paleontologist
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"It is the earliest evidence of an aquatic lifestyle in mammals," says the paleontologist from the University of Bonn.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Study co-author Alessandro Chiarenza, a paleontologist at University College London, said an internally regulated body temperature could have allowed tyrannosaurs to live in regions where cold-blooded reptiles struggled to survive.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
“It’s the most complete mastodon molar from our area, and the most spectacular mastodon molar that I’ve ever seen,” Wayne Thompson, a paleontologist and owner of the firm Pacific Paleontology, said in the news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
Leakey was an anthropologist and paleontologist who was interested in animals and Early Man.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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Those features led some paleontologists to propose that zhelestids represented an unknown group of hoofed mammals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 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
Crinoid fossils give paleontologists important clues about how early animals evolved and how complex life developed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The discovery of Masripithecus moghraensis suggests that important parts of ape evolutionary history may remain buried in regions that paleontologists have not yet explored in depth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 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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