Sentences with phrase «paleontologists think»

Most DNA studies say yes, but many paleontologists think that the majority of today's lineages of birds and mammals emerged only after the Cretaceous period was over.

And so even after reading the flawed first part of his book, I dared hope that Meyer might point the way to fundamental problems in the way we paleontologists think about the Cambrian explosion.

The paleontologists think the bone was buried in one piece and then broke in two when it eroded from its original burial.

«We always think of Moab in terms of tourism and outdoor activities, but a paleontologist thinks of Moab as a gold mine for dinosaur bones,» Britt said.

But the earliest turtles were firmly terrestrial — or so paleontologists thought.

Not exact matches

«The reason it hasn't been discovered before is no right - thinking paleontologist would do what Mary did with her specimens.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 — 1955) was a Jesuit paleontologist who developed an evolutionary vision of God and God's universe that was so far removed from conventional Roman Catholic thinking that he was prohibited from publishing this aspect of his work during his lifetime.

Corwin Sullivan, a paleontologist at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology who helped interpret the remains, thinks Yutyrannus «would have been rather shaggy - looking, a killer fuzz ball with deadly teeth and claws.»

[University of Cambridge paleontologist] Simon Conway Morris, whose authority is not to be dismissed, thinks it positively likely that aliens would be, in effect, bipedal primates.

This type of dino egg is the largest identified to date and appears to have been abundant, leading paleontologists to think that birdlike dinosaurs like Baby Louie were common in the Late Cretaceous.

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.

«I honestly think this is an incredible job of marketing,» says paleontologist K. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has not seen the report but has read the news.

If you go to a paleontologist and ask, «When do you think the primates started?»

Bony fish of this age are very rare, so when paleontologist Martin Brazeau at Imperial College London found a more detailed picture of the Siberian fossil fish online, he and his colleagues Sam Giles and Matt Friedman at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom thought its origins were worth investigating in greater detail.

Paleontologists initially thought the bones were from Mononykus olecranus, a primitive bird.

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

On a December morning in 1898, a 25 - year - old paleontologist named Barnum Brown trudged through the snow - choked streets of New York City for what he thought would be a routine day at the American Museum of Natural History.

No one would expect a baby bird to take flight immediately after hatching, yet paleontologists who have examined the first known pterosaur embryo think that's exactly what the fledgling reptiles once did.

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

A: One woman at SVP said she glanced at the exhibition and thought it was just another old photograph showing of paleontologists.

«Mammals didn't get our larger brains for thinking,» says co-author Zhe - Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jack Horner [the renowned paleontologist] took me in — I think he liked that I knew how to use a shovel.

There, Liu spotted what many other paleontologists before him had somehow missed: a series of sinuous traces thought to be left behind by organisms of the Ediacaran biota, the planet's earliest known forms of animal life.

When he first saw pictures of this unusual fossilized pterosaur skull from a private collection, Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, didn't think it was real.

S: When you think about a T. rex getting pregnant and then dying while producing eggs and then getting fossilized and then being found by a paleontologist — that conjunction of events is extremely rare, although that's not to say that it wouldn't happen again.

They were small — the largest was no bigger than a badger — and paleontologists used to think that mammal evolution only took off once a mass extinction wiped all the non-avian dinosaurs off the planet.

Rick's a «quantum paleontologist,» Holly's a Cambridge hotty who has the guts to admit she thinks Rick's a genius, and Will is a trailer - trash entrepreneur, for lack of a better term, who runs a shoddy thrill house in the middle of bumblefart nowhere.

If you have a dino lover or junior paleontologist in your house, this is one of the best dinosaur movies to take them to, especially if you think Jurassic Park may be a little intense for them.

(Typical was the complaint of a paleontologist who prefaced his 1992 book with a disclaimer: «in view of the misuse that my words have been put to in the past, I wish to say that nothing in this book should be taken out of context and thought in any way to support the views of the «creationists»...»)(20) + If pollen types did shift abruptly in some bog, scientists could account for that as an artifact of a purely local change.

Today I'm thinking about theology — not a typical concern in my job as a reference librarian in a legal library, but a friend quoted paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to me on how spirit is infused into material life, and I feel like exploring that a bit.