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• n  the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains

• While the unfolding mystery of Stonehenge traces some surprising knowledge of astronomy back to Stone Age Britons, the steadily growing evidence of paleontology is tracing life .
• At the boundary between science and science fiction -- in that twilight area where the imaginative sleuthing of paleontology meets the storytelling craft of filmmaking -- lies .
• In the increasingly Disney-fied world of paleontology, it doesn't take a whole lot to get people excited.

• palaeontology
• fossilology

News & Articles

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• Dr. Donald R. Prothero has been awarded the 2013 James Shea Award by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers ...
  Hey, check this out: Dr. Donald R. Prothero recently retired from his professorship at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA after 27 years of teaching in order to concentrate on his writing and consulting. Dr. Prothero is an indefatigable advocate for geology and paleontology, which he combines with a passion for communicating science to the…
  June 7, 2013 - ScienceBlogs
• Nation + World
  This undated handout artist rendering provided by Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows a reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its natural habitat of trees.
  June 6, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
• Meet your distant cousin: Tiny hyperactive primate
  This undated handout artist rendering provided by Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows a reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its natural habitat of trees.
  June 5, 2013 - St. Joseph News-Press

Quotes

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• Mary Higby Schweitzer in Science Daily (press release)
  This will be the first ever analytical molecular paleontology lab dedicated to doing analysis of this type on site,Schweitzer said.
• Donald Johanson in Web Devil
  Lucy is one of a kind, fragile, and invaluable to the science of paleoanthropology (a combination of paleontology and anthropology),Johanson said in an e-mail. "There are always dangers when an irreplaceable object is traveled, but this...
• Stephen Jay Gould in Florida Baptist Witness
  Gould calls these repeated unfilled gaps, "the trade secret of paleontology."