Sentences with phrase «paleontology research»

«Our study highlights how, despite decades of paleontology research, new fossil discoveries and new ways of analyzing those fossils can still fundamentally impact how we view something as central to us as the evolution of our own clade, mammals,» Dr. Wilson said.

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.

Visitors to the museum can watch the preparation of eggs behind the glass walls of the Paleontology Research Lab beginning on March 29.

The Creationists over at the DI cite him as being the leader of their Paleontology Research program even though, by his own admission, he has no credentials in the field.

Not exact matches

I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

The work also opens new avenues for research in paleontology: the method employed makes it possible to ascertain the incubation strategies adopted by other dinosaurs.

Unwin doubts it, noting modern paleontology's methods: «Computers allow us to approach our research more like they do in astronomy and physics and other hard sciences.

How rare is it to participate on a research team spanning many scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, genetics, oceanography, paleontology, and planetary science?

The lead author is Ronald S. Tykoski, Ph.D., the Perot Museum's Director of Paleontology Lab, and the co-author is Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ph.D., the Perot Museum's Chief Curator and Vice President of Research and Collections.

Eleven authors contributed to the manuscript that is scheduled to be published in Nature: Dr. Steve Holen, director of research at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum; Dr. Daniel Fisher, professor of paleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow at the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; George T. Jefferson, district staff paleontolresearch at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum; Dr. Daniel Fisher, professor of paleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow at the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; George T. Jefferson, district staff paleontolResearch; Dr. Tom Deméré, curator of paleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum; Dr. Daniel Fisher, professor of paleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow at the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; George T. Jefferson, district staff paleopaleontology and director of PaleoServices at the San Diego Natural History Museum; Dr. Daniel Fisher, professor of paleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow at the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; George T. Jefferson, district staff paleopaleontology and director and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; Dr. Richard Fullagar, professorial research fellow at the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong, Australia; Dr. James Paces, research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey; Kathleen Maule Holen, administrative director at the Center for American Paleolithic Research; Dr. Jared Beeton, professor of physical geography at Adams State University; Dr. Adam Rountrey, collection manager in the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan; George T. 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They are proving as critical to understanding the workings of evolution as classic paleontology studies such as Stephen Jay Gould's research on the pace of change in mollusks.»

The evidence we found at this site indicates that some hominin species was living in North America 115,000 years earlier than previously thought,» said Judy Gradwohl, president and CEO of the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose paleontology team discovered the fossils, managed the excavation, and incorporated the specimens into the Museum's research collection.

The research project was carried out as part of an international scientific collaboration that is helping create and study paleontology collections in Morocco with the aim of conserving the country's rich fossil heritage.

Dr. Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, co-authored research describing the new species, which was published May 7, 2013 in the journal Nature Communications.

Candidate at the University of Alberta, will present the team's research findings at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, held this year in Calgary, Alberta (Canada) on Friday, Aug. 25th.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and his colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Brown's real legacy lies with his discoveries themselves, which still serve as a foundation for numerous geologic and biological research projects in paleontology.

The research is reported in a paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

«Homo naledi's foot is far more advanced than other parts of its body, for instance, its shoulders, skull, or pelvis,» said William Harcourt - Smith, lead author of the new paper, resident research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's Division of Paleontology, and assistant professor at CUNY's Lehman College.

Serrallonga went on to do a 1 - year master's degree in geology, human paleontology, and prehistory at the European Centre for Prehistoric Research at Tautavel in France.

According to new research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting here, some rhinoceros - sized dinosaurs successfully brooded in open - air nests by arranging the eggs so they wouldn't break.

UA Museum of the North research assistant Heather MacFarlane shows off one of the dinosaur bone fragments discovered in Denali National Park in July 2016 by museum researchers working with the park's paleontology staff.

In research published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor of Paleontology at UTM, explains that the presence of such an extensive field of teeth provides clues to how the intriguing feeding mechanism seen in modern amphibians was also likely used by their ancient ancestors.

«Although we tend to think of paleontological discoveries coming from new field work, many of our most important conclusions come from specimens already in museums,» says Dr. Christian Kammerer, Research Curator of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of the new study.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China; and Hou's colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

Prof Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke from the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar, Germany, has recorded the maximum geographic distribution...

Research interests: Platyrrhine paleontology and biogeography, evolutionary history of ateline primates, howler monkey cranial morphology, geometric morphometrics

Her research combines the disciplines of paleontology, comparative anatomy, and development to formulate and test phylogenetic hypotheses of vertebrate interrelationships.

Paleontology and Antarctic research are scientific disciplines that typically generate extraordinary levels of public interest.

«Having seen the «Tufts - Love Rex» during its excavation I can attest to the fact that it is definitely one of the most significant specimens yet found, and because of its size, is sure to yield important information about the growth and possible eating habits of these magnificent animals,» said Jack Horner, former curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and current Burke Museum research associate, in a statement.

Visiting researcher Carlos Mauricio Peredo and colleagues from George Mason University in Virginia recently published their research, including naming the new species, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Contact Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology Phone 03643 - 493093330 [email protected]

Ice Age paleontologist Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke of the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar recorded the maximum geographic distribution of the woolly mammoth during the last Ice Age and published the most accurate global map in this regard.

«The recent research findings show that during the last Ice Age, mammoths were the most widely distributed large mammals, thus rightfully serving as a flagship species of the glacial era,» according to Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke, an Ice Age researcher at the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology inresearch findings show that during the last Ice Age, mammoths were the most widely distributed large mammals, thus rightfully serving as a flagship species of the glacial era,» according to Prof. Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke, an Ice Age researcher at the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology inResearch Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar.

A case study that illustrates the Koobi Fora Research Project's amazing finds in the field of paleontology.

Core faculty members advise students and conduct research in primate and human paleontology, evolutionary morphology, paleoecology, dental anthropology, molecular systematics, genetics, phylogeography, and primate behavior and life - history.

Lamanna said he also hopes the finding will be a boon to paleontology in Africa, where field research has lagged, compared with that in North America, Europe and Asia.

Our research combines paleontology, neontology, quantitative genetics, and developmental genetics in an effort to approach morphological evolution from a genotypic perspective.

«Each recovered fossil helps us to understand the ecosystem at that time and offers a detailed view into the life history on earth,» explains Professor Dr. Ralf - Dietrich Kahlke of the Senckenberg Research Station for Quaternary Paleontology in Weimar, and he continues, «The diversity of the more than 17,000 specimens retrieved to date ranges from a tiny frog skeleton to the largest known cheetahs in geological history.»

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The research program of the museum seeks to address these questions by encouraging interdisciplinary initiatives that focus on important issues relating to the biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, geology, paleontology and Native American cultural history of the Santa Barbara Region.

«If farming were to switch to organic agriculture on the current amount of land that is being used for farming and livestock production, then that system could produce enough calories to feed the world without requiring people to change their dietary habits,» said study team member Catherine Badgley, a research scientist at the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan.

While the findings might be noteworthy in the field of paleontology alone, the research team behind a study on the shrinkage believes it has implications for Earth's future as well.

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