Sentences with phrase «say paleontologists»

California gray whales may be able to quadruple their numbers to nearer 100,000, say paleontologists looking at how these encrusted denizens of the Pacific survived the last Ice Age.

Our earliest ancestors may have breathed through their ears, say paleontologists Martin Brazeau and Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden.

T. abini «is a significant find» that shifts the fossil record of tree - dwelling birds significantly back in time, says paleontologist Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, who led the team that reported on the penguin fossils.

«We call this bone form fibrolamellar,» says the paleontologist.

«That's what sets this fossil apart,» says paleontologist Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Without any lower - body bones for N. alesi, it's too early to rule out the possibility that Nyanzapithecus gave rise to modern gibbons and perhaps Oreopithecus as well, says paleontologist David Alba of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona.

The range of crocodile marks described in the new study doesn't look «especially like» damage to the 130,000 - year - old mastodon bones on California's coast, says paleontologist Daniel Fisher of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a coauthor of the ancient California bones paper.

Pulanesaura, says paleontologist Blair McPhee, lead author of the August study describing the dinosaur, suggests sauropods evolved to exploit untapped food sources.

«We can't say anything,» says paleontologist Jørn Hurum of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum in Norway, where the skeleton is kept.

«I honestly think this is an incredible job of marketing,» says paleontologist K. Christopher Beard of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has not seen the report but has read the news.

«Just because Archaeopteryx was the first feathered dinosaur found, doesn't mean it has to play a central role in the actual history of the origins of birds,» says paleontologist Thomas Holtz of the University of Maryland in College Park.

«The shape of the brain is imprinted on the inside of the skull,» says paleontologist Angela Milner.

But the researchers might be missing an important point, says paleontologist Charles Marshall of Harvard University.

Older samples should be tested, says paleontologist Bruce Runnegar of the University of California, Los Angeles, who recently gave Bada's team a 3.5 billion year old sulfate sample: «Hopefully they will find something interesting in there.»

This personal ornament was created roughly 60,000 years before Homo sapiens reached Europe, say paleontologist Davorka Radovčić of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb and her colleagues.

The study brings relevant new data to the question of dinosaur posture, says paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Chicago.

«Everybody who has a pet python calls it Monty,» says paleontologist John Scanlon of the Riversleigh Fossil Centre in Queensland, Australia.

«Any specimens from these earlier time horizons are interesting,» says paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who discovered the Argentinean dinosaurs.

Nitrogen ratios proved a «blunt» measure, says paleontologist Paul Koch of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

The finds are «a fantastic discovery,» says paleontologist Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

But of all the new specimens, this is one of the most important found over the last decade,» says paleontologist Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.

Not only does the bird look nearly modern, but it was apparently a water dweller, showing that «ancient birds became specialized in their respective habits» very early, says paleontologist Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California.

The new analysis puts monotremes in a new light, says paleontologist Anne Weil of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

«This pretty much agrees with what has been coming out in the last few years about the last part of the Cretaceous mammal record,» says paleontologist Jessica Theodor, who wasn't involved in the latest study.

«That's about as tall as a medium - sized man,» said paleontologist Gerald Mayr from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and the lead author of the study on Kumimanu biceae.

After the end - Cretaceous mass extinction, shark and marine reptile diversity crashed, and formerly prolific sea mollusks known as ammonoids went extinct, said paleontologist Lauren Sallan at the University of Pennsylvania, who did not take part in this research.

Not exact matches

We don't go to all this effort to dig this stuff out of the ground to then destroy it in acid,» says dinosaur paleontologist Thomas Holtz Jr., of the University of Maryland.

«Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Truthfollower: «Larry Martin, a paleontologist from the University of Kansas, said clearly in 1985 that the archaeopteryx is not an ancestor of any modern birds; instead, it's a member of a totally extinct group of birds.»»

Leading contemporary paleontologists such as David Raup and Niles Eldredge say that the fossil problem is as serious now as it was then, despite the most determined efforts of scientists to find the missing links.

A generation ago, Colin Patterson, the senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said in a public forum that he didn't know of any evidence for evolution.

«Paleontologists have come up with various kill scenarios for mass extinctions, but plant life may not be affected by dying suddenly as much as through interrupting one part of the life cycle, such as reproduction, over a long period of time, causing the population to dwindle and potentially disappear,» said co-author Cindy Looy, a UC Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology.

The find may also alter what paleontologists hunt for in the field, as well as how they understand existing collections, says Max Langer, a paleontologist at the University of São Paulo in Rio Claro, Brazil.

Luis Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California who was not involved in the work, says it is not a revelation, even if it does support self - powered flight.

The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections, for signs of other representatives of modern bird groups, Witmer says.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

«Imagine a cow - sized, plant - eating reptile with a knobby skull and bony armor down its back,» said co-author Linda Tsuji of the Royal Ontario Museum, who discovered the fossils in Niger along with Sidor and a team of paleontologists in 2003 and 2006.

The team's findings «are on par for what little data we have for tyrannosaurs,» says Richard McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, Canada.

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

The other possibility, says Persons, is a smaller theropod called Nanotyrannus lancensis, which some paleontologists suggest is merely an immature T. rex, as opposed to a separate species.

But the roughly meter - long limbs weren't just vestigial reminders of a longer - armed past, paleontologist Steven Stanley of the University of Hawaii at Manoa said October 23 at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting.

But the roughly meter - long limbs weren't just vestigial reminders of a longer - armed past, paleontologist Steven Stanley of the University of Hawaii at Manoa said October 23 at...

«Holland had a spectacular rebuttal,» says Lamanna, referring to a withering 1910 paper by the Carnegie paleontologist, which included illustrations based on Tornier's claims.

«Dinosaurs were very alien, very different,» says University of Leicester paleontologist David Unwin.

«Living herd animals do occasionally turn carnivore to fulfill a particular nutritional need,» says vertebrate paleontologist Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London.

«Teeth are not only the focus of modern dentistry, but also valuable tools for biologists, archaeologists and paleontologists,» Dr Loch says.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

«For a long time, our comprehension of whale evolutionary history was hampered by the fact that most paleontologists were searching for bones relatively close to home, in Europe and North America,» Lambert says.

D. horneri's facial bones were lumpy and coarse, like «mud that people have walked through a dozen times,» says study coauthor Thomas Carr, a vertebrate paleontologist at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis..

«Since its discovery, Chilesaurus has been an enigmatic dinosaur,» says David Evans, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Toronto in Canada who was not involved in the discovery of the dinosaur or the new paper.