Sentences with phrase «paleontologist at»
Another lecturer, Dr. Malcolm C. McKenna, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, said the ship, the Yamal, crunched through miles of unusually thin ice and intermittent open water on the approach from Spitsbergen, Norway, to the pole.
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Dr. Malcolm C. McKenna, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, also was a passenger on the Yamal and joined Dr. McCarthy in describing their surprise at finding thin ice and intermittent open seas.
According to Jonathan Bloch, a paleontologist at the University of Florida who recently co-authored a study on the tiny horses of the PETM era, human - caused global warming might be setting in too fast this time around for many species to adapt.
Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.
When a 30 - foot prehistoric crocodile devours a scuba diver in the largely unoccupied waters of Black Lake in Maine, Fonda's Kelly Scott, a paleontologist at the American Museum Of Natural History in New York, is sent to examine the creature's tooth.
The character Ross was a paleontologist at this museum, and his friend Joey fills out his application for him and under occupation, Joey writes dinosaurs lol
«Some could jump, some could burrow, others could climb trees and many more lived on the ground,» said researcher Zhe - Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago.
Roger Benson, a paleontologist at the University of Oxford in England, is impressed by what Lee's team did.
«It had the familiar toothy grin of T. rex, but its snout was long and slender,» Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at Edinburgh and co-author of the study, told the BBC.
JMT is a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Calgary.
Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, has co-authored a study based on what USA Today reported was an «exquisitely detailed fossil» unearthed in northeastern China.
«For the first time we found more complex, compound structures, together with simpler hairlike structures» in a plant - eating dinosaur, Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, which lived about 175 million years ago, said Pascal Godefroit, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, «that really resemble the protofeathers in advanced» meat eaters.
«The past is the key to the present and the future,» said study coauthor Jon Tennant, a paleontologist at Imperial College London.
She is a paleontologist at Princeton University in New Jersey.
These fossils have too many characteristics in common with Archaeopteryx.13 Lawrence Witmer, a paleontologist at Ohio University put it this way: «We now really need to accept the fact that Archaeopteryx probably isn't a bird.»
«It's impossible not to be excited to reach remote sites via helicopter and icebreaker to look for dinosaurs and other life forms from over 66 million years ago,» said Julia Clarke, a paleontologist at the UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, in the team's press release detailing the expedition.
He's a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.
He's a paleontologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Arthur Cruickshank, a paleontologist at the Leicester City Museum, believes the heavy ribs were for ballast, indicating that the animal perhaps hunted at greater depths than other marine reptiles.
But this idea is «too simplistic,» counters Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, because many ornithuromorphs vanished during the extinction, too.
The cache of more than 200 fossil eggs found with bones of juvenile and adult animals in northwestern China is «one of the most extraordinary fossil [finds] I've ever seen,» says David Unwin, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the work.
These adaptations may have played an important role in the later success of modern mammals once the dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago, says Richard Cifelli, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, who was not involved with the work.
«Any other color would have long since rotted away,» says Maria McNamara, a paleontologist at University College Cork in the United Kingdom and lead author of the study.
Given the precise arrangement of eggs in fossil nests, the eggs could have been partially buried — or at least nestled — in sediment, even when a parent was brooding them in an «open» nest, says David Varricchio, a paleontologist at Montana State University, Bozeman.
C. lenticarpus «is the closest thing we have to a terrestrial ancestor» of ichthyosaurs, says Valentin Fischer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, who wasn't connected to the research.
Ichthyosaurs (which in Greek means «fish lizards») lived from about 248 million years ago to about 95 million years ago, says Da - Yong Jiang, a vertebrate paleontologist at Peking University in Beijing.
P. sandersi's body plan was well adapted to long - range flight, says Michael Habib, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Bloch, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, knew he had something that would rewrite the (pre) history books.
This enabled multiple species to co-exist,» clarified Heinz Furrer, paleontologist at the University of Zurich and author of this research project.
«Primates are known for doing this,» agrees Lauren Gonzales, a primate paleontologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who wasn't involved in the study.
«There is a near - consensus now that the simple bristlelike structures in Tianyulong and Psittacosaurus should correspond to the earliest developmental stage» of what researchers often call «protofeathers,» says Pascal Godefroit, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
«Kulindadromeus seals the deal that some plant - eating dinosaurs had feathers, and is the best proof yet that feathers weren't something that evolved only in the meat - eating dinosaurs,» says Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.
If we were to find a flying sloth, it would be about as unexpected as this, says Greg McDonald, a paleontologist at the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in Idaho.
The newly described mandible is an important find, says Nicholas Pyenson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.. Although today's whales, dolphins, and porpoises have a variety of feeding styles, it's clear that the ancestors of all whales were suction feeders, he notes.
This «compelling evidence... resolves this long - standing controversy» between the fossil record and developmental studies, says Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
When he first saw pictures of this unusual fossilized pterosaur skull from a private collection, Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, didn't think it was real.
The oily shale that entombs those fossils was laid down as lake sediments about 47 million years ago, says Walter Joyce, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
That's what you'd expect to see in a transition from moseying along on four legs to scampering on two, says Yuong - Nam Lee, a paleontologist at Seoul National University who first came across the slab back in 2004.
Researchers led by Thomas Kaye, a paleontologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, report in PLoS ONE that slimy bacterial colonies called biofilms mimic the fleshy residues allegedly recovered from a fossilized bone unearthed in Montana in 2005.
In 2007, an international team led by Julia Clarke, a paleontologist at the University of Texas, Austin, reported two new extinct species near the Pacific coast of Peru.
«This is a novel proposal and a really interesting hypothesis,» says Randall Irmis, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
«It's not quite a spider, but it's very close to being one,» said study researcher Russell Garwood, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
There are many factors that may explain why the Cambrian explosion occurred, but the researchers» «escape from light» idea adds a novel possibility to the debate, says David Harper, a paleontologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the study.
This growth strategy has not been seen in any other tree in Earth's history, says Xu Hong - He, a paleontologist at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology in China who discovered the fossilized tree trunks.
«It's crazy that the oldest trees also had the most complex growth strategy,» adds Christopher Berry, a plant paleontologist at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom who helped analyze the fossils.
«I agree that Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx were poor fliers,» says Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California.
Philip Currie, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta in Canada, says that although the paper provides the «most convincing evidence yet» that these birds did not do well in the air, he also questions the authors» conclusions that they were capable of only gliding or parachuting.
«These are the vital distinctions between mammals and nonmammalian vertebrates, but it has been a challenge for scientists to trace the origins of these features in the fossil record,» says Zhe - Xi Luo, a vertebrate paleontologist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
«Mammals didn't get our larger brains for thinking,» says co-author Zhe - Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
«It's complicated,» says study coauthor Brianna McHorse, a paleontologist at Harvard University.