Sentences with phrase «palaeontology as»

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

Asier Gómez - Olivencia, a doctor in Human Palaeontology, did research at the University of Cambridge and at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in France, until 2014 when he joined the UPV / EHU's Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow.

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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.

David Hone at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing, China, and Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, Japan, report that tooth marks on the 70 - million - year - old bone match the pattern and shape of the teeth of Tarbosaurus, an Asian tyrannosaur nearly as big as T. rex (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, DOI: 10.4202 / app.2009.0133).

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.

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.

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

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

Christian, who led the study as part of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness, of layers around the circumference of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the individual belongs to.»

Taxonomy features almost as highly as taxidermy, especially where the book unravels the golden age of palaeontology.

«In spite of their colossal diversity today, the origin of mandibulates had largely remained a mystery,» said Cédric Aria, lead author of the study and recent graduate of the PhD program in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, now working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Nanjing Institute for Geology and Palaeontology, in China.

Although scientific innovation is principally driven by trained scientists, research opportunities often present themselves to others — in palaeontology, this can tie into the strong public interest in famous extinct animals such as dinosaurs and mammoths.

Ancient DNA has grown from a scientific curiosity into a powerful research tool in fields as diverse as molecular evolution, archaeology, palaeontology, conservation genetics and forensic identification.