Sentence examples for fragmentary bones from inspiring English sources

Skeletons of Deinonychus unearthed in Montana, U.S., were mixed with fragmentary bones of a much larger victim, the herbivore Tenontosaurus.

Second, regarding his DNA, as far as we know, we have no skeleton, fragmentary bones, or physical traces of him, so establishing his ethnicity would be mostly speculative.

As a bird palaeontologist who usually only has fragmentary bones to work with, seeing all these beautifully preserved bird skeletons induces a great deal on envy.

It involves the identification of often fragmentary bones and teeth, which requires not only a wide knowledge of comparative osteology, but also an appreciation of the significance of these remains to the history of the people who accumulated them.

As the morphological sex determination is complicated in cases involving fragmentary bones and in skeletons from infants and children, the development of DNA-based techniques has led to improvements in sex determination.

Allosaurus itself is based on YPM 1930, a small collection of fragmentary bones including parts of three vertebrae, a rib fragment, a tooth, a toe bone, and, most useful for later discussions, the shaft of the right humerus (upper arm).

In 1998, Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Rodolfo Coria of the Carmen Funes Museum in Plaza Huincul, Argentina, and others described cantaloupe-sized eggs containing fragmentary bones--and the chisellike teeth of titanosaurs.

Inter-fragmentary compression, shifting of oblique fractures, and inter-fragmentary bone resorption had been reported by some studies to cause anterior knee pain [11, 12].

In 1858, Norris and Harrison sent some fragmentary limb bones to Professor Richard Owen of the British Museum Natural Historyy), London (today the Natural History Museum).

Neanderthals evolved their distinctive features some 400,000 years ago, but these are often hard to detect in fragmentary pieces of bone.

The cave, which has many archaeological layers spanning 100,000 years, has yielded both Neandertal and modern human stone tools and a small collection of hominin bones too fragmentary to be identified.