Sentences with phrase «paleontologists found»

In Hungary, paleontologists found the fossilized remains of a previously unknown freshwater sea beast, which has since been dubbed Pannoniasaurus.

The paleontologists found that Lythronax is most closely related to T. rex and another dinosaur known as Tarbosaurus bataar.

Paleontologists found a 100 - million - year - old spider trapped in amber in northern Myanmar.

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

When this shy paleontologist found soft, fresh - looking tissue inside a T. rex femur, she erased a line between past and present.

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.

«Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba: Reconstruction of the ancient, dinosaur - era relative of today's Ginkgo biloba plant.»

Not exact matches

A group of paleontologists at the University of Queensland have found the world's largest dinosaur footprints, and, as these images and video from lead researcher Steve Salisbury show, they are...

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.

From Darwin's time to the present, paleontologists have hoped to find the ancestors and transitional intermediates and trace the course of macroevolution.

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?

The find may also alter what paleontologists hunt for in the field, as well as how they understand existing collections, says Max Langer, a paleontologist at the University of São Paulo in Rio Claro, Brazil.

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.

Paleontologists may have found an ancestor, or at least a long - lost close cousin, of the Amazon river dolphin.

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.

One problem early paleontologists faced was that they were limited to merely looking at a fossil and finding a living animal to compare it with visually.

Most living fish do not produce it, but Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, found an ancient exception.

Add the high - energy x-rays at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to the soft brushes and delicate drills paleontologists use to examine fossil finds.

The Dawn of the Deed By John A. Long When paleontologist Long spotted a set of tiny bones inside a 380 - million - year - old fossilized fish, he not only discovered the oldest known embryos, he also found the earliest known evidence of animals copulating directly, rather than releasing sperm and eggs to meet in the open sea.

Then, paleontologist Rafat Jamal Azmi of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology in Dehra Dun, India, claimed in the Journal of the Geological Society of India that he had found tiny fossils, known to be from about 540 million years ago, in rocks just above the purported trace fossils.

Karen Chin, a paleontologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was befuddled when she found chunks of undigested meat in a 75 - million - year - old hunk of fossilized dinosaur dung from an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex.

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).

This so - called hexapod gap has long vexed paleontologists, given that insects today are found in almost every imaginable land habitat.

In 1984, Alvarez opened his mailbox to find an envelope from two University of Chicago paleontologists, David Raup and J. John Sepkoski.

By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by NMNH paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species» resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction.

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.

If paleontologists encounter vascular channels in dinosaur fossils, they might also find nematodes, or roundworms, that lived off the animals» internal organs.

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.

By analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosaurs

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.

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.

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.

The team's findings «are another good example of evolution being a predictive science,» says Thomas Holtz, Jr., a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Foot - long fossilized teeth found in the Chilean desert — once an ocean — have long tantalized paleontologists, who wondered what kind of beast had left them behind.

«What makes it so special is that it is more complete and better preserved than any comparable mammoth specimens that have ever been found,» says University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher.

The find is a «paleontologist's dream,» says Ricardo Pérez - de la Fuente, a paleontologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the United Kingdom who helped lead the work.

Paleontologists Salvador Moyà - Solà and his wife, Meike Köhler, of the Miquel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology in Barcelona initially found a piece of Pau's skull and a canine tooth two years ago at a site in northeastern Spain.

Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim garnered fame — and controversy — when he found the largest predatory dinosaur ever known.

Their hunch paid off 2 years later, when study co-author and paleontologist Iyad Zalmout of the Saudi Geological Survey in Jeddah found a small bone stuck in the sediment.

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

Paleontologists can sometimes return to the site where a specimen was removed and find other fossils missed by the earlier 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.

The new findings «are marvelous, so cool,» says Anne Schulp, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, who wasn't involved in the research.

Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.

No additional specimens were found, forcing modern paleontologists to study the lost dinosaur through Stromer's notes and drawings, and a handful of photographs.

Kneeling next to an active dig of an ancient crocodilian creature, Lewin admits that he is not a paleontologist, but he can pore over a find like this for hours.

The traces «do not seem connected to nest building, burrowmaking, or finding food and water,» agrees Anthony Martin, a paleontologist at Emory University in Atlanta.

It's a common complaint regarding Moroccan finds, many of which are unearthed by locals, cleaned up and sold to paleontologists in shops with no associated material, or geological context, to place and date the animal.

Like paleontologists brushing away dirt to reveal a fossil, he and his colleagues found the pieces of a shape within the math — pieces that together form a multidimensional amplituhedron.

Working backward, paleontologists have found fossils of microbes dating back at least 3.4 billion years.