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Paleontology (/ ˌ p eɪ l i ɒ n ˈ t ɒ l ə dʒ i, ˌ p æ l i-,-ən-/ PAY-lee-on-TOL-ə-jee, PAL-ee-, -ən-), also spelled palaeontology [a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
Currently, Horner is working on the developmental biology of dinosaurs. [16] Horner has published over 100 professional papers, eight books including Dinosaurs Under the Big Sky; [17] a children's book, Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up; [18] a non-fiction book on dinosaurs from Montana, Dinosaur Lives; [19] and numerous articles.
John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. [1] Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a "dinosaur renaissance".
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. [1]
Some early dinosaurs consumed charcoal to cleanse stomach after eating toxic ferns, study says ... Dinosaur dung study reveals how giant beasts came to dominate planet. ... People 'Thanksgiving ...
Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). [2]
Based on fossils from 1,000 dinosaur species and paleoclimate information, the new study looked at the spread of dinosaurs across different environments on Earth throughout the dinosaur era, which ...
Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.