Sentences with phrase «small bone fragments»

This study reveals that the small bone fragments were created during drought periods by weathering and erosion of bones disintegrating at the surface.

«It's not easy to distinguish between an elk and a giant deer using the morphology of small bone fragments.

Not exact matches

The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

Meanwhile humans around the globe have bones just as small or smaller than these fragments from Palau, says William L. Jungers of Stony Brook University, who has been studying the postcranial skeleton of LB1.

The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

Only a few photos and small fragments of bones bear witness today to the original find situation.

The uninterrupted freeze of the permafrost preserved DNA in the horse bone, but since DNA decays into smaller and less intelligible fragments over time, the specimen seemed too ancient to analyze.

Until now, the only evidence that sauropods lived in Scotland came from a small number of bone and teeth fragments.

This fragment of rib bone is the only known piece of small, portable Ice Age art showing an animal from Britain and tells us about the movement of people, the animals they hunted and how these people saw the world.

The benches had been removed and the bodies reassembled: men, women and small children laid in rows of skulls and spines, femurs, fragments of cloth stuck to mummified remains, many of the adults missing feet, all missing bones that had been carried off by scavenging dogs.

The hard matrix of the bone can pass through your dog's system, if in small enough fragments, BUT — they may leave a path of discomfort and illness in their wake.

Fragmented Coronoid Process Small piece of bone broken off the ulna, often referred to as elbow dysplasia.

Bone fragments can be too large to pass through the pyloric sphincter (the exit from the stomach to the small intestine) or they may become lodged along the way through the intestinal tract.

The project revealed several PET capabilities for equine imaging: • identified small areas of bone remodeling at the attachment of tendons or ligaments missed with other modalities • showed increased activity in bone adjacent to joints, where degenerative changes are known to occur, before morphological changes were present • revealed increased activity in some joint fragments whereas other joint fragments appeared quiet • demonstrated that some areas of bone proliferation were active, whereas others were quiescent.

A comminuted fracture is when the bone is splintered or fragmented, with a minimum of three fracture fragments (fragments may be small or large), where the fracture lines interconnect.

The artist has created multiple small elements that the artist calls «bones», as well as a work of re-composed fragments that are left behind after paring off other works.