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

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

“It’s cool to see this link between form and function,” says Lisa Whitenack, a paleobiologist at Allegheny College who studies fossil shark teeth.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 4, 2024

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

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