Paleontologist

Are you a paleontologist?

Mary has wanted to be a paleontologist ever since she first saw a drawing of a plesiosaur.

Ziri is a paleontologist.

Ziri became a paleontologist.

Tom is a paleontologist.

Paleontologist Torrey Nyborg is helping with the digitization process by going through drawers filled with fossil crabs and making sure they are identified properly before the specimens are entered into a database at the National History Museum of Los Angeles County.

A paleontologist in Texas has identified a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish most closely related to land-dwelling vertebrates, including humans.

Sue is the name affectionately bestowed on the Field Museum’s star attraction, the world’s largest and most complete fossilized example of a Tyrannosaurus rex. She was named after the woman who discovered her, paleontologist Sue Hendrickson.

An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab- stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves, the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive differentiation which the paleontologist sees in the evolution of species.

In the late nineteenth century, paleontologists began to catalog the many curious correspondences exhibited by fossils gathered on different continents.