What is "paleontologist"

Usage examples of "paleontologist".

Harvard paleontologist named Hallum Movius drew something called the Movius line, dividing the side with Acheulean tools from the one without.

Most paleontologists agree now that Archaeopteryx was a true though primitive bird which was still learning to fly, but, in many respects, it was still extremely close to its dinosaur sisters.

There was an increase, albeit gradual, in flowering plants after the mysterious mid-Cretaceous extinction event, suggesting to some paleontologists that some dinosaurs ill-equipped to dine on this new food went extinct, to be replaced by duckbilled dinosaurs.

They play, respectively, a paleontologist and a paleobotanist, lured to the park, as consultants, with the promise of funding for their Montana dig.

My companions are Jane Maynard, roboticist, and Chad Mora, paleontologist.

In 1910, the famous American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn made these interesting remarks in connection with the presence of stone tools at St.

I cannot begin to list all the other artists, paleontologists, authors, animators, etc.

Luis Alvarez was openly contemptuous of paleontologists and their contributions to scientific knowledge.

The center incorporates a lab with a glass wall through which visitors can watch paleontologists cleaning bones.

And now here we were telling paleontologists that we had solved a problem that had eluded them for over a century.

As late as 1988 more than half of all American paleontologists contacted in a survey continued to believe that the extinction of the dinosaurs was in no way related to an asteroid or cometary impact.

Cretaceous holds the title of first beak, according to a Chinese and American team of paleontologists --Lian-hai Hou, Zhonghe Zhou, Larry D.

Last year Spanish paleontologists reported that one colony of dinosaur nests found in the southern Pyrenees contained the remains of almost 300,000 eight-inch-wide spherical eggs, in an area that had once been a beach.

The question of who was and who was not an ancestor of man is still being hotly debated by the paleontologists, and hardly a year goes by without the discovery of some fossil of remarkably human aspect -much-older- than anyone had previously thought possible.

British paleontologist Richard Fortey has written with regard to a long-running twentieth-century dispute over where the boundary lies between the Cambrian and Ordovician.