Sentences with phrase «what paleontologist»

If you probe any deeper, you come to what the paleontologist terms «the inaccessibility of origins» or what the frustrated parent calls a brick wall.

At that scale, you would have to walk about seven eighths of the way down the field before you would come to what paleontologists call the Cambrian period (2).

The find may also alter what paleontologists hunt for in the field, as well as how they understand existing collections, says Max Langer, a paleontologist at the University of São Paulo in Rio Claro, Brazil.

That's just what paleontologists, who consider birds to be descendants of extinct dinosaurs, would predict.

But according to the team's finding, trytylodontids seem to have survived at least 30 million years longer than what paleontologists had believed.

I'd certainly be interested to hear what the paleontologists, biologists and ecologists around here have to say!

Not exact matches

In 2013, paleontologists completely unearthed it, and this week, they have described what is undoubtedly a rare specimen.

«The reason it hasn't been discovered before is no right - thinking paleontologist would do what Mary did with her specimens.

What the Genesis accounts tell us in figurative language, the anthropologists and paleontologists have discovered.

It actually is possible for us to know what sort of diet our remote ancestors ingested, because the paleontologists, (anthropologists who study ancient sites etc) painstakingly collect human droppings, which are then analyzed for components which tell us what they ate.

Just ask a paleontologist: No matter how many dinosaur skeletons or Neanderthal skulls scientists dig up, they still can tell only a small part of the story of what life on Earth was like millions, or even thousands, of years ago.

The team's findings «are on par for what little data we have for tyrannosaurs,» says Richard McCrea, a paleontologist at the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, Canada.

Much of what was once central Pangea remains to be explored by paleontologists.

A specimen was first unearthed in what is now Tanzania in the 1930s and sat in London's Natural History Museum until 1956, when Ph.D. candidate Alan Charig (later a paleontologist at the museum) dubbed it T. rhadinus (referring to the shape of the animal's hip and its slender body).

«Who knows better than paleontologists what can happen when the climate changes?»

In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research, found what she believed to be medullary bone in the femur of a 68 million year old T. rex fossil (MOR 1125).

Soon, in his attempt to prove his colleague wrong, Muller had convinced himself that the paleontologists actually might be on to something, although he wasn't sure what.

As it happened, in 1998 — not long after you had started to formulate your theory of feather evolution — Chinese paleontologists discovered dinosaurs covered in fuzz, and there was quite a debate about what this stuff was.

«That's what sets this fossil apart,» says paleontologist Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

Foot - long fossilized teeth found in the Chilean desert — once an ocean — have long tantalized paleontologists, who wondered what kind of beast had left them behind.

«What makes it so special is that it is more complete and better preserved than any comparable mammoth specimens that have ever been found,» says University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher.

But as for what it is, there may be as many opinions as there are paleontologists.

Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

Because of the lack of records for the Academy's half of the fossil, paleontologists had no idea what rock formation produced it.

When paleontologist Scott Sampson dug up a nearly 6 - foot Nasutoceratops titusi skull in Utah in 2006, he also uncovered hints of what life was like 76 million years ago for creatures on the hot, half - flooded landmass called Laramidia.

«What allowed this lineage of animals to start to exploit the land was not just a matter of changing the fins to limbs but also the ability to move their head so they could navigate in shallow water,» says Ted Daeschler, a team coleader and a paleontologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

But University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno is ecstatic about what he is finding as he sifts through the 20 tons of fossils recovered there.

On a December morning in 1898, a 25 - year - old paleontologist named Barnum Brown trudged through the snow - choked streets of New York City for what he thought would be a routine day at the American Museum of Natural History.

No one would expect a baby bird to take flight immediately after hatching, yet paleontologists who have examined the first known pterosaur embryo think that's exactly what the fledgling reptiles once did.

The new dinosaur, named Rhinorex condrupus by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and Brigham Young University, lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.

Science chatted with Jan Zalasiewicz, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and a leading scholar on the Anthropocene, about the kinds of things humans are leaving behind — and what they'll look like millions of years hence.

If they do sport similar treads, Fronimos says, as with the sauropods, it will help paleontologists make «more precise interpretations about how these animals lived and what kinds of stresses their bodies were subjected to.»

In a paper published in Scientific Reports, paleontologists describe a new marine reptile, Sclerocormus parviceps, an ichthyosauriform that's breaking all the rules about what ichthyosaurs are like.

But in a paper published today in Science Advances, paleontologists reveal what was really going on — that «beak» is actually part of a hammerhead - shaped jaw apparatus, which it used to feed on plants on the ocean floor.

Some paleontologists trained in comparative anatomy are beginning to analyze microscopic marks that soft tissues make on bones in search of clues to what dinosaurs actually looked like.

There, Liu spotted what many other paleontologists before him had somehow missed: a series of sinuous traces thought to be left behind by organisms of the Ediacaran biota, the planet's earliest known forms of animal life.

Paleontologists lie out for days chipping away, so I hoped that what stuck would be the idea that it takes a long time to get these bones out.

The finding means that Baby Louie isn't the only fossil to gain an identity: The same fossil eggs that were found with him, known as Macroelongatoolithus, are commonly unearthed at dig sites across Asia and North America, but paleontologists previously didn't know what types of creature laid them.

«It forces a radical rethink of what evolution was capable of among the first tetrapods,» said project lead Jason Anderson, a paleontologist and Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM).

One of the world's leading paleontologists describes what happens when prehistoric bones are studied with one of science's most up - to - date tools: the CT scan.

However, paleontologist Jeremy Young of the Natural History Museum, who was hoping to employ Geisen, doesn't know what to expect come December.

That's what you'd expect to see in a transition from moseying along on four legs to scampering on two, says Yuong - Nam Lee, a paleontologist at Seoul National University who first came across the slab back in 2004.

«There is a near - consensus now that the simple bristlelike structures in Tianyulong and Psittacosaurus should correspond to the earliest developmental stage» of what researchers often call «protofeathers,» says Pascal Godefroit, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

In a road cut near the Missouri River in central South Dakota, paleontologists uncovered signs of a fight to the death waged 73 million years ago in a shallow sea that covered much of what is now the Great Plains.

In 2008, Polish Academy of Sciences paleontologist Andrzej Kaim and his colleagues described what could be one of the most ancient organic falls yet known.

«Sometimes paleontologists observe anatomic differences but can not explain what their purposes were.»

An international group of paleontologists has discovered a horse - like animal that lived in what is now India during Eocene epoch, about 55 million years...

Q: What do paleontologists do when they aren't digging?

«This pretty much agrees with what has been coming out in the last few years about the last part of the Cretaceous mammal record,» says paleontologist Jessica Theodor, who wasn't involved in the latest study.