geologist

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The books themselves were both 1836 works about fossils, written by geologist Reverend William Buckland.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

The search began in 2019 in the Sahara Desert, where French geologist Hugues Faure had said he found a tooth belonging to the giant predator Carcharodontosaurus in the 1950s.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

In it, a French geologist mentioned a single sabre shaped fossil tooth resembling those of the massive predator Carcharodontosaurus, originally found in Egypt's Western Desert in the early 1900s.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Being a geologist, I can hear its story in my cognitive mind—of ancient mountain-building, recrystallization, eons of erosion, glacial polish and grave-digging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

An unlucky Canadian geologist named Lawrence Morley came up with the same conclusion at the same time, but couldn’t find anyone to publish his paper.

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