Sentences with phrase «paleontologists believe»

The CCSM appeared to correctly capture key details of the late Permian, including increased ocean salinity and sea surface temperatures in the high latitudes that paleontologists believe were 14 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius) higher than present.

Paleontologists believe a landing pterosaur made this set of four prints before walking off to explore «Pterosaur Beach.»

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

Prior to the discovery, paleontologists believed that the oldest cases of the ailment dated back several thousand years in mummies from Egypt and Peru.

Van den Bergh and his team continue to dig at Mata Menge where, the paleontologist believes, «there must be many, many fossils waiting to be excavated.»

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In a question - and - answer session at the meeting, however, paleontologist Nicholas Butterfield of the University of Cambridge reported that after Azmi visited and gave him a look at actual samples, he believes they are not fossils at all but artifacts.

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).

The ancient eggs, believed to be about 450 million years old, were found in New York by Markus Martin, an amateur paleontologist and friend to Hegna.

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.

Schweitzer believes understanding preservation at a molecular level could help paleontologists find traces of ancient life on Earth, as well as on planets like Mars.

«When that fossil was found, no one would have believed that we could get DNA out of it,» says Yukon government paleontologist Grant Zazula.

The Belgian paleontologist has studied the remains of other older canids in Eurasia and believes some of them were early dogs — a controversial theory, but one this new research suggests may be correct.

His strong jaw, flat molars, and bony spine on top of the skull led paleontologists to believe he ate nuts and seeds, earning him the nickname Nutcracker Man.

But according to the team's finding, trytylodontids seem to have survived at least 30 million years longer than what paleontologists had believed.

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 paleontologists often focus on smaller fryespecially with regard to the origin of birds, which are believed to have evolved from petite, predatory dinosaurs.

The size of the skull leads paleontologists to believe this specimen is roughly 85 percent of the size of the largest T. rex ever found.

This reminds me of creationist quote - mining of the likes of Stephen J Gould, where they snip a sentence here, a sentence there from his writings to «prove» that this prominent evolutionary biologist and paleontologist «didn't really believe in evolution».

Then there's the gorgeous, funny Bridget Fonda as a neurotic, Ally McBealish New York paleontologist and Oliver Platt as a very rich and eccentric mythology professor who believes crocodiles are godly.

This reminds me of creationist quote - mining of the likes of Stephen J Gould, where they snip a sentence here, a sentence there from his writings to «prove» that this prominent evolutionary biologist and paleontologist «didn't really believe in evolution».