Sentences with phrase «paleontologist now»

We don't know,» says Gareth Dyke, a paleontologist now at Hungary's University of Debrecen who worked with Ibrahim in Dublin.

Such a dip would put our planet in a deep freeze, and in fact paleontologists now find evidence of one such episode of extreme cold (nicknamed «Snowball Earth») about 650 million years ago.

Despite these ambiguities, paleontologists now generally agree that at least some dinosaur species lived in big herds.

Not exact matches

Leading contemporary paleontologists such as David Raup and Niles Eldredge say that the fossil problem is as serious now as it was then, despite the most determined efforts of scientists to find the missing links.

It was a different story nine to about five million years ago, however, when a total of 14 different crocodile species existed and at least seven of them occupied the same area at the same time, as an international team headed by paleontologists Marcelo Sánchez and Torsten Scheyer from the University of Zurich is now able to reveal.

A specimen was first unearthed in what is now Tanzania in the 1930s and sat in London's Natural History Museum until 1956, when Ph.D. candidate Alan Charig (later a paleontologist at the museum) dubbed it T. rhadinus (referring to the shape of the animal's hip and its slender body).

Now, researchers have reassembled the ancient trackways in cyberspace, a treat for paleontologists that's even more special because some of those tracks were later lost or destroyed.

With the new reconstruction, paleontologists can now analyze the trackways and better determine things such as the sizes, motions, and walking speeds of the dinosaurs that left the footprints — which, in turn, may reveal whether an ancient predator really «chased» its prey along an ancient shoreline or merely ambled by at about the same time.

Ken Carpenter, a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, was the first to use the term professionally, quipping, «And now, on to the thagomizer,» when describing a specimen with broken tail spikes at a 1993 meeting.

Paleontologists at the University of Bonn, together with scientists from the Alexander Koenig Research Museum in Bonn as well as the Universities of Kassel, Gdańsk (Poland) and Lucknow (India) with the Museum for Materials Research at the Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht, have now discovered and described a new species in 54 million - year - old amber.

Now, analysis of the bones of KNM - TH 28860 is helping paleontologists prune out the hairy Miocene apes from those from which we are descended.

Now, paleontologists are arguing that a sixth extinction, 260 million years ago, at the end of a geological age called the Capitanian, deserves to be a member of the exclusive club.

Now, about a dozen years later, paleontologists from the University of Bonn, led by Prof. Dr. Martin Sander, have worked with Nils Knötschke and Dr. Oliver Wings from the State Museum of Hanover to reconstruct the tracks in a three - dimensional model, using digital methods.

Now paleontologist Neil Shubin — discoverer of the «fishapod» Tiktaalik, whose fins with wrists and elbows illustrate an evolutionary transition between ancient fish and early land animals — leads a lively jaunt through the human body to get us in touch with our fishy (not to mention buggy, wormy, and yeasty) extended family.

Now a paleontologist at the University of Warsaw, he is building on his youthful explorations: Last year he discovered two sets of fossil footprints that add to our understanding of life's key evolutionary transitions.

Paleontologists from the University of Bonn, working with Dinosaur Park Münchehagen and the State Museum of Hanover, have now created a three - dimensional digital model based on photographs of the excavation.

But paleontologists have found little evidence of how the extinct arthropods reproduced — until now.

Now we have a complete skeleton, and we know about the skin and the fur, says Burkart Engesser, a paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland, who helped identify the fossil.

That was the greatest mass extinction in history, and thanks to GRACE, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists now have an idea of how it may have happened.

Paleontologists from the University of Zurich now reveal that climate catastrophes in the past played a crucial role in the dominance of ray - finned fish today.

Now scientists around Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich paleontologist Professor Bettina Reichenbacher have described a new fossil cichlid discovered in Upper Miocene strata in East Africa, which provides new insights into the evolutionary history of the group.

Now, a new skeleton of Poposaurus described by Nesbitt, Yale University paleontologist Jacques Gauthier, and co-authors in the current edition of the Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History confirms that it, too, walked like a dinosaur.

Now, the ground is parched and exposed, so the paleontologists can spot bone peeking out from eroded hillsides.

But then she sat in on a dinosaur lecture given by Jack Horner, now retired from the university, who was the model for the paleontologist in the original Jurassic Park movie.

Now Emily Rayfield, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., thinks she has the answer.

«It would be nice if we found more,» the vertebrate paleontologist, now at Virginia Tech, remembers thinking.

The new dinosaur, named Rhinorex condrupus by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and Brigham Young University, lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.

Zhe - Xi Luo, a vertebrate paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, adds: «We now have a finer understanding about exactly where and when these features started to appear.

So it seemed fortuitous when, 5 years later, Charles Dawson, a professional lawyer and amateur fossil hunter in Sussex, U.K. (now East Sussex, U.K.), wrote to his friend, paleontologist Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, announcing that he had uncovered a «thick portion of a human -LRB-?)

The early stages of this transition have now been studied by Martin Brazeau, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his advisor, paleontologist Per Ahlberg.

The latest find was made there in 2010, and this new specimen has now been analyzed by a team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

Many paleontologists have maintained that the horns of ceratopsians were rhinolike, and Witmer can now test that hypothesis.

A team of paleontologists from the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences and Peking University have now peered inside the Pseudooides embryos using X-rays and found features that link them to the adult stages of another fossil group.

«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.

In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.

The study was led by Sébastien Olive, a vertebrate paleontologist in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences who is now on a post-doctoral fellowship at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

In a road cut near the Missouri River in central South Dakota, paleontologists uncovered signs of a fight to the death waged 73 million years ago in a shallow sea that covered much of what is now the Great Plains.

An international group of paleontologists has discovered a horse - like animal that lived in what is now India during Eocene epoch, about 55 million years...

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.»

The fossil, now in the collections in Paleontological Museum of Liaoning in China, was discovered and studied by an international team of paleontologists from Paleontological Museum of Liaoning, University of Bonn in Germany, and the University of Chicago.

As Sullivan said, «The Cretaceous feathered dinosaurs of northeastern China have been astonishing paleontologists and the public for almost two decades now, and the Daohugou Biota preserves their Jurassic counterparts in the same region.

«Now it's become so standard that a lot of paleontologists have their own scanners in their lab,» Brusatte said.

The Norwegian doctor in charge of the work Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen) and his assistant Adam (Eric Christian Olsen) recruit paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, her character introduced while listening to Men at Work's «Who Can It Be Now?»

In 1980, American paleontologist Robert West was the first to recognize, based on the teeth, that whales once lived in what is now Pakistan.

Paleontologist Novacek vividly recounts the formation of the miraculous ecosystem that has sustained human life, and reports on how our habits of consumption are now jeopardizing its balance and our future.

Jason Head, the University of Toronto, Mississauga, a paleontologist who led the study of the snake and its climate, warned that while the ancient tropics appeared to be a steamy thriving place, the pace of change projected now from the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to be disruptive.