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paleontology

[pey-lee-uhn-tol-uh-jee, pal-ee-] / ˌpeɪ li ənˈtɒl ə dʒi, ˌpæl i- /
NOUN
archaeology
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Advances in imaging technology have transformed paleontology, allowing scientists to extract detailed information from fossils without damaging them.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 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

“It’s frustrating when you work in paleontology and you feel like it’s not effective science communication, and I wish I’d done a bit better.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025

It was the first time that Milad, a 17 year-old senior, had held a 125,000-year-old fossil and now he hopes to study marine paleontology at a university as he applies to colleges this fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

Between them they changed the world of paleontology.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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