Sentences with word «robustus»

John Gray gave the Gray Whale the scientific name of Eschrichtius robustus after zoologist Daniel Eschricht.

One display case contains the casts of an array of hominid skulls: the robust, massive - jawed 1.6 - million - year - old Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans, South Africa; the flat - faced 1.7 - million - year - old Paranthropus boisei from East Turkana, Kenya; the tiny skull and fossilized brain of the 2.5 - million - year - old Taung child, or Australopithecus africanus, found at Sterkfontein, South Africa.

Lockwood and his colleague's work implies that Like some modern apes juvenile P. robustus males left their birth group to live on their own and that when older and larger, had to fight to gain a harem of their own.

The A. robustus did not so evolve, and eventually became extinct.

The researchers found that new neurons arose in the higher vocal centre (HVC) and grew extensions (axons) 3 millimetres long — long enough to reach another brain region, the nucleus robustus archistriatalis (RA).

The Cape Parrot is currently considered a Poicephalus robustus sub-species, along with P. r. fuscicollis and P. r. suahelicus, but based on morphological, ecological, and behavioral assessments, some scientists believe the Cape Parrot should be a distinct species.

A new analysis of burned antelope bones from caves in Swartkrans, South Africa, confirms that Australopithecus robustus and Homo erectus built campfires roughly 1.5 million years ago — as many as a million years earlier than previously thought.

Here is a photograph of a Sydney funnel - web spider, Atrax robustus: I won't explain the biology of this delightful animal here — you may read about it at Wikipedia in greater arachnological detail.

THE Duke of Edinburgh has been warned that his decision to fell the 275 - year - old oaks along Queen Anne's Drive in Windsor Great Park would destroy one of only four trees in Britain that harbours the rare bracket fungus Phellinus robustus.

Enzymes are the powerhouses behind biological chemistry, and the fungi discovered by O'Malley's group — like Anaeromyces robustus (named after the gray whale, partially based on how it looks under the microscope)-- have unusual and desirable characteristics, particularly the ability to transform lignocellulose from plants into sugars.

Populations of D. robustus even appear to have been slowly increasing when the Polynesians arrived.

Using ancient DNA from 281 individual moas from four different species, including Dinornis robustus (at 2 meters, the tallest moa, able to reach foliage 3.6 meters above the ground), and radiocarbon dating, Allentoft and his colleagues set out to determine the moas» genetic and population history over the last 4000 years.

The author's data analysis identified the Cape Parrot as genetically distinct from the other P. robustus subspecies.

The Copeland team analyzed the teeth of 19 hominins: eleven Paranthropus robustus individuals from Swartkrans, fating to 1.8 million years ago and eight Australopithecus africanus individuals, 2.2 ma from nearby Sterkfontein.

CLASSIFICATION Gray whales (Eschrichltius robustus) are baleen whales (Suborder Mysticeti).

Image ID: 33271 Species: Gray Whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Baja California, Mexico

They include; Moringa oleifera (Indian drum stick tree), syzigium cuminii and grivellea robustus.

[103] The gray whale Eschrichtius robustus has not been seen in the Atlantic since it was hunted to extinction there in the 18th century, but in May 2010, one such whale turned up in the Mediterranean.

In the unique structure of A. robustus, individual enzymes are arrayed as a kind of large protein mass or scaffold, called a cellulosome, so that they stick to each other and accumulate, somewhat as Legos do.

Endemic to South Africa, the Cape parrot, or Poicephalus robustus, lives in the Afromontane yellowwood forests found mainly in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal.

Two million years ago, the most recent of these rugged relatives (P. robustus and P. boisei) lived contemporaneously with the first members of the Homo genus — our own.

Australopithecus robustus: was not «disqualified» by the discovery of Homo habilis, because it had never been «qualified» in the first place.

There were two species of Australopithecus living in late Pliocene and early Pleistocene periods — A. africanus and A. robustus.

Gray wale, Eschrichtius robustus (page 455).

These trees are becoming increasingly scarce, and P. robustus is on Britain's Red Data List of endangered fungi.

P. robustus is especially slow to develop and so is found only on trees that are «at least a few hundred years old», says Maurice Rotheroe, Deputy Conservation Officer of the BMS.

Two South African hominids from between roughly 1 million and 3 million years ago, Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus, show lower rates of tooth chipping than H. naledi, at about 21 percent and 13 percent, respectively, the investigators find.

The evolutionarily enigmatic gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is placed among rorquals, and the blue whale genome shows a high degree of heterozygosity.

Working on the pattern of dental wear and facial size displayed in an extensive collection of fossilized skulls and jawbones of Paranthropus robustus (from cave sites in South Africa and dated at between 1.5 and 2 million years ago), a team led by Charles Lockwood concluded there was pronounced sexual dimorphism (males larger than females) and that males matured more slowly than females.

Using tiny devices that record the firing of a single neuron, Margoliash has found odd behavior in a structure called the robustus archistriatalis (RA).

These include Paranthropus robustus, Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus aethiopicus and Australopithecus afarensis.

Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) are baleen whales and are the only species in the family Eschrichtiidae.

Cape parrots are disappearing at a rapid rate... Endemic to South Africa, the Cape parrot, or Poicephalus robustus, lives in the Afromontane yellowwood forests found mainly in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal.

More recently, though, DNA sequencing analysis has indicated the humpback is more closely related to certain rorquals, particularly the fin whale (B. physalus) and possibly to the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), than it is to other rorquals such as the minke whales.

It is one of the winter sanctuaries of the eastern Pacific gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus).

Eschrichtiidae consists of only one living member: the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus).

The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), [1] also known as the grey whale, [3] gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale [4] is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.

Grey whales (Eschrichtius robustus) have long been extinct in the north Atlantic.

Eastern North Pacific gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) unusual mortality events, 1999 - 2000.

Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) travel through the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary on their migration from Alaskan feeding grounds to warm calving lagoons in Baja California, Mexico (December through February).

GRAY WHALE (Eschrichtius robustus) meaning of scientific name: Eschrichtius - named after the Danish professor who worked with these animals; robustus - strong

Increased gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) strandings in 1999 and 2000 - was malnutrition the cause?