Sentences with phrase «skeleton of»

«New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.»

Anthropologist John Hawks explains why Ardi, the oldest known skeleton of a human - like primate, matters so much to the science of human origins.

In a study published Friday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, paleontologists report the discovery of a partially - preserved skeleton of one of the earliest known elasmosaurs, from the Early Cretaceous (130 million years ago) of Germany.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are moving closer to understanding how the global pattern of the skeleton of mammals is formed during development.

A rare composite skeleton of the extinct bird was sold at West Sussex, England.

h. Donald C. Johanson et al., «New Partial Skeleton of Homo Habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania,» Nature, Vol.

Owen's surprising results included other gigantic extinct ground sloths as well as the Megatherium, a near complete skeleton of the unknown Scelidotherium and a hippopotamus - sized rodent - like skull named Toxodon resembling a giant capybara.

The skeleton of the infant dinosaur caused a stir and was known as «Baby Louie» after the man who photographed it for the cover of a magazine.

A half - mile down in an old iron ore mine in Minnesota, incredibly sensitive detectors have been waiting for a particle of dark matter, an invisible substance that may form the skeleton of galaxies, to make itself known.

«Lucy,» the 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis (left) and «Neo,» a skeleton of Homo naledi (right) that was dated as being roughly 250,000 years old.

«If you showed me the skeleton of this creature and asked me to make a bet on whether it walks or not, I would have bet it couldn't,» said co-author Neil Shubin, PhD, Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.

Isotope measurements that relate to geographical location, pollution and diet (strontium, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and lead) were analysed in three locations on the skeleton of Richard III.

The skeleton of Megaconus, especially its hind - leg bones and finger claws, likely gave it a gait similar to modern armadillos, a previously unknown type of locomotion in mammaliaforms.

Skeleton of the extinct Dodo, endemic to Mauritius, on display at the Mauritius Natural History Museum, Port Louis, Mauritius.

A newly published research paper describes the discovery of the partial skeleton of a turkey - sized dinosaur lodged within 113 - million - year - old rocks.

August 15, 2013 Earliest complete fossil from major group of ancient mammal discovered Flexible ankles and versatile ridged teeth were the key adaptations that allowed mutituberculates to become the most successful group of ancient mammals, as revealed with the discovery of a 160 million - year - old fossil — the earliest known complete skeleton of a multituberculate.

The skeleton of a 7 - year - old Neanderthal child revealed that kids of the extinct human species grew up similar to modern humans.

Her most notable work to date along these lines was the analysis of a partial skeleton of a new genus and species of Cretaceous bird from Vega Island that she and colleagues named Vegavis iaai in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in 2005.

Kant regarded the coplanar obits of the planets a fossil skeleton of the long - ago disintegrated disk.

The skeleton of the type specimen (LB1) of H. floresiensis includes a relatively complete left foot and parts of the right foot.

His teams have also uncovered critical fossils indicating that the Antarctica maybe the center for the origin of modern bird groups and many examples of marine reptiles including a unique skeleton of a baby plesiosaur (2005).

One half of the rock concretion that bears the original skeleton of the duck - like Cretaceous bird Vegavis iaai (left), along with a computed tomographic (CT) image of the same specimen (right).

Researchers discovered the massive skeleton of Dreadnoughtus in 2005 and have spent several years carefully excavating and analyzing its remains.

reationists have been making the claim that Donald Johanson found the knee joint of «Lucy,» a 40 % - complete skeleton of the species Australopithecus afarensis, in a location «Sixty to seventy meters lower in the strata and two to three kilometers away» (Willis 1987).

This is a skeleton of the dicynodont Placerias, a close relative of the newly - discovered Pentasaurus, with dicynodont trackways (Pentasauropus).

The 150 - million - year - old bones turned out to be a nearly complete skeleton of a nine - foot - long carnivorous marine reptile.

The 14 - foot (4.3 - meter) fish, which has a pug - like face and a skeleton of bone, was found five days after a marine instructor snorkeling off Santa Catalina Island, about 50 miles to the west, spotted a dead 18 - foot (5.5 - meter) oarfish in shallow water.

«With the help of Micro-CT you can investigate even the skeleton of very valuable samples like holotypes without destroying them,» explains David Proetzel.

Paleontologists led by dinosaur curator Peter Makovichy of Chicago's Field Museum found the nearly complete skeleton of a 90 million - year - old, surprisingly bird - like dinosaur in the sandstone of Argentina's northern Patagonia, about 700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires.

Now that you've put some flesh onto the skeleton of your CV, it is a good time to start thinking about what your CV will look like.

The San Diego Museum of Natural History displays the skeleton of the «Carlsbad ankylosaur,» officially known as Aletopelta coombsi.

In the 1990s, before this team excavated the gorilla - like C. abyssinicus, they discovered the nearly intact skeleton of the 4.4 - million - year - old species Ardipithecus ramidus (nicknamed «Ardi») and its relative, the million - year - older species Ardipithecus kadabba.

In this depression may be found a number of artifacts whose archaeological significance seems doubtful: newspaper pages from 1985, the skeleton of a small dog, a warped 45 - rpm record of Sixto Morales singing «El Alma de la Fiesta.»

But the testing program the agency plans to use is only a pitiful skeleton of what it needs to be.

Visitors on their way to «Venom» glide upward on moving walkways, past a 65 - foot skeleton of a fin whale suspended in midair.

All 4 tonnes of the 25.2 - metre - long skeleton of a blue whale are suspended in mid-air from the Victorian vaulted ceiling — a perfect outing for late summer visitors or parents with fractious younger children.

Skeleton of the 195 - million - year - old dinosaur «Lufengosaurus» preserved as found in the ground in Yunnan Province, China.

«The skeleton of Rahona exhibits a striking mosaic of therapod and derived avian features,» the team wrote in a paper appearing in the journal Science on March 20.

Other highlights of the show include a full skeleton of the six - horned, saber - tusked Uintatherium and a model of the «walking whale,» Ambulocetus.

It was in fact believed that ribozymes resembled the functioning of protein enzymes, but that is not case: the latter in fact use far more specific methods due to the chemical richness of amino acids, whereas the process in ribozymes adapts to the skeleton of the RNA that forms them, resulting in a slightly slower but equally precise reaction mechanism.»

The multilayered skeleton of Harry Eastlack inspired scientist Aris Economides to better understand a rare bone disease.

Initially the changes were local, and there is little comfort in reading of concern even 2400 years ago, when Plato wrote «what now remains (of forested lands in Attica) is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having been wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left».

By ROSIE MESTEL Three years ago, Israeli archaeologists stumbled upon a 1600 - year - old tragedy: the remains of a narrow - hipped teenage girl with the skeleton of a full - term fetus still cradled in her abdomen.

The international team of scientists who studied the skeleton of Archicebus was led by Dr. Xijun Ni of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

As a result, the skeleton of Archicebus is now preserved in two complementary pieces called a «part» and a «counterpart,» each of which contain elements of the actual skeleton as well as impressions of bones from the other side.

The tower looks like an unfinished skyscraper, a boxy skeleton of steel.

As a result of this bone destruction, whole skeletons are extremely rare at Aramis, with one fortunate exception: the partial skeleton of Ar.

In September 2014, the same international team of researchers, guided by Giovanni Bianucci from Pisa University (Italy), found a partial skeleton of a mysticete whale in a rock boulder.

A partial skeleton of a presumed border crosser, photographed at the Pima County Medical Examiner's office in Tuscon, Arizona, was discovered in 2009 by a horseback rider in the nearby Avra Valley.

Cave divers in Mexico have found the skeleton of a teenage girl who was one of the earliest American settlers