Sentences with phrase «paleontologists study»

In addition to fossilized plant and animal bodily remains, paleontologists study fossilized animal footprints and trails, and even fossilized animal dung (called coprolite).

When paleontologists study fossils through bone shape alone, they can only broadly infer the relationship between two hominids, no matter how many fossils they collect.

UC Berkeley paleontologists studied the molars and premolars of baboons to uncover inherited dental traits that can help track primate and human evolution.

In 1st and 2nd grade, children can put on a lab coat at the «inquiry center» to be a geologist studying rocks or a paleontologist studying fossils.

Not exact matches

(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.

Such process includes human history but includes also the dim past studied by the paleontologist and the distant space of the astronomer.

(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.

It actually is possible for us to know what sort of diet our remote ancestors ingested, because the paleontologists, (anthropologists who study ancient sites etc) painstakingly collect human droppings, which are then analyzed for components which tell us what they ate.

Your child will feel like a paleontologist while they study a real dinosaur bone, excavate a model dinosaur, and make their own fossils!

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The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Paleontologist Marcellin Boule would have been well advised to study pathology.

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

D. horneri's facial bones were lumpy and coarse, like «mud that people have walked through a dozen times,» says study coauthor Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis..

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.

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

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.

«Our new hypothesis has lots of exciting implications about when and where dinosaurs may have originated, as well as when feathers may have evolved,» says University of Cambridge paleontologist Matthew Baron, lead author of the study.

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.

Paleontologist Paul Tafforeau developed a technique to use the synchrotron to study fossils even still partially entombed — with resolution at the micron scale.

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.

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.

But it does have complex pigmentation, says Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

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

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.

Pulanesaura, says paleontologist Blair McPhee, lead author of the August study describing the dinosaur, suggests sauropods evolved to exploit untapped food sources.

Paleontology studies such as this can «establish an ecosystem's long - term past before humans altered it,» says invertebrate paleontologist Sally Walker of the University of Georgia, Athens.

In a separate study, CT analysis of the inner ear of Archaeopteryx — a 145 - million - year - old creature considered to be a link between reptiles and birds — indicated that it «had hearing ability much like a modern emu,» says Paul Barrett, another paleontologist at the museum.

An international team of Spanish paleontologists and NHM's Director of the Dinosaur Institute, Dr. Luis M. Chiappe, studied the exceptionally preserved wing of a 125 - million - year - old bird from central Spain.

For their new study, paleontologists Matthew Clapham and Jered Karr of the University of California, Santa Cruz, sorted more than 10,500 fossils of flying insects that lived in the past 320 million years into 10 - million - year intervals.

«It was an event of global proportions,» says Liz Truswell, a paleontologist at the Australian National University in Canberra who specializes in pollen studies.

Mark Uhen, a paleontologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, adds that the study is the «first real test of the idea that the evolution of large body size in cetaceans is a dietary adaptation.»

Such an interpretation requires an abundance of caution, says D. Charles Deeming, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Lincoln in England not involved in the study.

It is a beauty — perhaps the most complete T. rex skull ever discovered — and Fraley and Graham Lacey decided it should be prepared by a museum, where paleontologists could study it.

The study brings relevant new data to the question of dinosaur posture, says paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Chicago.

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.

In the last few years, cutting - edge CT scans and other novel techniques have dramatically altered how paleontologists visualize and study ancient life.

«This is wholly unexpected,» says Stephen Brusatte, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, who wasn't involved in the study.

A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.

Paleontologist Harry Dowsett of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, who was also not involved in the study, says that he sees evidence of Rowley's model in the distribution of surface rock outcrops.

Trachilos study co-author Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Sweden's Uppsala University, says critics have accused the team of trying to revive a long - debunked idea that our species evolved in Europe.

By studying 81 skeletons and 477 skeletal features or characters, paleontologists conclude that the fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus that they rightfully belong to a different genus.

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 findings are «a very important contribution in addressing who turtles are related to, as well as the evolutionary origin of the turtle shell,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who was not involved with the study.

Birds» and bats» wings could be called exaptations of arms; however, the structural changes that followed can not be called adaptations because «you are talking about a historical incident; it's not something you can test,» said Mark Norell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who studied with Vrba.

It's not there in the actual foot, it's the nature of the sediment,» says Martin Whyte, a paleontologist who collaborated on the study.

«It's a really nice example of a key study where humans and climate seem to be intersecting in some way,» says Paul Koch, a paleontologist and geoscientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who wasn't involved in the research.