In this manner, skeleton models of both systems face the front (i.e., z-axis), thus allowing for the comparison of skeletons in the same coordinate system regardless of viewpoints.
A skeleton found in the same boneyard where English King Richard III may have been buried might be one of the founders of the Church of the Grey Friars, archaeologists announced Tuesday (Oct . 30.
Two reptile-like species left their footprints in soft sediments and excellently preserved skeletons nearby in the same layers, clearly matching each other.
The fossils, extracted from a 9-ton sandstone block, reveal that the adult Utahraptor was a heavily muscled beast, but more interestingly, the presence of six skeletons, all in the same place, suggests that the dinos may have hunted cooperatively an idea popularized in the Jurassic Park movies but still debated by experts.
Researchers reported that a subadult and a juvenile skeleton were found in the same quarry as the "Sue" specimen, which has been used to support the hypothesis that tyrannosaurs may have lived in social groups of some kind.
Minute quantities of metallic elements are present in solution in seawater and also occur in marine invertebrate skeletons, though not in the same proportions as in the surrounding water.
At Lothal several pairs of skeletons were found in the same grave, and it has been suggested that this is an indication of some form of suttee (a later Hindu custom in which wives end their lives after the death of the husband).
Now 85, Prof Bowles – who found a partially cremated female skeleton, dubbed "Mungo Lady", in the same region seven years earlier – was present at yesterday's ceremony in Canberra.
Other bones of the pterosaur wing are also proportionally more robust in larger forms, indicating the entire wing skeleton shared the same increased resistance to mechanical failure.
