Sentences with phrase «partial skeleton in»

When Johanson and his colleagues discovered Lucy's partial skeleton in 1974, it showed that she walked upright, confirming that our ancestors did so before their brains started getting larger.

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This involved casting a number of foot bones known for A. afarensis, including a partial foot skeleton, in a shrinkable material, and shrinking them to Lucy's size.

The skeleton, an adult male aged around 40 at the time of his death, was shrouded in a rabbit - skin blanket and reed mats and was wearing moccasins; he was found with the cremated or partial remains of three other individuals.

Two partial skeletons, one of a male child aged 9 to 13 years and the other of an adult female, were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.

ATLANTA — Iceland's «woman in blue,» the partial skeleton of a young woman found in 1938 in a grave with Viking - era objects, was a child of some of the island's earliest settlers, researchers reported April 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.

In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 197In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 197in 1974.

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.

An international group of researchers described the animal in August in the journal Biological Sciences, after analyzing the partial skeletons of six individuals unearthed in Argentina in 2014.

The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.

In this courtyard, the team found two partial skeletons, buried between 1200 C.E. and 1300 C.E. in a place of honor that suggests they were monkIn this courtyard, the team found two partial skeletons, buried between 1200 C.E. and 1300 C.E. in a place of honor that suggests they were monkin a place of honor that suggests they were monks.

While researching fossils in a museum in 2007, Sterling Nesbitt noticed one partial skeleton that was hard to place.

«I was... fortunate in discovering a partial skeleton of... Diplodocus.

Researchers unearthed a partial, nonfossilized skeleton of what appears to be a 30 - year - old woman in a limestone cave on the island of Flores, 370 miles east of Java.

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 team scanned Lucy's partial skeleton, which preserves 40 % of her bones, when she was touring the United States in 2006.

Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.

A partial skeleton of a presumed border crosser, photographed at the Pima County Medical Examiner's office in Tuscon, Arizona, was discovered in 2009 by a horseback rider in the nearby Avra Valley.

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 bouldeIn 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 bouldein 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.

The researchers named the Lesedi partial skeleton «Neo,» which means gift in Sesotho, a language spoken in South 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.

It comes in the form of two partial skeletons of Australopithecus sediba that were dug up in the Cradle of Humankind world heritage site near Johannesburg, South Africa, by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and colleagues.

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.

Ardi's partial skeleton that scientists have found shows that she could walk upright and easily climb trees and move along branches — traits more easily identified in monkeys or apes.

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.

In the May 30 2013 issue of Nature, William H Kimbel, Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University cast considerable doubt on the recent announcement in the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning fossilized partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sedibaIn the May 30 2013 issue of Nature, William H Kimbel, Director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University cast considerable doubt on the recent announcement in the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning fossilized partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sedibain the journal Science (see the report on this website) concerning fossilized partial skeletons found at Malapa Cave in South Africa and named Australopithecus sedibain South Africa and named Australopithecus sediba).

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.

«Leviathan Edge» (2009) is a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.