Science news articles about 'museum scientist'

... of chance in the history of life? An international team of researchers including Field Museum curator Scott Lidgard, PhD, has discovered a group of closely related living species that independently ...

... and live high above predators that prowled the land, Jörg Fröbisch, PhD, a Field Museum paleontologist has concluded. Elongated fingers, an opposable "thumb," and a grasping tail of Suminia getmanovi ...

... of sex, according to a study published in Nature today by an international team including Museum scientists. The fossil is an adult placoderm, an extinct group of armoured fish, and it contains a 5cm ...

A new species of tiny fish with jaw structures that look like huge teeth has been identified, Natural History Museum scientists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal today.

Dinosaurs were dying out much earlier than the mass extinction event 65 million years ago, Natural History Museum scientists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal today.

... Southern California," said Adam Backlin, a USGS scientist who led the survey team that spotted the first ... Natural History Museum made their find June 25. The museum scientists were retracing the path ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of parasitoid wasp that feeds on a common whitefly pest has been discovered in the UK by a Natural History Museum scientist.

... period. Unearthed in Colorado, the remains are on display at the L.A. Natural History Museum. Scientists have found the fossilized remains of the smallest dinosaur yet discovered in North America, a ...

... ) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found ...