Sentences with phrase «paleontologists who»

A new dinosaur from Portugal is Europe's largest - ever terrestrial predator and was the biggest carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic Period, according to paleontologists who studied its remains.

You can even retrace the steps of the museum's paleontologists who discovered a new species of paleoparadoxiid, an extinct relative of the manatee that lived off the California coast 10 million to 12 million years ago.

But Witmer's work, and the work of a handful of other young paleontologists who are approaching the soft - tissue questions with scientific methods, may ultimately allow artists to flesh out dinosaurs with more hard data.

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.

The paleontologists who analyzed two partial skulls found in South Carolina — one recently discovered by a diver and the other unearthed from the same formation more than 30 years ago — put the long - extinct creature in a new genus dubbed Inermorostrum, which roughly translated from Latin means «defenseless snout.»

«From people at UT - D, Big Bend National Park, Bell Helicopter, the Smithsonian Institution, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at UT - Austin, the dedicated staff and volunteers at the Perot Museum, and other paleontologists who offered advice and insight about these animals, so many people contributed to getting the science done and the information out there for the world to see.»

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.

Lockley and Christian Meyer, a Swiss paleontologist who led the mapping of this region from 1998 to 2003, hung from ropes to document the imprints exquisitely preserved here.

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 not just another T. rex - like predator, only bigger,» says Nizar Ibrahim, the University of Chicago paleontologist who led the dig.

«It's fantastic,» says Marcelo Tejedor, a paleontologist who studies New World primates at Argentina's National Patagonian Center in Chubut and who wasn't involved in the study.

AP3 Co-Principal Investigator Joe Sertich is a vertebrate paleontologist who looks at the effects of global changes, such as climate and shifting continents, on the evolution of dinosaurs and crocodilians.

Dr. Fredrick Manthi is a paleontologist who works at the National Museums of Kenya and with the Turkana Basin Institute.

The name Aurornis xui is made up of the words Aurora (Latin for «daybreak») Ornis (Greek for «bird») and xui, in honor of Xu Xing, a well - known Chinese paleontologist who specializes in feathered dinosaurs and the non-avian dinosaur - to - bird transition.

Bridget Fonda is an annoying paleontologist who's never before ventured out of her museum.

Bridget Fonda plays a recently jilted New York City paleontologist who is sent by her two - timing boss to a lake in Maine after a huge tooth is found in the remains of a scuba - diving beaver - tagger.

In Archaeologist Dinosaur - Ice Age, kids accompany Bonnie, a female paleontologist who journeys into an icy land in search of dinosaur fossils.

The ink came from a fossil discovered in 2009 that was gifted to Jørn Hurum, a paleontologist who commissioned van Hulsen to paint the piece.

Jason Head, the University of Toronto, Mississauga, a paleontologist who led the study of the snake and its climate, warned that while the ancient tropics appeared to be a steamy thriving place, the pace of change projected now from the rapid buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to be disruptive.

The original type species is Crichtonsaurus bohlini and it was named in honor of Mr. Crichton and Birger Bohlin, a Swedish paleontologist who studied ankylosaurs of China.

(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.

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(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.

In the modern era, the personages of Abbot Gregor Mendel - botanist who became the «father of genetics,» Father Henri Breuil - paleontologist and geologist who became the «father of pre-history,» and Monsignor Georges Lemaitre - mathematical physicist who formulated the Big Bang hypothesis are familiar to students of empirical science.

(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.

And there's Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit born in 1880 who, as a paleontologist, was instrumental in discovering and examining «Peking man,» and who, as a theologian, remains notable for his efforts to synthesize science and Christianity.

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.

For the dinosaur purists out there who note that the Jurassic franchise isn't the most scientific, rest assured that this exhibition is filled with paleontologist - verified facts, figures and touchable fossils.

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.

Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California who was not involved in the work, says it is not a revelation, even if it does support self - powered flight.

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.

«Imagine a cow - sized, plant - eating reptile with a knobby skull and bony armor down its back,» said co-author Linda Tsuji of the Royal Ontario Museum, who discovered the fossils in Niger along with Sidor and a team of paleontologists in 2003 and 2006.

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.»

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.

«Who knows better than paleontologists what can happen when the climate changes?»

The move brought howls of disapproval, most pointedly from two paleontologists, American Oliver Hay and German Gustav Tornier, who insisted that the 80 - foot - plus animal had walked like a reptile.

We went to the man who'd know, paleontologist and Tolkien aficionado Henry Gee, who devoted an entire chapter to dragons in his book The Science of Middle - Earth.

Both of the Perot Museum's paleontologists credit the success of the 19 - year initiative to the numerous partners who collaborated and cooperated from start to finish.

The project was started by Sam Bowring, an expert in geologic time at MIT, and Douglas Erwin, a paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History, who conceived of Earthtime during a transcontinental flight together a decade ago.

«Since its discovery, Chilesaurus has been an enigmatic dinosaur,» says David Evans, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the discovery of the dinosaur or the new paper.

Indeed, vertebrate paleontologist Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires, who reported the dinosaur's discovery, says he and his co-authors weren't initially sure how to classify the 150 - million - year - old Chilesaurus.

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.

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.

That's plausible, says Ryan McKellar, a paleontologist at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, Canada, who was not involved with the work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.