"Most probably lived long, hard lives in the hands of tradesmen and outdoors types and were just used up well before there was any thought about collectibility," he said.
The previous record holder for heftiest feathered dinosaur Beipiaosaurus, a creature that most probably lived alongside Y. huali weighed only one-fortieth as much.
However, the excellent preservation of our new fossils suggests that Q. jurassica did not travel long distances and, unlike crown group Athericidae, most probably lived in still water near to or in the Daohugou palaeolake, a low-energy preservation environment (Wang et al., 2013).
Thus, although most villagers probably lived some part of their lives in such a household, most village households at any given time contained only parents and children, with perhaps other random relatives.
An alternative explanation for our observation of D. sechellia's status as an outlier is that 'typical' gene expression levels in this species would most probably be observed when it is living on its native host, M. citrifolia [ 41].
They've been on dates, fallen in love, fought, made up, had sex and, most probably, even lived together before going down the aisle.
The giant birds likely lived in a variety of environments, but after closely examining the sediments in which the fossils were discovered, Averianov discovered that most of the toothless pterosaurs probably lived near lakes and rivers and along coastlines.
"They [the two individuals] probably lived, like most citizens of Amarna, in a small house adjacent to that of a larger villa belonging to one of the city's officials, for whom they provided services and labor in exchange for basic provisions, especially grain," Stevens said.
Jñānagarbha, who was most probably the teacher of Śāntarakṣita, probably lived in the early eighth century.
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Most historians of Hindu mysticism, however, hold that Nimbarka probably lived in the 12th or 13th century.
