Sentences with phrase «palaeontology at»

Benton is Professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Bristol.

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.

«It was assumed that tetrapods evolved in river deltas and lakes, partly because all previous fossil evidence has been found in these environments,» says Jenny Clack, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK.

Those instincts were hampered by a lack of technical education — he studied astronomy, zoology, physics and palaeontology at the University of Berlin.

He ran dinosaur - digging tours which charged «volunteers» upwards of $ 1500 a week, and was director of palaeontology at the small, not - for - profit Phillips County Museum in Malta, a town of 1800 people in the north - east of the state.

Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator & Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have published a paper with colleagues in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found.

But our model shows us there were probably several factors,» says Dr. P. Martin Sander, a professor at the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology at the University of Bonn, Germany.

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

This exposition is intended to show that we still stand merely at a beginning, even apart from the fact that palaeontology and other branches of the scientific study of man are far from having reached the end of their inquiries in their own domain.

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.

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).

Engelman; along with Federico Anaya, professor of geological engineering at Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías, in Potosí, Bolivia; and Darin Croft, anatomy professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, describe the animals, where they fit in the family, and their paleoecology and paleobiology in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

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...

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

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.

«We have confirmed this earlier appearance of the Iberian lynx based on initial molecular studies that estimate the emergence of this feline during the Early Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula,» asserts Alberto Boscaini, a researcher at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Palaeontology (ICP) and the main author of this study published by Quaternary Science Reviews.

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 journal Palaeontology is publishing an analysis of the footprints led by Anthony Martin, a paleontologist at Emory University in Atlanta who specializes in trace fossils, which include tracks, burrows and nests.

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.

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.

«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.

«It actually looks like it looked back in the Cretaceous,» says Caleb Brown at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Canada.

Dr Louys returned from the project's latest expedition to East Timor in August and has presented the findings at the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas.

«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.

This is particularly true for palaeontology, which stands at the intersection of a wide array of disciplines including geology, biology, chemistry, materials science, statistics and biomechanics.

Rapid developments in synchrotron tomography foresee the visualisation of even larger objects at higher resolutions in the future and will continue to expand the role of computed tomography in vertebrate palaeontology.

Faux Guide extends the exploration of palaeontology, museology and natural history in Morocco that Barrada launched in her Abraaj Group Art Prize show during Art Dubai and coincides with Salon Marocain, a solo exhibition of her work at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, on view through 20 September.

David Altmejd: Magic Loop @ Modern Art, Helmet Row Giant plaster reliefs have hands protruding from them like something we'd see at a palaeontology dig — I kept expecting to spot a T - Rex skull.