Sentences with phrase «paleontological research»

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.

This from the Paleontological Research Institution gives a useful and even handed primer on using tree rings in climate research.

Paleontological research has demonstrated that even at 180 ppm there was a severe restriction of growth as plants began to starve.

Paleontological research has now found a very early horse, Sifrhippus, just at the PETM.

Archaeological and paleontological research has identified more than 100 fox bones from more than 35 different archaeological and subfossil sites across the archipelago.

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

James Mead, a vertebrate paleontologist with East Tennessee State University, said more research into the evolutionary history of native plants and animals on Abaco is needed as well as conservation programs based on paleontological research that aims to restore these species.

Landscape in the Paredon area: There the researchers encountered fossil imprints while conducting paleontological research.

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.

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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.

The museum is also a designated repository for artifacts and paleontological specimens collected from BLM - administered lands in Oregon, ensuring they are available to future generations for education and research.

«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.

Together with OSW and in partnership with the Museum of Victoria, Hester is working on a long - term research project investigating the potential of geological and paleontological specimens to help clarify the effects of planetary transformations caused by human activity.