Sentences with phrase «partial skeleton from»

This means Ardi is significantly larger than Lucy, a partial skeleton from a different species that lived on Earth 3.2 million years ago.

Not exact matches

Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.

In 1883, Brontosaurus excelsus — the first long - necked, whip - tailed sauropod to be reconstructed from a fossilized partial skeleton — captured the public's imagination.

CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two partial skeletons of a previously unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.

The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer of City University of New York.

In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.

The finds come from at least three individuals and include an adult male's partial skeleton comparable in completeness to Lucy's famous, 3.2 - million - year - old remains from East Africa.

This week in Science, Godefroit, Sinitsa, and their colleagues report the details of six partial skulls and hundreds of skeletons of what they dub Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus (from Kulinda, the specific locality where it was discovered; dromeus, Greek for «runner»; and zabaikalicus, from the Zabaikal krai [region] in which Kulinda valley resides).

I alluded earlier to some putative hominin remains dating back as far as seven million years but those were only known from a skull in one case and some teeth and limb bones in another case, and Ardipithecus is a partial skeleton with many, many, many bones preserved.

University of Michigan paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich and his colleagues recovered partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, from 47 - million - year - old rocks in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.

The authors state this partial skeleton has arm - to - leg proportions differing from the forty percent complete AL 288 - 1 («Lucy») of this species and the difference is explained by sexual dimorphism (Kadanuumuu is male, Lucy female).

Her most notable work to date along these lines was the analysis of a partial skeleton of a new genus and species of Cretaceous bird from Vega Island that she and colleagues named Vegavis iaai in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in 2005.

A couple years later, fragments of two partial dinosaur skeletons were recovered from an eastern Utah quarry and brought to the museum in Norman, Oklahoma.

Morphology of the Pliocene partial hominid skeleton (A.L. 288 - 1) from the Hadar formation, Ethiopia.

h. Donald C. Johanson et al., «New Partial Skeleton of Homo Habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,» Nature, Vol.

The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year - old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.

«New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.»