Sentences with phrase «skull fragments»

The new dinosaur is described from skull fragments from two individuals collected from the Judith River Formation of Montana and the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.

Researchers from the German Archaeological Institute unearthed hundreds of human skull fragments in an ancient temple in Turkey.

In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch.

At this location, for instance, Horner and two colleagues have collected lizard skull fragments; shards of turtle shell; fish teeth, scales, and vertebrae; even a handful of dinosaur toe bones.

Reiner Protsch, University of Frankfurt History: Over 30 years he carbon - dated numerous fossils, including skull fragments from «Hahnhöfersand Man,» a supposed Neanderthal.

The new skull fragment is too small to be informative — so his scepticism remains.

A fossil skull fragment from 1.8 million years ago has been rebuilt in a computer and is shedding light on the evolution of our early ancestors

A human skull fragment recently unearthed at Manot Cave in Israel provides strong evidence that both anatomically modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals...

Luckily, the conditions in the flowstone - cave lead to the accumulation of several thin layers of calcite on the inner and outer surface of the skull fragment.

Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, agrees that the chances of recovering DNA from the skull fragment are slim.

The current study utilizes that genome as well as two others extracted from fossils uncovered from Neolithic sites in southern Germany — a canine cranium dated to 5,000 years and a skull fragment from an older site, dated to approximately 7,000 years.

But most of the bones are marine: scraps of whale bone, jaw and skull fragments of harp seals, a bit of inner ear of a hooded seal.

The partial jaw, skull fragment and six teeth unearthed at Mata Menge are about 700,000 years old.

A skull fragment 2.8 million years old may mean our ancestors were around 400,000 years earlier than thought

Many stone tools of similar age to the skull fragments have been found at the same site, and Potts» team suspect these may have required considerably more strength to manufacture than the small Homo erectus probably possessed.

The expedition discovered the fossil scraps — part of a thigh bone and some skull fragments — at a site 70 kilometres south of the area that yielded Lucy, the remarkably complete skeleton named Australopithecus afarensis, discovered in 1974.