansion of this species towards the east,» explains Chiara Angelone, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology Miquel Crusafont and co-author of the study published in the journal Historical Biology.

However, a new article published in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology sheds new light on this mystery.

Excavations have been funded by the Archaeology and Palaeontology Service of the Government of Catalonia and Castelldefels City Council, together with other organizations such as the Historical Research Group of Castelldefels (GREHIC).

Since fossils in general, and dinosaur fossils in particular, are rare and very different from modern animals, it's lucky that humans came wired to spot the unusual, and collect the oddities that resembled ancient life forms long before there was a subject called palaeontology.

After a moment's study, Sloan replied: «I won't tell you what this is, but if you take my vertebrate palaeontology course, you will be able to identify it yourself.»

Ilya Mandel and Alison Farmer, «Stellar Palaeontology,» Nature, Vol.

But researchers interested in combining palaeontology with the study of brains have been chipping away at this assumption.

Then in 1953, their suspicions aroused, Oxford scientists Joe Weiner and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark asked Kenneth Oakley, then of the BM (NH) Geology Department (precursor to the present Palaeontology and Mineralogy departments), to apply even more stringent tests to Piltdown Man.

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On New Year's Eve, 1853, Owen, Hawkins, and other scientific luminaries had dinner in the belly of the Iguanodon statue, celebrating a unique and fruitful partnership between palaeontology and the plastic arts.

I had been given the usual forgettable gifts; Socks, pants, a miniature palaeontology set.

In a new report in the journal Palaeontology, Sallan and colleagues argue that the two papers that seemingly settled the Tully monster debate are flawed, failing to definitively classify it as a vertebrate.

said Dr. David Evans, Temerty Chair and Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, and leader of the project.

Speaking at the Society for Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last month, Shimada estimated the fish must have been at least 4 metres long...

In addition to its stellar faculty, the institute boasts the largest professional library for palaeontology and stratigraphy in Asia, with journal collections dating back to the 1770s; a collection of 160,000 type specimens (fossils that define a species or subspecies); and a research station in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Dr Alyssa Bell and Professor Luis Chiappe of the Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, publishing in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, have undertaken a detailed analysis of their evolution, showing that separate lineages became progressively more adept at diving into water to catch fishes, like modern day loons and grebes.

Suzuki has married the science of palaeontology with acoustic engineering to work out what kind of noises dinosaurs were likely to have made.

New research, published online today in Palaeontology, suggests that the Priapulida phylum, the group that contains all the penis worms, may have been more diverse than previously realized, and that the differences between species are revealed by their tiny teeth.

Culture aficionados can take a walking tour to admire historic architecture and visit the Courtenay and District Museum & Palaeontology Centre.

They compared it with several ichthyosaurs and visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada, and examined the largest ichthyosaur known, the shastasaurid Shonisaurus sikanniensis, which is 21 m long.