Sentences with phrase «prehistoric fossil»

The section of prehistoric fossils helps the reader understand that at one time, a prehistoric sea and sea creatures covered the region.

This isn't the first time China turned up a vast treasure trove of prehistoric fossils.

But Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot were more interested in something else — prehistoric fossils.

This museum houses some of the oldest prehistoric fossils from Chengjiang and Yunnan, and flora and fauna of the ancient world.

Freshly unearthed by Canadian indie shop Reptoid Games following a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign last fall, Fossil Hunters is a 3D isometric puzzle adventure in which you, as one of four playable characters, descend underground through 29 levels of increasing complexity and subterranean danger in search of precious, prehistoric fossils to excavate and reassemble.

The installation, False Start, a 16 mm and HD film shot in Southern Morocco in December 2014, coupled with an installation of sculptures — Lying Stones — explores the production and trade of one of Morocco's most particular items for export: fake prehistoric fossils.

In Dor and Oranur, Paul Swenbeck will present large ceramic works inspired by prehistoric fossils, plants and animals.

It has been millennia since the rumble of dinosaurs has been heard, but now in 2013 at COP19 to the UNFCCC we find ourselves among prehistoric fossils once more.

Not exact matches

Fossil fuels have never looked so prehistoric.

Prehistoric Ghosts Revealing New Details: Synchrotron Helps Identify Previously Unseen Anatomy Preserved in Fossils

Scientists have discovered the fossils of a prehistoric 6.5 - foot - tall penguin in Antartica, which means this guy would, in all likelihood, look down on you.

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

In addition to dinosaurs, scientists in Antarctica frequently find fossils from other prehistoric creatures.

Now, she says, they could unearth evidence of prehistoric occupation at sites where no human fossils or tools have been found, expanding our knowledge of hominin history.

In 2007, an Australian National University Ph.D. candidate named Stephen Munro was studying prehistoric hominin habitats by examining fossil mollusks.

And by tracing the remains of pigments in fossils, called melanosomes, scientists have in recent years begun to breathe new life into the dun - colored relicts, discovering the Technicolor hues in prehistoric birds» wings and the clever shading that veiled ancient mosasaurs from predators.

But in recent years, scientists have developed high - tech methods to map the chemical traces of soft tissues in the rocks surrounding fossils, which in turn have helped them visualize the remains of pigments — almost literally bringing prehistoric colors back to life.

Study co-author, Associate Professor Trevor Worthy of Flinders University says: «The fossils of this spectacular bat and several others in the St Bathans Fauna show that the prehistoric aviary that was New Zealand also included a surprising diversity of furry critters alongside the birds.»

Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.

He also helped unite two fossil fragments from the same prehistoric sea turtle found in different sites.

The skull was the fifth unearthed at a fossil - rich prehistoric watering hole in Dmanisi, Georgia; together, the specimens provide a vivid picture of the population of human ancestors at that location and place in time — and the variation within it.

The fossil, an upper jawbone with several teeth, was found at a site called Misliya Cave in Israel, one of several prehistoric cave sites located on Mount Carmel.

He was an inveterate fossil hunter with access to collections and the knowledge of what prehistoric finds should look like.

Previously only a single species of prehistoric octopus had turned up in the fossil record, so the new finds represent an explosion of information about the animals» history.

Rolando González - José, an anthropologist at the University of Barcelona, and his team had minutely measured 33 skulls that were between 300 and 2,700 years old, only to discover that they resembled neither prehistoric northeastern Asians — those who presumably would have crossed the land bridge — nor modern American Indians; the fossils looked more like the progenitors of Southeast Asian peoples.

Matthew Shawkey, a biologist at the University of Akron in Ohio who has been working with dinosaur researchers to figure out the colors of those prehistoric beasts, adds that the study should help sway those skeptics who think that the melanosomes detected in some fossil specimens are really bacteria and not pigment granules.

Other prehistoric marine reptiles were known to be exceptions to that rule, but until now fossil evidence that plesiosaurs did the same has been frustratingly elusive.

Our avian friends appeared about 150 million years ago, and some prehistoric bird fossils have been found with their feathers nearly intact.

That's why we can tell the age of rocks, fossils and prehistoric artefacts by the activity of radioactive atoms within them, and why nuclear waste becomes less toxic over time.

«Fossil dinosaur tracks give insight into lives of prehistoric giants.»

Fossils and full - size reconstructions of a pygmy mastodon, prehistoric horses, and ancient sea creatures populate the exhibit.

Since 2008, an international research team led by Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP) of the University of Tübingen has been studying prehistoric ecosystems and fossils in Vietnam.

Experiments with modern bones, as well as fossil bones of prehistoric birds and fish, show that these worms will dine on any skeletal scrap.

«Preserved fossil represents oldest record of parental care in group of prehistoric reptiles.»

Our faculty pursues research in DNA analysis, GIS, disease diagnostics and other biomarkers, ecological anthropology, forensic anthropology, fossil excavation, modern Mayan cultures, Global and One Health, and both historic and prehistoric archaeology.

The fossil belongs to a group of prehistoric birds known as Enantiornithes.

Fossils of a prehistoric ichthyosaur the size of a blue whale were found in the beach area in the UK.

These fossils are enlightening because they reveal something about how prehistoric animals moved and what they ate.

Fossils tell us which plants and animals existed in prehistoric times, and where they lived.

Scientists have discovered fossils of a prehistoric penguin that stood 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 220 pounds.

A new species of prehistoric flying reptile has been discovered in a vast graveyard of dinosaur fossils in southern Brazil.

In bold and bright colors, it features fossil favorites like brontosaurus, stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus frolicking in a prehistoric landscape.

The dinosaurs were installed in 1894 by a fossil expert, and these 33 prehistoric monsters have been recently restored to their original glory.

Fossils are the preserved remains of a prehistoric plant or animal, encased in rock over thousands of years.

A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill - Man in the legendary Black Lagoon.

DE is a mineral substance formed by the fossil remains of prehistoric algae.

On July 21, 1932, Hoffmann joined a group of scientists on an expedition to California's Channel Islands to explore San Miguel Island for fossil remains of the prehistoric pygmy mammoth.

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The major 3DS offering this week is Fossil Fighters Frontier, the prehistoric driving mash - up.

The pockmarked surface of Point (2009), consisting of fragments of shattered eggshells, resembles the fossil of a prehistoric arrowhead.