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Dr Paul Davis, palaeontologist and geology curator at Lyme Regis Museum, said that it will help researchers understand how the Jurassic croc hunted in the world's early oceans.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Dr Susannah Lydon, a palaeontologist at the University of Nottingham, said fossils were more common than people might expect.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025

Apex was discovered by chance by a palaeontologist in 2022 near the suitably named town of Dinosaur in the western US state of Colorado.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024

Realising they had discovered something significant, they contacted leading ichthyosaur expert, Dr Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist at The University of Manchester.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

The palaeontologist was, by this time, able to speak as confidently about the animal of the Belemnite, as Zadig was respecting the queen's spaniel.

From On the Method of Zadig by Huxley, Thomas Henry