Sentences with phrase «vertebrate paleontology»

Scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named a new ankylosaurus species «Crichtonsaurus» after Michael Crichton, who's book Jurassic Park helped make dinosaurs one of the most popular scientific subjects.

Scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named a new ankylosaurus species «Crichtonsaurus» after Michael Crichton, who's book Jurassic Park helped make dinosaurs one of the most popular scientific subjects.

A new study, led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, China, including University of Bristol Ph.D. student Zhang Hanwen, examined the feeding habits of ancient...

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.

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, published online August 25, 2017; doi: 10.1080 / 02724634.2017.1301945

co-editor Christian Sidor, a UW biology professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, said in a statement.

Our primary field project is the the Olduvai Vertebrate Paleontology Project, and its complement the Comprehensive Olduvai Database Initiative.

Affiliations Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing giants, but an assemblage of quirky little creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.

Findings from the past decade of fieldwork and analysis are reported in a publication of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, appearing online March 28.

«It's a story without an ending,» says Wu Xinzhi, a palaeontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing.

The fossil assemblage, called the Daohugou Biota, is described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The rare find is the first time scientists have unearthed complete pterosaur eggs, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology announced Thursday.

«At first we just didn't know what the rod - like bones were,» study author Corwin Sullivan, a Canadian palaeontologist based at The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China, said in a statement.

This holotype specimen — the single physical example of a species — is part of the Burke Museum's vertebrate paleontology collection.

Visiting researcher Carlos Mauricio Peredo and colleagues from George Mason University in Virginia recently published their research, including naming the new species, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Carlos visited the Burke Museum in July 2016 to see the specimen when he was a recipient of the Museum's Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on Tuesday, after the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago, the Earth experienced an extremely warm period called the Early Eocene about 53 million to 50 million years ago, during which period, North American mammal communities were quite distinct from the ones that exist today.

Fossils in the Burke's vertebrate paleontology collection are stored by locality.

'' (Lythronax's) forward - facing eyes, powerful limbs and large size would have made it an efficient hunter of both duckbilled dinosaurs and horned dinosaurs like Diabloceratops,» added co-author Joseph Sertich, curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

This interval is well represented in the Burke Museum vertebrate paleontology collections, including a rich sample from the time just after that rapid warming event.

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, Salt Lake City, October 27, 2016.

Jade examines an oviraptorosaur metatarsal (foot bone) as part of her work with the Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Grant.

When the localities are also organized chronologically, as they are in the Burke vertebrate paleontology collections, I can trace how those communities changed over time.

See more fossils in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection or learn more about the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection study grant.

Thanks to the Burke Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Grant, I was able to measure and describe an exciting specimen excavated during last year's UWBM field season.

Jornal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28:1110 - 1119.

F. Robin O'Keefe (Marshall University, Huntington, WV), and his colleagues reported at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology that these reptiles employed a unique mode of feeding.

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24:931 - 937.

Native American tribes, environmentalists, outdoor companies, and one scientific society — the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, based in Bethesda, Maryland — are challenging the decisions in court.

The plesiosaur described in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, though not the same species, also sported four fins and a long neck.

At the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting, held here from 17 to 20 October, a researcher argued that what were thought to be two unique dinosaur species are in fact juveniles of different ages that would have grown up to be another species, bony - headed Pachycephalosaurus.

Back in December 2007, archaeologist Zhan - Yang Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing was wrapping up his field season in the town of Lingjing, near the city of Xuchang in the Henan province in China (about 4000 kilometers from the Denisova Cave), when he spotted some beautiful quartz stone tools eroding out of the sediments.

Based on a comparison of the size of the molar to the teeth of other extinct platypuses, the team reports today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that O. tharalkooschild was probably about a meter long — bigger than any other platypus and twice the size of the species alive today.

New fossils described yesterday at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Mexico City, however, are providing insight into the timing of this extraordinary transformation.

Leon P. A. M. Claessens, Hanneke J. M. Meijer, Julian P. Hume, and Kenneth F. Rijsdijk (Editors) Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 15, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol.

The finds are «a fantastic discovery,» says paleontologist Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

According to new research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting here, some rhinoceros - sized dinosaurs successfully brooded in open - air nests by arranging the eggs so they wouldn't break.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

«If you blow up a dolphin and make it skinnier then that is probably what Shonisaurus looked like,» says Motani, who was part of the excavation team (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 24, p 838).

Motani presented his work at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week.

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.

«It's great when [artists] try to be scientifically accurate,» says Scott Sampson, an officer of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

«Although our analysis suggests that the new specimen may represent the most phylogenetically basal Cretaceous bird known to date, this phylogenetic hypothesis should be treated with caution given the incomplete preservation of the skeleton and low phylogenetic support values,» said lead author Dr. WANG Min, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Rather, these teeth were kept hidden, covered by scaly lips, he said in a presentation May 20 at the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting in Ontario.

As Mark Norell, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, puts it, dinosaur artwork «is a fantastic leap from what we know.»

In the Gobi Desert of northern China, Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology accidentally stumbled upon a gigantic one - and - a-half-ton dinosaur while filming a documentary about a previous find.

And luckily, Cynthia Marshall Faux is both — with doctorates in veterinary medicine as well as geology (with a specialty in vertebrate paleontology).

«This is evidence of the most northerly record for primitive bears, and provides an idea of what the ancestor of modern bears may have looked like,» says Dr. Xiaoming Wang, lead author of the study and Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA).

The research is reported in a paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).