vertebrate paleontology

Scientific American Arabic Edition (For Science) and the Egyptian Knowledge Bank announced on Friday night, the official inauguration of the Mansoura University Vertebrate Palaeontology (MUVP) to be the first of its kind in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA).

"I was immediately excited, it was just perfect and I knew it was an important find that needed to be shared with people." He told Museums Victoria, and Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate palaeontology, confirmed the seven centimetre-long teeth were from an extinct species of predator known as the great jagged narrow-toothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens).

While studying at the Geology Department of Tartu State University through 1947-1952, she got interested in vertebrate palaeontology. In her diploma paper she described new finds of Holonema (Mark 1953a, 1953b).

He thinks that most pterosaurs probably had well-developed wings upon hatching, but that some features were made of cartilage, which is less likely to fossilise."These animals would weigh just a few grams when hatched, and almost certainly didn't need crisply sculpted, well-ossified wing bones to fly," he says."Cartilage would be strong enough." His own team's work, presented in September at the Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy in Birmingham, UK, have found that hatchling fossils of two other pterosaur species do look flight-ready, with bones that appear robust and have high bending strength.

PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 3(1), 1-7.

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"The butterfly shaped frill, or neck shield, of Mercuriceratops is unlike anything we have seen before," said David Evans, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.

Pian, the lead author of the research published in the US-based Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, said any new species, even though incomplete, was an important aid in understanding more about the fascinating mammals.

In 2012, Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing and his colleagues uncovered a 9-metre-long tyrannosaur by the name of Yutyrannus huali3 from a similar time period.

Erich Fitzgerald is the Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museum Victoria.

Professor Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Bristol, said: "Life seemed to be getting back to normal when another crisis hit and set it back again.