paleontologist
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Dr Nick Longrich, a paleontologist at the University of Bath, said his hunch was that they were mainly preying on ammonites.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
If you’re a paleontologist, you probably know this.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
The fossils were unearthed from the Bayanshiree Formation in southeastern Mongolia and were first studied in the 1970s by paleontologist Altangerel Perle, who initially compared them to a similar species known as Alectrosaurus from China.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025
It was developed in conjunction with paleontologist Gregory M. Erickson, currently a member of the faculty of Florida State University.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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