paleontologist
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"Tamirkhan's hind legs are long and slender with distinctive ankles, traits that are unmistakably zalambdalestoid," said study author Shawn Zack, a paleontologist at the University of Arizona.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Joseph El Adli, consulting paleontologist, spoke with The Times on Wednesday about the find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Countless more fossils remain in the ground, including at Phu Wiang National Park, two hours away, where Suravech and his veteran paleontologist father -- and boss -- Varuvudh work on a dig.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
His portrayal of a paleontologist suddenly discovering that the creatures he’s studied in rock and bone have come to life is just masterful.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Or I could have learned a whole lot more about fossils and become a paleontologist.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
"In these cases, paleontologists are often stuck, as different lines of evidence disagree about what the ancient animal was like," Gordon said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The advance could help geologists, paleontologists and archaeologists assign more reliable dates to events in Earth's past.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Reconstructing the diversity of life in a particular place and time can be difficult for paleontologists.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The upshot is that by the turn of the twentieth century, paleontologists had literally tons of old bones to pick over.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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