paleontologist
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Paleontologists knew the earlier sloth and anteater forebears of 40 mya, but no fossils from this previously poorly sampled transitional age had been seen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nevertheless, most earth science departments continue to employ this term; and paleontologists find it both useful and practical in evaluating fossil invertebrates andconsequently -- invertebrate evolution.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Little is known about the genus, as the only fossil evidence is a partial pubis - some paleontologists consider it to be a "nomen dubium".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cooley is one of a small group of paleoartists who specialize in fleshing out the skeletons uncovered by paleontologists in order to create lifelike models.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Based on this and other evidence, some paleontologists have concluded that these animals were mainly living on the ground, like today's marmots and ground squirrels.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She enjoyed and excelled at math and science as a child and was encouraged to do a research project interviewing paleontologists by an inspiring teacher.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Few other supported his ideas, and today it has been abandoned by vertebrate paleontologists.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the multiple skeletal features also shared by the two groups represent another important line of evidence for paleontologists.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This classification is no longer used by paleontologists, who now employ a cladistic approach.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Paleontologists also believe that the dorsal fins were reduced but larger than that of the ancestors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He played a hopeless-romanticpaleontologistwho works at a museum and later becomes a professor at a university.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some 25 species of fossil fishes are often found with stomach contents preserved, enabling paleontologists to study predator-prey relationships in this ecosystem.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It covers an area of 1.5 million square km (600,000 square miles), although only a tiny fraction is exposed and accessible to geologists and paleontologists.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The dinosaurs featured in the show are actual dinosaurs discovered by paleontologists.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Whether the proostracum was connected to or derived from the phragmocone is still a subject of debate among paleontologists.
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