Sentences with phrase «vertebrate fossil record»

The data obtained allow researchers to compare the Miocene whale feeding habits to those of the extant sea whale, and strengthen the preservation potential of the Ica desert for the marine vertebrate fossil record.

Not exact matches

The progressive order of the fossil record, complete with forms bridging the major distinguishing traits of modern vertebrate classes, is a fact.

The study published yesterday in Nature Ecology and Evolution analyzed data on more than 11,000 vertebrate species, including fossil records from the past 270 million years.

While the fossil record from this slice of the Paleozoic Era is too incomplete to say whether any of these animals were directly related or just distant cousins, the species represent the transitional nature of the vertebrate move from water to land.

This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell - crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, which first appears in the fossil record a mere 11 million years after an extinction that wiped out more than 90 percent of the planet's vertebrate species.

The fossil record exhibits for us what is possible for vertebrate organisms, both in niche occupation and in biomechanical and morphological adaptations to these niches.

From fish to monkeys, every kind of vertebrate needs to breathe, eat and move in its environment, so a lot can be inferred about these basically mechanical properties from the bony structures preserved in the fossil record.

«These are the vital distinctions between mammals and nonmammalian vertebrates, but it has been a challenge for scientists to trace the origins of these features in the fossil record,» says Zhe - Xi Luo, a vertebrate paleontologist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

The northeastern part of the country holds a fossil record spanning more than 100 million years of vertebrate evolution.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

Sharks belong to a more basal group of vertebrates and their scales have been observed in the fossil record over the course of 450 million years of evolution, so the Sheffield researchers believe this indicates that all vertebrates, whether they live on land or in the sea, share the same developmental programme for skin, teeth and hair that has remained relatively unchanged throughout vertebrate evolution.

As part of the study, published in the journal Science Advances, researchers used fossil records and documented the extinction of vertebrates.

Sarda Sahney & Michael J. Benton — 2017 (1)([email protected]) Keywords: biodiversity, diversity, fossil record, Pull of the Recent, tetrapods, vertebrates.

The evolution of vision in vertebrates is an important theme in the history of animal life, however, aside from the calcified lenses of fossilised arthropods, other parts of the visual system are not usually preserved in the fossil record because the soft tissue of the eye and brain decays rapidly days after death.