Sentences with phrase «paleontologist on»

Because no video shoot is complete without a paleontologist on set.

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A variety of media in «Art of the North» offer varied takes on the Northern landscape and wilderness, and a quirky tour of Alaska fossils comes courtesy of Alaska resident Ray Troll and paleontologist Kirk Johnson, the director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

I am not a paleontologist, and have no opinion on the extinction of dinosaurs.

«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.»

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Some evolutionary creationists have argued that this non-randomness of evolution is a way that God uses evolution to shape His creation (the best work on this topic is Life's Solution by noted Cambrian paleontologist Simon Conway Morris).

Our telescopes have driven it back to the Big Bang, our paleontologists back to the origins of life on Earth.

Have you or ANYONE in psuedo science found transitional fossils, and how many times did the late Harvard paleontologist Stephen Gould change his theory on naturalistic evolution?

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

You may know him as the enthusiastic paleontologist at the end of the Dinosaur Train episodes, but Dr. Scott is not just interested in the history of life on our planet, he's interested in the future of it as well.

Just ask a paleontologist: No matter how many dinosaur skeletons or Neanderthal skulls scientists dig up, they still can tell only a small part of the story of what life on Earth was like millions, or even thousands, of years ago.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

The team's findings «are on par for what little data we have for tyrannosaurs,» says Richard McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, Canada.

T. abini «is a significant find» that shifts the fossil record of tree - dwelling birds significantly back in time, says paleontologist Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, who led the team that reported on the penguin fossils.

«Holland had a spectacular rebuttal,» says Lamanna, referring to a withering 1910 paper by the Carnegie paleontologist, which included illustrations based on Tornier's claims.

In addition to reconstructing Iguanodon as a stout, tail - dragging reptile, early paleontologists placed a finger bone on the animal's snout.

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Soon, in his attempt to prove his colleague wrong, Muller had convinced himself that the paleontologists actually might be on to something, although he wasn't sure what.

Paleontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas have co-authored a scientific paper entitled «An articulated cervical series of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore, 1922 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from Texas: new perspective on the relationships of North America's last giant sauropod.»

Based on a popular book of the same name by paleontologist Neil Shubin, the three - part series Your Inner Fish traces our often unexpected evolutionary connections with other species, including reptiles and shrews.

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.

Drs. Harmand and Lewis co-directed the fieldwork and analysis of the findings as part of an international, multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists, paleoanthropologists; there are 19 other co-authors on the paper.

At first paleontologists were studying evolution on vast timescales through fossils.

The paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould studied lakes in East Africa and on Caribbean islands looking for Darwin's gradual change from one species of trilobite or snail to another.

Farmer's hunch was that early life on Mars, if it existed at all, followed a path similar to that of life on Earth and thus could be found in the same places and detected by the same means that paleontologists use to discover Earth fossils.

One standout chapter discusses how scientists might unravel the evolution of language — linguists turn out to be almost as disputatious as paleontologists — and another speculates on how natural selection might have shaped human biology in modern times.

But the fossils from the Cerutti Mastodon site (as the site was named in recognition of field paleontologist Richard Cerutti who discovered the site and led the excavation), were found embedded in fine - grained sediments that had been deposited much earlier, during a period long before humans were thought to have arrived on the continent.

Indeed, for some time paleontologists and astrobiologists hunting for bits of life on Mars have made use of Raman spectroscopy, a technique that can reveal the cellular composition of a sample.

Editor's Note: This story was updated on May 12, 2017, to reflect that it is «paleontologists» who typically study dinosaur bones.

It's certainly possible that Chilesaurus is something other than a theropod, «but the analysis they use to test this is problematic,» says Martin Ezcurra, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Argentine Natural Science Museum who was an author on the original Chilesaurus paper.

A younger generation of paleontologists, in contrast, has focused on reconstructing intimate details like growth rates and behaviors using modern techniques normally associated with the study of living organisms.

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

An off - the - clock project begun on a whim may cause paleontologists and museum curators to rethink their fossil collections.

For the Past 130 years, paleontologists divided dinosaurs into two groups, based on a handful of anatomical features — a split they believe occurred early in the animals» evolution more than 230 million years ago.

Victoria Arbour, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the research, says that the study «reasonably seals the deal» on the long - standing mystery.

Mike Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, had set out to show that Sinosauropteryx's hairlike bristles were precursors to the feathers on today's birds.

Paleontologists will focus especially on the chemical and isotopic composition of Lyuba's baby tusks.

Paleontologists have long speculated about the function of horns and frills on horned dinosaurs.

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.

In 2010, paleontologists announced they'd found a 10 million - year - old megalodon nursery on the coast of Panama with newborns measuring more than 6 feet long.

Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

The study is «a very welcome and very clever addition to the really limited information we have on dinosaur color and coloration patterns,» says Anne Schulp, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, who wasn't involved in the research.

Lewin bolted home to read everything he could on Mongolian diseases and wrote the expedition leader — famed paleontologist Mark Norell — begging for a chance to figure out the diagnosis.

Last April, the Hindenburg University paleontologist was hiking in Germany's Neander Valley when he tripped over something on a trail.

The range of crocodile marks described in the new study doesn't look «especially like» damage to the 130,000 - year - old mastodon bones on California's coast, says paleontologist Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a coauthor of the ancient California bones paper.

Until recently, that hole was among a handful of telltale features paleontologists used to identify whether they had their hands on an actual dinosaur specimen.

When paleontologist Scott Sampson dug up a nearly 6 - foot Nasutoceratops titusi skull in Utah in 2006, he also uncovered hints of what life was like 76 million years ago for creatures on the hot, half - flooded landmass called Laramidia.

To identify the animal that left behind a fossil, paleontologists pore over the bone, noting each bump, groove and hole, measuring the length of a tibia bone or counting the digits on a forelimb.

Paleontologists used to wonder whether the first teeth were on the inside or the outside of prehistoric bodies.