Sentence examples for old specimen from inspiring English sources

In a garage, Sergeant Harding and Lieutenant Beatty pulled sheets off a rather old specimen: a restored Mack truck from 1930, with gleaming paintwork and spotless running boards.

Barnard was eager to find a particularly old specimen of sassafras, the tree that dominated this part of the island before the Park was the Park — a kind of Knickerbocker aristocrat, hidden away among the Norway maples.

Mapping the complete mitochondrial genome for such an old specimen is "an impressive feat," says geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen.

A 2014 analysis of the same specimen concluded that the proximity of the six-year old specimen to the post-hatchlings may indicate post-hatchling cooperation, making the six-year old specimen a possible caretaker.

In November 1997, Rasmussen and Ben King of the American Museum of Natural History spent ten days unsuccessfully searching two east Indian locations before driving west to the site of another old specimen, where King spotted a small, chunky owl with short, heavily white-feathered legs and huge claws, which Rasmussen confirmed as the target species whilst the owl was videotaped and photographed.

As Ristaino et al. [29] had previously reported the successful amplification from a more than 150 year old specimen from the Irish Potato Famine, from only few square millimetres of infected leaf tissue, this method was tested on the specimens used by us, also with several modifications.

They report in Nature that old specimens from the Baltic carry genetic material common to the North American species.

This sifting of DNA and re-examination of old specimens is often the way new species are named now.

In its time it was considered to be one of Norfolk's finest sources of quality oak and subsequently plundered, but a selection of truly old specimens survive.

Old specimens' DNA is typically fragmented into small pieces.

Archaeopteryx is known from several 150-million-year old specimens found in Upper Jurassic limestone in Germany.