Sentences with phrase «palaeontology with»
Suzuki has married the science of palaeontology with acoustic engineering to work out what kind of noises dinosaurs were likely to have made.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
We therefore particularly encourage submission of symposia on broad and integrative topics of potential interest to researchers from different fields (e.g. developmental biology, genetics, palaeontology, theoretical biology, genomics, morphogenesis) and with a clear evolutionary aspect.
This is also where you will find the Museum of Evolution with botany, zoology and 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.