paleontologist

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The study, reported in The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, was conducted by a team of Egyptian paleontologists.

From Science Daily

The group included paleontologists and specialists in tomography from the U.S.A.

From Science Daily

Between 540 million and 485 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, so many new, complex animal life forms arose that paleontologists speak of the Cambrian Explosion or the Biological Big Bang.

From Science Magazine

Few creatures in the fossil record have perplexed paleontologists more than the Tully Monster.

From Scientific American

Because the fossil is incomplete, paleontologists were unable to identify the exact family or species the bone belongs to, so they nicknamed it the Suciasaurus rex to honor Sucia Island State Park.

From Seattle Times