Sentences with word «paleontologist»

«I'd heard about this hypothesis at various workshops,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at Yale University.

During the 2011 and 2012 seasons, a team led by Nancy Stevens, a vertebrate paleontologist at Ohio University in Athens, discovered fossils that it identified as belonging to two previously unknown species of primates: one, an apparent ape ancestor the team has named Rukwapithecus fleaglei; the other, a claimed Old World monkey ancestor dubbed Nsungwepithecus gunnelli.

«In 1986, Peter Webb and a team of paleontologists at Ohio State University discovered the remains of an extensive temperate forest that flourished 400 miles from the South Pole 3 million years ago» — Wikipedia

California gray whales may be able to quadruple their numbers to nearer 100,000, say paleontologists looking at how these encrusted denizens of the Pacific survived the last Ice Age.

«The case most frequently insisted on by paleontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down in the Chalk period.»

There is yet another take on dinosaur art, one that comes from a small but growing circle of young paleontologists who say that many of the decisions currently guessed at by artists might someday be based on real evidence from scientists.

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has been discovered in Montana by paleontologists with the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and the University of Washington.

These and other details about the two animals that lived about 142 million years ago were presented by biologist Pernille Venø Troelsen from University of Southern Denmark on July 10 2015 at XIII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Opole, Poland.

The T. rex was found by paleontologists from Burke Museum and the University of Washington (UW) in Montana's famous dinosaur - fossil haven, the Hell Creek Formation.

As paleontologists with access to the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, we have a unique opportunity to look back a century later on his discovery of the world's most famous dinosaur.

One of the world's leading paleontologists describes what happens when prehistoric bones are studied with one of science's most up - to - date tools: the CT scan.

And that makes Mistaken Point a key site for paleontologist Alex Liu, who's trying to understand the origins of animal movement.

Brusatte and Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, the Warsaw University paleontologist who led the research, are examining several dinosaur track sites scattered in central and southern Poland.

«Living herd animals do occasionally turn carnivore to fulfill a particular nutritional need,» says vertebrate paleontologist Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.

Once dismissed by most paleontologists as mere curiosities, trackways are increasingly being recognized as vital pieces of evidence that record otherwise unknowable details of daily life millions of years ago.

Interest in the Capitanian began in the early 1990s, when paleontologists found evidence for fossil extinctions in rock formations in China.

When paleontologists study fossils through bone shape alone, they can only broadly infer the relationship between two hominids, no matter how many fossils they collect.

Just as paleontologists use fossil bones to date when a species originated, paleovirologists can use remnants of viral genes scattered around the genomes of the organisms they infect.

In 2010 he returned to the site together with Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki (2nd author), a Polish paleontologist now at Uppsala University, to study the footprints in detail.

many paleontologists think that these animals arose 65 million years ago, this new work suggests that the two most ancient groups appeared a little more than 100 million years ago during the breakup of the giant southern continent called Gondwana.

So when paleontologist Mary Schweitzer's initial analysis of the fossil showed delicately preserved collagen protein, skepticism reigned.

That is certainly what many laymen think, and it may well be the view humbly taken by many paleontologists of themselves.

In April, North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer reported that she and her colleagues had sequenced proteins preserved in soft tissue remains from the 68 - million - year - old leg bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

«That's what sets this fossil apart,» says paleontologist Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

asks invertebrate paleontologist Peter Harries of the University of South Florida.

So Lewin asked for blood samples from other paleontologists who visited the region; being scientists themselves, they were happy to roll up their sleeves.

That's what paleontologist Paul Wignall of the University of Leeds did for a study just published in Science.

«The talonid basin of A. nyktos doesn't look like that of any self - respecting placental mammal,» declares San Diego State University paleontologist David Archibald.

Like Mononykus, Shuvuuia looks a bit like a dinosaur, which is not surprising since most paleontologists believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Our earliest ancestors may have breathed through their ears, say paleontologists Martin Brazeau and Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden.

Outside of the office he spends his time out in rural Oklahoma as an amateur paleontologist searching for fossils and other signs of Oklahoma's ancient past.

Who knows maybe you have a little paleontologist on your hands!

Learn how paleontologists work, participate in a real dig or wander through the museum at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center.

Clarke then called in Yale paleontologist Jakob Vinther of Briggs» group, who found melanosomes galore, as the team reports online today in Science.

As it happened, in 1998 — not long after you had started to formulate your theory of feather evolution — Chinese paleontologists discovered dinosaurs covered in fuzz, and there was quite a debate about what this stuff was.

The name Aurornis xui is made up of the words Aurora (Latin for «daybreak») Ornis (Greek for «bird») and xui, in honor of Xu Xing, a well - known Chinese paleontologist who specializes in feathered dinosaurs and the non-avian dinosaur - to - bird transition.

The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.

The team identified them as ape and Old World monkey ancestors from the features of their molars, which paleontologists routinely use to tell primates apart.

In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research, found what she believed to be medullary bone in the femur of a 68 million year old T. rex fossil (MOR 1125).

Unearthing such species, he adds, could help paleontologists identify the terrestrial creatures from which ichthyosaurs evolved.

«We're really lucky to be out here,» says Schweitzer, a dinosaur paleontologist at North Carolina State University (NC State) in Raleigh.

But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on National Geographic's Genographic Project, we can begin to piece together the story of our ancestors.

Limusaurus lost all of its teeth as it aged and swapped them for a smooth beak, a team of paleontologists reports.

The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a professional paleontologist as well as Jesuit philosopher, also exerted a formative influence.

But just when and how that happened has been elusive, not least because paleontologists thought that the soft, fragile tissues of the central nervous system would leave few traces in the fossil record.

American paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and a team of Norwegian scientists fight a shape - shifting extraterrestrial at a remote outpost in Antarctica.

University of Michigan paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich and his colleagues recovered partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, from 47 - million - year - old rocks in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

Paleontologists also realized the animals were not dedicated quadrupeds.

A team led by paleontologist Robert Reisz of the University of Toronto at Mississauga excavated two of the eggs using miniature jackhammers and dental drills and revealed two specimens of baby Massospondylus carinatus, the predecessor of the giant long - necked sauropods, such as Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus.