Sentence examples for specimens date from inspiring English sources
Pāli poems, with their new metres (often based on a musical phrase), stylistic features, figures of speech, and choice diction, foreshadow classical kāvya literature in Sanskrit, whose extant specimens date from a later period.
Although the specimens date back to about 1.8 million years ago, each individual's lifetime was probably separated by thousands or tens of thousands of years, indicating that Paranthropus robustus was quite capable of dealing with changes in climate or different habitats.
Some of the vintage specimens date back to as early as the 1930s, and the wear and tear from rental use is visible.
He found that specimens dating back to the nineteen-thirties were indeed already carrying the fungus.
It is similar to specimens dating to between 1.9 and 1.8 mya from Koobi Fora, Kenya.
In the seventeen months since he pleaded guilty, he has helped to widen the U.S. investigation into fossil smuggling, providing details about specific specimens, dates, and locations.
Fossil specimens dating back 360 million years to the Devonian period were first discovered in Greenland 70 years ago, and until the mid-1980's Ichthyostega was the earliest known tetrapod.
In addition, specimens dating to 1889, 1918, and 1963 that had been erroneously classified as other species were subsequently identified in museum collections.
They looked at living birds and museum specimens dating back hundreds of years, including many from a part of New Zealand's South Island where yellow-eyed penguins are no longer found.
Twenty museum beetle specimens dating from as far back as 1820 were immersed in the solution for about 16 hours, then removed and dried, their exoskeletons and other features intact.
On the face of it, little in Lena Herzog's earlier monographs prepares her audience for LOST SOULS (de.MO design, $54), photographs taken in "cabinets of curiosities," collections of anatomical specimens dating back to the 17th century.
