Furthermore, the lung tissues from animals affected by the 5 epizootics in Washington or Montana were obtained from bighorn sheep that were coughing and culled in an attempt to prevent further transmission of the disease; therefore, these specimens could represent animals at earlier stages of the disease when more consistent presence of causal agents would be expected.
Several of the specimens identified could represent fauna from natural accumulations (e.g., murids and amphibians accumulated by raptors, 1.9% of the total NISP, see Supplementary Note 2).
Thus, the resulting scores of each PC of each specimen could be considered as reorganized uncorrelated morphological traits representing different aspects of total shape variation [ 57] that were used as shape descriptor variables in subsequent analyses.
This specimen could be hundreds of thousands of years old.
The specimen could be removed without duodenectomy.
Through this technology, a whale shark specimen could be identified by its particular markings and characteristics.
In fact, our morphological observations based on isotype specimens showed that T. sinense could represent a morphologically intermediate type of T. indicum, and molecular data suggest that T. indicum and T. sinense should be conspecific.
However, a re-examination of the specimens [11] has shown that this species could represent a surviving member of the extinct family Diatomyidae among the "ctenodactyloid rodents", i.e. a sciurognathous family [12].
As a result, FOBU-12718 and other specimens of Undichna from the 18-inch Layer could represent seasonally linked behavior of Fossil Lake teleosts, although this idea requires more testing.
Scannella's Triceratops specimen with a hole on its frill, they argued, could represent a diseased or malformed individual rather than a transitional stage between an immature Triceratops and mature Torosaurus form.
