Early paleontologists, never having seen such a creature before, reconstructed it like the dragons of popular mythology, with a huge head and walking on all fours.

Early depictions of this animal show it emerging onto land, however paleontologists now widely agree that it was a strictly aquatic animal.

Early toll gates were modelled on the old turnpike barriers and so the roads became known as turnpike roads, later shortened to just turnpikes.

Early in his career Wolf modelled his lieder after those of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, particularly in the period around his relationship with Vally Franck ; in fact, they were good enough imitations to pass off as the real thing, which he once attempted, though his cover was blown too soon.

Early technicolor theories were modelled on quantum chromodynamics ( QCD ), the " color " theory of the strong nuclear force, which inspired their name.

Early simulators often suffered from flight models and instrument panels that differed little between aircraft, but more recent examples have excelled in this regard, forcing the virtual pilot to learn the carefully modelled strengths and weaknesses of the various types ( e. g. the different fighting and flying styles of a Spitfire versus a Messerschmitt 109 in IL-2 Sturmovik or a Mitsubishi Zero versus a US Navy F4F Wildcat in Combat Flight Simulator 2 ).

Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

Early, African-influenced banjos were built around a gourd body and a wooden stick neck.

Early buses were merely a bus body fitted to a truck chassis.

Early amplified guitars employed a hollow body, but a solid body was found more suitable.

Early hominids likely possessed fur similar to other large apes, but about 2. 5 million years ago they developed a greater distribution of sweat glands that enabled them to perspire over most of the body.

Early tests at different laboratories returned conflicting dates for the body ; later tests suggested a date between 2 BC and 119 AD.

Early availability of high-speed Internet in 1996, as well as the MSU, Cooley Law School, and Lansing Community College student body population, fostered an intellectual environment for information technology companies to incubate.

Early nutritional scientists such as the German Carl von Voit believed that protein was the most important nutrient for maintaining the structure of the body, because it was generally believed that " flesh makes flesh.

Previously chaetognaths in the Early Cambrian were only suspected from these protoconodont elements, but the more recent discoveries of body fossils have confirmed their presence then.

Early medieval legal documents include a body of Gaelic legal and administrative loans.

The main body was completed in only 38 years and is a masterpiece of Early English architecture.

Early in the fight Trinidad concentrated his punches on Reid's body, connecting hard punches to his ribs and belly.

Early Phlebotomists used techniques such as leeches to extract blood from the body.

In the Early Jōmon period, c. 5000-2500 BC figurines start to appear, with a very stylised head and upper body, but the lower body often a single legless extension, sometimes clearly resembling a phallus ; stone phalluses have also been found.

An example of the use of the term in paleontology is to describe hollow calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate or calcium phosphate plates grown as body armor by a number of Early Cambrian animals.

Early in this period the pinch is shallow, while later on it becomes more prominent and the mouth protrudes from the lamp's body.

Early reconstruction with plates lying flat along the back and tail spikes evenly distributed all over the body

Early in 1876, a small body of English poets discovered the French forms of Théodore de Banville, Clement Marot and François Villon, and determined to introduce them into English verse.

Early sarcopterygians or crossopterygians are bony fish with fleshy, lobed, paired fins, which are joined to the body by a single bone.

Early in the year, Cervera had attempted to convince the Ministerio de Marina, a bureaucratic body responsible for governing Spain's admiralty, that the best strategy lay in resisting the Americans near the Canary Islands.

The Cambrian explosion is an apparently rapid increase in the variety of basic body structures of animals in the Early Cambrian period, starting after and finishing before.

Early Chán recognized the " transcendence of the body and mind ", followed by " non-defilement knowledge and perception ".

Early Bronze Age Britons buried their dead beneath earth mounds known as barrows, often with a beaker alongside the body.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

The Liaoning lagerstätte ( Chaomidianzi formation ) in China provides a glimpse of life in the Early Cretaceous, where preserved remains of numerous types of small dinosaurs, birds, and mammals have been found.

Early in the Cenozoic, following the K-Pg event, the planet was dominated by relatively small fauna, including small mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

Early clinical trials typically enroll a very small number of patients, and the purpose is to identify major safety issues and the maximum tolerated dose, which is the highest dose that does not produce serious or fatal adverse effects.

Early fighters were very small and lightly armed by later standards, and most were biplanes built with a wooden frame, covered with fabric, and limited to about 100 mph.

Early MUMPS memory partitions were limited to 2048 bytes so aggressive abbreviation greatly aided multi-programming on severely resource limited hardware, because more than one MUMPS job could fit into the very small memories extant in hardware at the time.

Early mages cultivated their magical beliefs alone or in small groups, generally conforming to and influencing the belief systems of their societies.

Early PC games were distributed on floppy disks, and the small size of MIDI files made them a viable means of providing soundtracks.

Early operating system kernels were rather small, partly because computer memory was limited.

Early HP flatbed and grit wheel plotters used small, proprietary fiber-tipped or plastic nib disposable pens.

Early engines had a small number of failures, due to cracked or slipped cylinder liners, which were resolved by a minor redesign in 2000.

Early radars used very long wavelengths that were larger than the targets and thus received a vague signal, whereas some modern systems use shorter wavelengths ( a few centimeters or less ) that can image objects as small as a loaf of bread.

Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels (" wheelie " or " manual "), spinning only on the back wheels ( a " pivot "), high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a " hippie jump ", long jumping from one board to another, ( often over small barrels or fearless teenagers ), or slalom.

Bramante's work in the city, which included Santa Maria presso San Satiro ( a reconstruction of a small 9th-century church ), the beautiful luminous tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie and three cloisters for Sant ' Ambrogio, drew also on his studies of the Early Christian architecture of Milan such as the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

* Early childhood education, an approach to the education of small children

Early Mars spacecraft were small, and launched by Molniya rockets.

Early Canaanite civilization was characterized by small walled market towns, surrounded by peasant farmers growing a range of local horticultural products, along with commercial growing of olives, grapes for wine, and pistachios, surrounded by extensive grain cropping, predominantly wheat and barley.

Early electric power systems, such as those installed by George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison, prior to the turn of the century were isolated central stations which served small pockets of customers independently of each other.

* Early 1944: the USA government, to try to stop men from being drowned in sunken army tanks, asked the company Mine Safety Appliances ( MSA ) for a suitable small escape breathing set.

Early Human Development 84, 225-9 ( 2008 )).< ref > It should be noted this was a small study ( n = 31 cases and 31 controls ) with serious limitations ( several significant factors were not controlled ), and has been criticised from various perspectives.

The genus is known from the Early Miocene onwards, and the oldest members them are rather small ( some are smaller than the Red-throated Diver ).

; Acoustic tablets: Early models were described as spark tablets — a small sound generator was mounted in the stylus, and the acoustic signal picked up by two microphones placed near the writing surface.

Developing as small shrines with the earliest settlements, by the Early Dynastic I period, they had become the most imposing structures in their respective cities, each dedicated to its own respective god.

Early Christian artists depicted Noah standing in a small box on the waves, symbolizing God saving the Christian Church in its turbulent early years.