Sentences with phrase «paleontology team»

An international paleontology team used finite element analysis, a technique commercially used to measure stress on objects such as cars and orthopedic implants.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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?

Schachat and her team combed through fossil information from a public paleontology database and realized there was something special about many of the insect fossils that came after the gap: they had wings.

But last week, at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada, a team of scientists suggested a different killer: harmful algal blooms in the very water that had lured the animals.

In naming the species, Britt and his team, which included BYU Museum of Paleontology curator Rod Scheetz and biology professor Michael Whiting, decided to pay tribute to that gold mine.

But at a meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) here last week, another team suggested that it's a marine lizard instead.

Anemone will present the team's work at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

«This is paleontology well beyond the bones, and [the team's] arguments make perfect sense.»

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.

At last week's meeting here of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, another team of U.S. - based researchers looked at a slightly later but somewhat less severe warming period, which happened about 53 million years ago.

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.

The team of researchers, which also included David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto and Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, began by investigating whether the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous was an abrupt event or a progressive decline simply capped off by the meteor impact.

A team led by Xing Xu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing used computer software to examine evolutionary relationships among early birds and related dinosaurs, based on 374 skeletal characteristics.

The latest find was made there in 2010, and this new specimen has now been analyzed by a team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

The international team of scientists who studied the skeleton of Archicebus was led by Dr. Xijun Ni of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

«If you blow up a dolphin and make it skinnier then that is probably what Shonisaurus looked like,» says Motani, who was part of the excavation team (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 24, p 838).

Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long — bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today.

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.

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«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.