Given either pictures or descriptions of
skeletal features of hominids, including modern human, apes and australopithecines, students will assign them to their appropriate group.
Lee tracked how 1549
skeletal features changed in 120 species of theropod from all over the world, spanning the 50 - million - year period over which theropods evolved into Archaeopteryx and modern birds.
Other than DNA structures, notable differences in proportions of several body parts and body colors
including skeletal features, and length ratios of flippers and baleen plates have been confirmed between Eastern and Western Populations, and some claims that the original eastern and western groups could have been much more distinct than previously thought, enough to be counted as subspecies.
H. naledi, a small - brained species with many
humanlike skeletal features, inhabited southern Africa close to 300,000 years ago (SN: 6/10/17, p. 6).
Over time, differences discovered in the men's skull shapes and
other skeletal features raised suspicions that the Two Brothers were not biologically related at all.
Homo sapiens»
signature skeletal features emerged piece by piece in different African communities starting around 300,000 years ago, researchers proposed.
A new docodontan mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of China has
skeletal features for climbing and dental characters indicative of an omnivorous diet that included plant sap.
They compared 501
skeletal features of Lythronax with those of 54 different other species of known, carnivorous dinos.
Other than DNA structures, differences in proportions of several body parts and body colors
including skeletal features, and length ratios of flippers and baleen plates have been confirmed between Eastern and Western populations, and some claims that the original eastern and western groups could have been much more distinct than previously thought, enough to be counted as subspecies.
«But there is a lot of variability there, based on an individual's lifestyle and how a forensic practitioner interprets
those skeletal features.
Palaeontologists can date when our ancestors lost the organ, as the tissue attaches to
a skeletal feature called the hyoid bulla, which is absent in humans.
Polypterus, today found only in Africa, and its close kin have generally been considered some of the most primitive ray - finned fishes alive, thanks in part to
skeletal features that resemble those on some ancient fish.
By studying 81 skeletons and 477
skeletal features or characters, paleontologists conclude that the fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus that they rightfully belong to a different genus.
Individuals from both underground chambers display the same distinctive pattern of
skeletal features, signs that they all belong to H. naledi, not to Homo erectus or any other previously identified Homo species, the investigators contend.
He lights up the screen whenever he appears, full of strung - out twitches, dark empty eyes, balding hairline and
skeletal features.
a three - dimensional computed tomography (CT or CAT Scan) to provide an image of
the skeletal features of the entire rear legs.