Sentences with word «paleontological»

According to a press release from The Field Museum in Chicago, the dinosaur was named for the John Caldwell Meeker family for their support of paleontological research at The Field Museum and in reference to a man - eating monster from Native American Ute mythology.

These changes are well - represented in marine sediments and in paleontological records from the continents, where vegetation zones moved Equator - ward.

It is also the site of the discovery of the earliest paleontological evidence of humans in North America.

In paleontological time frames, the giant ground sloths had just disappeared yesterday.

While conducting paleontological research in northeastern Mexico, the scientists came upon sedimentary rock deposited toward the end of the Cretaceous Period that evidenced an enormous diversity of fossils, including the tracks of birds, dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

Peter Hochuli and Susanne Feist - Burkhardt from Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, studied two drilling cores from Weiach and Leuggern, northern Switzerland, and found pollen grains that resemble fossil pollen from the earliest known flowering plants.

«Our results indicate that repeated extinction events played a key role in the development of today's fish fauna,» explains Carlo Romano, a postdoc at the University of Zurich's Paleontological Institute and Museum.

Teeth, on the other hand, are hard and strong enough to survive through the ages, and they are often found at paleontological and archaeological sites.

It turned up in a cave at Atapuerca, one of the most active paleontological sites in the world.

Inclusion of paleontological data into the modeling of ecological niches of living species might show that many of them could live under very different conditions than today, that their ecological niche is much bigger as assumed.

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Along with extensive paleontological resources, Santa Rosa Island has rich archeological resources.

Evidence from paleontological studies and ecological monitoring indicate that coral disease prevalence, variety, and host range have all increased over the last 30 years.

The work was supported by the Key Lab for Paleobiological Evolution of Northeastern Asia, Ministry of Land Resources of China, Shenyang Normal University, Paleontological Museum of Liaonig, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsmeinschaft), Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, National Science Foundation and the University of Chicago.

Since 2004, I have conducted paleontological research in the Big Bend region of Texas.

But the team also cross-checked the documents with paleontological records — including pollen, leaf parts known as phytoliths, and charcoal preserved in lake sediment and soil — to reconstruct the historical ecology of tropical regions of Africa.

Sprawling across the museum's lower level galleries, the exhibition had the air of a studio or gigantic work - in - progress, starting from the entry atrium where two versions of the same piece, Untitled (Lego Worm)(1990/2013), lay side - by - side like recently excavated paleontological specimens: on the one hand was the completed original, on the other a recreation being assembled section - by - section.

«Although we tend to think of paleontological discoveries coming from new field work, many of our most important conclusions come from specimens already in museums,» says Dr. Christian Kammerer, Research Curator of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of the new study.

The specimens used for this study are conserved in the Office Chérifien de Phosphates paleontological collection in Morocco.

Most of us think of determined bone hunters digging up paleontological treasure on dedicated expeditions in exotic locales, but the fact is that many fossils turn up quite by chance.

«[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.»

The research also shows that the obsession with brain size, especially in the human paleontological literature, makes little sense since size is not the only indicator of intelligence.

He has led paleontological expeditions to Baja California, Mexico; the Andes Mountains of Chile; and the Yemen Arab Republic in search of fossil mammals and dinosaurs.

A simple and quick non-contact method to digitize three - dimensional fossils for paleontological and archaeological applications.

Histories and biographies are written, rewritten — or faked — and gay porno stories hold just as much credence and cra as paleontological treatises.

«60 - year - old paleontological mystery of a «phantom» dicynodont.»

Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other outlets declared that a decades - old paleontological mystery had been solved.

Formally, Turkana Basin Institute, Ltd. is the title holder for the fixed assets in Kenya known as TBI - Nairobi, TBI - Turkwel and TBI - Ileret (together known as «TBI Kenya») and is under an agreement with the Government of Kenya, through the National Museums of Kenya, to serve as a repository for the archaeological and paleontological heritage of the Lake Turkana region.

A third community - oriented research project is to help with long - term paleontological investigations of the dinosaur fauna from the mid - to late Cretaceous on Alaska's North Slope.

Early paleontological sites in the Bahamas have yielded bones from numerous species of reptiles, birds and mammals that no longer exist on the islands.

««The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of [UW], Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.

Reconstructing events in the history of life has a long tradition in the geological and paleontological sciences.

If sea squirts, and not amphioxus, truly are the vertebrate's closest relative, then researchers studying vertebrate evolution may have to reinterpret morphological, developmental, and paleontological clues about how vertebrates got their start, concludes Philippe.

But the greatest irony is that the symbolic richness and power — the religious meaning — of creation are largely lost in the cloud of geological and paleontological dust stirred up in the confusion.

After nearly 6 decades in paleontological limbo, a weirdly shaped, soft - bodied sea creature that lived more than 300 million years ago has gained a spot on life's family tree.

«There are many examples of temporarily misplaced taxa in paleontological history, including ferns that were once thought to be sponges and lungfish teeth thought to be fungi,» said the lead author, Allison Bronson, a comparative biology Ph.D. - degree student in the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School.

The fossil finders, on the other hand, live at the bottom of the Arkansas paleontological food chain.

Anza - Borrego Desert State Park; Dr. Lawrence Vescera, volunteer paleontologist at the California State Parks Colorado Desert District Stout Research Center in Borrego Springs; and Richard Cerutti, former paleontological monitor at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

An Ice Age paleontological - turned - archaeological site in San Diego, Calif., preserves 130,000 - year - old bones and teeth of a mastodon that show evidence of modification by early humans.

The archaeological and paleontological material (including numerous human remains) at this Chinese site, declared a UNESCO World Heritage, was lost during the Second World War, while it was being shipped to the United States.

Understanding what shapes diversity will require a major interdisciplinary effort, involving paleontological interpretation, field studies, laboratory experimentation, genomic comparisons, and effective statistical analyses.

«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University.

In this episode, Mark Twain scholar Michael Pratt from Elmira College talks about Twain's paleontological activities and his general interest in science and technology.

Schweitzer knew this amounted to paleontological heresy: According to the textbooks, when fossils form, all but the hardiest organic matter decays, leaving a mix of leftover minerals plus new ones that have leached in and taken the bone's shape.

«Our results are consistent with recent paleontological studies that now point to a very rapid extinction event.»