paleobiologist

American  

[pay-lee-oh-bahy-ahl-uhj-ist] / ˌpeɪ li oʊ baɪˈɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

paleobiologists plural

1. a person who studies or works in the field of paleobiology.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• paleobiologists
  plural

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paleobiologist paleobiologists

That's why, paleobiologist George Poinar Jr. explains, some spider species have developed the defense of deception.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2024

Reconstructions by scientists in the 1920s and ’30s showed them with flesh over their teeth, says Thomas Cullen, a paleobiologist at Auburn University.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023

Zach Wells is a paleobiologist and a geologist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Fish of this era all have “their identities clearly written on their bodies,” said Michael Coates, a paleobiologist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the new papers.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

It’s been tough for scientists to get a clear picture of the megalodon, said study author Catalina Pimiento, a paleobiologist with the University of Zurich and Swansea University in Wales.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

“Being able to work together with paleontologists, paleobiologists enabled us to see the story in an entirely new way and really in some ways rewrite the historical ecology of grizzlies in California,” Alagona said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Such fossil data is, in the hands of conservation paleobiologists around the world, adding ancient perspectives to modern conservation problems in a variety of settings.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2022

But some paleobiologists have recently whittled the Permian extinction down to a few tens of thousands of years, give or take.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2013