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How to use the word paleontology in a Sentence?

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We're just now scraping the surface about nuts-and-bolts paleontology.

Adam Marsh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The way to test between these hypotheses is to collect more fossils, establishing when, exactly, the Eurasian fauna entered Afro-Arabia remains one of the most important questions in paleontology, and West Turkana is one of the only places we know of to find that answer.

John Kappelman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Paleontology is one of the last branches of science where serendipity, where chance events, timing, coincidence plays a most vital role, on that particular day at that particular time, Phil Mullaly was the right man for the job on that beach on the southern coast of Australia.

Erich Fitzgerald

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is extremely fascinating and important for the science of paleontology that we can read so much information from the fossil record, allowing us to better understand extinct organisms and the ecosystems they were a part of, a major long-term goal of our work in southern Utah is to try and understand why the species in The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument differ from relatives of the same geologic age found in other parts of Laramidia.

Jelle Wiersma

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are really just beginning to understand the scientific significance of the finds, this collection adds significantly to our knowledge of the paleontology of California from the Miocene -- about 15-20 million years ago. The quantity and quality of the fossils is extremely impressive, and that comes down to both luck and the skill and care of the mitigation paleontologists and the construction workers who often found the fossils.

Cristina Robins

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's given me the chance to tell young kids about paleontology in China.

Paleontologist Xu Xing

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One of the Holy Grails of dinosaur paleontology is trying to distinguish male and female dinosaurs, i think this is one of those cases that's quite suggestive. I wouldn't say it's necessarily airtight, but it's fairly suggestive of something going with these animals.

Andrew Farke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is an honor to name a new species, but to name it after somebody with such an important role in helping sculpt the science of paleontology is something I’m very proud of.

Dean Lomax

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Many archeology and paleontology sites are often disappointing, because the things that made them famous have been dug out of the ground and are now in museums. it is by far the most ambitious World Heritage site I've visited.

Gary Arndt

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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