Sentences with phrase «paleontology when»

«I always really like it in paleontology when we can use totally independent lines of evidence like that to tell a bigger story,» she says.

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BIBLICAL PALEONTOLOGY Dear Father Editor When looking in the Bible for evidence about how God created the world we tend to limit ourselves to the first chapters of Genesis and thereafter look for spiritual meanings only.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

The dinosaur crashed onto the scene when paleontology was still a young and undisciplined field.

When you query «paleontology» you get more than half a million results, but the top 10 are the 10 pages that have received the most links.

«Now,» she says, «when you're doing work on public land in an area that's likely to have fossil resources, you have to show how you're going to deal with them,» a process known as mitigation paleontology.

«It's great when [artists] try to be scientifically accurate,» says Scott Sampson, an officer of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

I mean, I would say the whole last 30 years have been remarkable times because so many new techniques have come online: dating, CT studies, the synchrotron, allowing us to look [at] individual growth lines in Neandertal teeth,... the ability to date things with much greater precision, and then DNA — and, you know, I was in Svante Pääbo's press conference in London in 1997 when [he] announced the first mitochondrial DNA and I went on record saying it was the equivalent in paleontology if landing something or landing on Mars and who could have imagined 10 years later we talk about the whole genome; it's incredible.

«When you talk about paleontology to people the first thing they think of is dinosaurs,» he said.

Back in December 2007, archaeologist Zhan - Yang Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing was wrapping up his field season in the town of Lingjing, near the city of Xuchang in the Henan province in China (about 4000 kilometers from the Denisova Cave), when he spotted some beautiful quartz stone tools eroding out of the sediments.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

In this Radio Ecoshock interview she says: «I learned about this hypothesis when I attended a paleontology conference at the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs North Dakota.»

When the localities are also organized chronologically, as they are in the Burke vertebrate paleontology collections, I can trace how those communities changed over time.

Carlos visited the Burke Museum in July 2016 to see the specimen when he was a recipient of the Museum's Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant.

When you head out, take along resources like these printable National Junior Ranger books that teach students about paleontology, constellations, the solar system, and the importance of preservation to make your trip both educational and fun.

I was quite confused a few days back when I was not able to complete my paleontology assignment.

When you are scientifically - minded and educated but not a specia - list in the domain (my case in both both paleontology and climatology), it is still extremely easy to see that creationist claims are a pile of junk.