Sentences with phrase «partial skull»

But scientists examining the 30 - million - year - old partial skulls of two dwarf dolphins found that not only were they missing their pearly whites, but the snub - nosed cetaceans likely slurped up their prey from the seafloor.

In the early 1960s, a team led by palaeoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey found a deformed lower jaw, hand and partial skull in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

The fossil bed found in Brazil contained hundreds of bones from roughly 50 individual pterosaurs, including partial skulls and jawbones, according to the study.

The paleontologists who analyzed two partial skulls found in South Carolina — one recently discovered by a diver and the other unearthed from the same formation more than 30 years ago — put the long - extinct creature in a new genus dubbed Inermorostrum, which roughly translated from Latin means «defenseless snout.»

A newly discovered partial skull is offering another clue to help solve the mystery of the ancestry of Neandertals.

A fossil partial skull, teeth, and associated skeleton of a small toothed whale, estimated 2 - 2.5 m long.

The fossil in question is a 26 - centimeter - long partial skull of a fierce predator, as evidenced by three parallel rows of sharp teeth up to 2 centimeters long along the jaw margins, as well as several smaller teeth inside the mouth.

Now, two partial skulls from eastern China are emerging as prime candidates for showing what these shadowy people may have looked like.

The musicians were dressed in top hats and tails, with partial skulls painted on half of each of their faces.

Kosmoceratops «s almost complete skull was found in the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument along with two partial skulls of a second species, named Utahceratops gettyi.

The preserved bits that hadn't been lost to erosion include a partial skull, lower jawbones, a few scattered teeth, and a scapula (which in humans is commonly known as the shoulder blade).

Trinkaus and colleagues, describing the partial skulls in March in Science, won't speculate on whether they belonged to Homo sapiens transitioning from archaic to modern, the elusive Denisovans or an as - yet - unidentifi ed hominin species.

A top - down view of a partial skull unearthed in China.

But «Itchy» was no reptile: The animal, known from two partial skulls and described in July in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, was actually an ancient mammal relative.

The fossil, a partial skull about 9 inches long, was discovered in southeastern Alaska by Donald J. Miller, a geologist with the United States Geological Survey.

The remains, which include a partial skull, were found in the 1860s in a limestone cave along with lynx, mammoth and other animals.

Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels and his colleagues analysed six partial skulls and several hundred other fossils of limb and other bones from two sites in south - east Siberia.

Tseng and his colleagues have uncovered a partial skull, a jawbone and a few teeth belonging to a species of big cat in the Zanda basin in the south - west Tibetan plateau, dated to 5.95 to 4.10 million years ago (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rspb.2013.2686).

For now, the nearest we got was in 2001, when researchers described the partial skull and jaw fragments of a 6 - to 7 - million - year - old hominin from the deserts of northern Chad.

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).

The overall shape and discrete morphological features of the Manot 1 calvaria demonstrate that this partial skull is unequivocally modern.

The partial skull on the left comes from a cat.

This fossil is a partial skull with very thick bones thought to be an archaic Homo sapiens (sometimes classified as Homo heidelbergensis), and about 200,000 to 300,000 years old.

OH13 is a partial skull, with braincase, palate and both upper and lower teeth.

Hundreds of bones of Caiuajara dobruskii, including at least 14 partial skulls, at a site in southern Brazil.