palaeontological
- a word derived from palaeontology.
Example Sentences
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Associate Professor Rawlence believes future palaeontological and ancient DNA research in the Southern Hemisphere will unearth more unexpected lineages.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2024
"It's not often you are responsible for safely lifting a very important but very fragile fossil weighing that much," said Nigel Larkin, palaeontological conservator and Visiting Research Fellow at Reading University.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2022
To New York, Washington DC, Beijing, London, Uppsala, ticking off items on his palaeontological shopping list as he went.
From Nature • Mar. 5, 2019
The science historian Adrian Desmond wrote that “civilized Europe, for its part, was quite content to view Australia as a faunal backwater, a kind of palaeontological penal colony.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
It was in France that palaeontological geology began to be cultivated in a scientific spirit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
