Paleontologist

created by Webster 1913
(person) by liha (1.5 wk) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 04 2000 at 16:38:24
A scientist who collects fossils and determine their age, reconstruct past environments, and determine the evolutionary sequence of rock structures by examining fossils within the rock.

Some paleonotlogists work in the oil industry, but many are out there digging up old dinosaur bones.
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:46:19

Pa`le*on*tol"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. pal'eontologiste.]

One versed in paleontology.

 

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