paleobiologist

[pay-lee-oh-bahy-ahl-uhj-ist]

noun

plural

paleobiologists 

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

Example Sentences

"The marks weren't random scratches," explained Karma Nanglu, a paleobiologist at UC Riverside and lead author of the study.

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Jack Cooper, a paleobiologist at Swansea University, led a prior study using the great white and some of its relatives as a reference point to estimate the megalodon's size and found it would have measured about 49 feet in length.

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

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Professor Ryosuke Motani, a paleobiologist at the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said that these estimates would make Perucetus impossibly dense.

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"The oldest known fossil thylakoids date back to around 550 million years. The ones we have identified therefore extend the fossil record by 1.2 billion years," explains Professor Emmanuelle Javaux, paleobiologist and astrobiologist, director of the Early Life Traces & Evolution laboratory at ULiège.

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