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paleontologist

[pey-lee-uhn-tol-uh-jist, pal-ee-] / ˌpeɪ li ənˈtɒl ə dʒɪst, ˌpæl i- /


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Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, Edelman’s founding executive director, says the location is unique in the quantity of fossils embedded in fallout from the asteroid.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025

Paleontologist Jack Tseng, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, doesn't think the double fangs were a fluke.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

Paleontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers dubbed the creature Toumaï, a name from the local Daza language meaning “hope of life.”

From Science Magazine • Aug. 24, 2022

Paleontologist John Hutchinson has pointed out that previous mass estimates for Scotty have come out as comparable to Sue and are within the expected margin of error for these sorts of approximations.

From Scientific American • Mar. 31, 2019

Paleontologist Charles Gilmore took the train to Clovis that summer.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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