paleontology
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In the subreddit, the latest advancements in paleontology appear alongside divided reactions to dinosaur media, like Netflix’s recent Morgan Freeman-narrated docuseries, “The Dinosaurs.”
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
To understand how this played out, the research team assembled an extensive fossil database spanning two centuries of late Ordovician and early Silurian paleontology.
From Science Daily • Jan. 11, 2026
How quickly marine ecosystems recovered after this disaster has been one of the most hotly debated questions in paleontology.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
This summer, Austin Hendy, an assistant curator at the Natural History Museum who specializes in invertebrate paleontology, spent hours sifting and sorting through thousands of fossilized shells found in the shell bed.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
It would be reasonable to suppose that Richard Owen’s petty rivalries marked the low point of nineteenth-century paleontology, but in fact worse was to come, this time from overseas.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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