Sentences with phrase «skull bone fossils»

Not exact matches

Scientists first unearthed the creature's fossils, including limb bones and a severely crushed skull, from carbon - rich rocks around a decade ago.

It will include a reconstruction of the dinosaur's skull, the diseased humerus, and other bones from this amazing fossil find.

The new genus and species of extinct baleen whale is based on a skull and associated bones unearthed from the Kokoamu Greensand, a noted fossil - bearing rock unit in the South Canterbury and Waitaki district from the Oligocene period, which extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.

The 4 - hectare site has yielded closely packed, beautifully preserved fossils that are the oldest hominins known outside of Africa, including five skulls, about 50 skeletal bones, and an as - yet - unpublished pelvis unearthed 2 years ago.

Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies.

The actions of hyenas and other carnivores that actively competed for these remains largely explain why the fossil assemblage at Aramis contains an overrepresentation of teeth, jaws, and limb bone shaft splinters (versus skulls or limb bone ends).

Besides fossil bones of the skull and mandibles, the rock containing the skeleton showed perfect casts of the whale baleen.

In 97 - million - year - old freshwater sediments in eastern Morocco, researchers discovered new Spinosaurus fossils, including parts of the skull, vertebral column, pelvis, and limb bones.

Fragmentary fossils of the new species — bones from a fairly complete skull, as well as some from one wing and leg — were discovered in 1983, when excavations began for a new terminal at Charleston International Airport.

In 1924, mining blasts at the Buxton Limeworks near Taung, South Africa, exposed a cavern containing the fossil bones of many small animals — and the two - and - a-half-million-year-old skull of an australopithecine child.

They have thinner brow ridges and less robust skull bones, similar to early modern humans and some other Asian fossils.

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).

This fossil is a partial skull with very thick bones thought to be an archaic Homo sapiens (sometimes classified as Homo heidelbergensis), and about 200,000 to 300,000 years old.

The fossil bed found in Brazil contained hundreds of bones from roughly 50 individual pterosaurs, including partial skulls and jawbones, according to the study.

The first results suggested that the skull and jaw material, unlike the fossil animal bones from the site, were not very ancient, which made it seem even more puzzling.

Making matters worse, the fossils are not complete skeletons but scattered bones — a skull cap here, a forearm there.

Tagsanimals, biology, snakes, limbs, evolution, burrowing, adaptation, Reptiles, fossil skull, fossil record, Fossil Evidence, University of Edinburgh, Dinilysia patagonica, inner ear bones, American Museum of Natural Hfossil skull, fossil record, Fossil Evidence, University of Edinburgh, Dinilysia patagonica, inner ear bones, American Museum of Natural Hfossil record, Fossil Evidence, University of Edinburgh, Dinilysia patagonica, inner ear bones, American Museum of Natural HFossil Evidence, University of Edinburgh, Dinilysia patagonica, inner ear bones, American Museum of Natural History

Clarke points out (1998) that not only has this fossil yielded the most complete australopithecine skull yet found, it has been found in association with the most complete set of foot and leg bones known so far, with more probably still to be extracted from the rock (and since then, the arm and hand has been discovered.)

Now, if the original writers were more northern or central European in background, I imagine they'd throw in the occasional troll (Neanderthal) or dragon (dinosaur skull and fossil bones) into the story.