Sentences with phrase «years palaeontologists»

For 130 years palaeontologists have been working with a classification system in which dinosaur species have been placed in to two distinct categories: Ornithischia and Saurischia.

For 130 years palaeontologists have considered the phylogeny of the dinosaurs in a certain way.

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South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200 - million - year - old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word «sefapano.»

«New Sesotho - named dinosaur from South Africa: Palaeontologists name 200 - million - year - old dinosaur, Sefapanosaurus.»

James Kirkland, a palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, identified it as being from a lungfish of the extinct genus Ceratodus, which lived between 160 million and 100 million years ago.

The woolly mammoth survived until the pyramids were being built in Egypt 4000 years ago, according to Russian palaeontologists.

Because the Daohugou Biota and the much better studied Jehol Biota are similar in preservational mode and geographic location, but separated by tens of millions of years, they give palaeontologists an outstanding, even unique, opportunity to study changes in the fauna of this region over a significant span of geological time and an important period in vertebrate evolution.

Palaeontologists initially thought that the bones of Albertavenator belonged to its close relative Troodon, which lived around 76 million years ago — five million years before Albertavenator.

Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist and Honorary Scientist at The University of Manchester, working with Professor Judy Massare of Brockport College, New York, have studied thousands of ichthyosaur fossils and have delved through hundreds of years of records to solve an ancient mystery.

In 2011, palaeontologists found the first solid evidence that sauropod dinosaurs migrated seasonally, about 150 million years ago.

Discovered in northern China and acquired recently by palaeontologists from a Chinese fossil dealer, it is about 50 centimetres long and lived 160 million years ago, a few million years before Archaeopteryx graced the skies.

Palaeontologists have just finished conserving a 180 million - year - old fossil of Plesiosaurs dolichodeirus, a marine reptile discovered in Lyme Regis in the 1830's.

The two palaeontologists studied different fossils of the Jurassic dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki: a very young (juvenile) individual of approximately three years of age and a fully grown specimen of more than 12 years of age.

FROGS that would not look out of place in your garden were hopping around Arizona 190 million years ago, according to two American palaeontologists.

This means that palaeontologists can now trace the evolution of the frog body plan back 190 million years, narrowing the gap between Triadobatrachus and modern frogs and toads.

Palaeontologists had earlier traced frog fossils back to the Jurassic period, which lasted from 200 to 145 million years ago.

MEET Diania cactiformis, the «walking cactus», a 520 - million - year - old fossil animal that is helping palaeontologists work out how some critters first strapped on armour to defend themselves against early predators.

For instance, palaeontologists had been excited about prints found in Greenland, dating back some 220 million years, which suggested that the animal making them had a reversed back toe — a feature not recorded in theropod dinosaurs of that time but common in their descendants, the birds.

The Burgess Shale (part of the Stephen Formation) was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, and since then has been a scientific window into the rapid diversification of life in the early Cambrian some 505 million years ago that is known as the Cambrian Explosion.

The ancient fossil of a 40 million - year - old «walking whale» has been unearthed by Peruvian palaeontologists.

In general, Karneval is the word used for the Rhenish (Rhineland) version of carnival in northwest Germany (except in Mainz), while the word Fasching A pair of million - year - old teeth uncovered in Germany will not rewrite human history, two of the world's top palaeontologists have said.

Also on this stand, G01, Yellow Door will be showing delegates the award ‑ winning dinosaur bones, which are causing lots of excitement across early years and KS1 settings, and are perfect for budding palaeontologists and for learning early measuring skills.

BIO: Dr. Carter was a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 30 years professional experience.

River flooding boosts carbon emissions, six new species of Chinese dragon millipedes discovered, how ancient animals adapted to climate change, maths tell palaeontologists where to find fossils, and the Arctic Ocean was ice - free ten million years ago.

Dr. Robert M. Carter was a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 30 years professional experience, and held degrees from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and the University of Cambridge (England).