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
Brian Hebert, an avocational paleontologist from Nova Scotia, located the small skull inside a fossilized tree stump during a field season led by Hillary Maddin, a professor of paleontology at Carleton University.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
If you’re a paleontologist, you probably know this.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
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
Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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