paleontology
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"It gives us a new way to date fossil sites where volcanic layers are missing, a challenge that has limited paleontology for decades."
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
This discovery, which relied on close collaboration between experts in evolution, paleontology, and molecular biology, also highlights the importance of cross-disciplinary innovation.
From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 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 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
In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a "want of exact knowledge."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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