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Paleontology   Listen
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Paleontology  n.  The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.






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"Paleontology" Quotes from Famous Books



... flourished, and persisted through immemorial ages, and then vanished. The vicissitudes in the history of humanity during its stay on this southern continent have been as strange, varied, and inexplicable as paleontology shows to have been the case, on the same continent, in the history of the higher forms of animal life during the age of mammals. Colonel Rondon stated that such figures as these are not found anywhere else in Matto Grosso where he has been, and therefore it was ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

... Department of Paleontology consisted of a set of its publications on the paleontology of the State of New York—35 volumes—covering the period 1847-1904, and a set of wing frames with many of the original drawings and plates ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis



Words linked to "Paleontology" :   paleontological, palaeontology, human paleontology, paleontologist, frill, vertebrate paleontology, paleobiology, fossilology, micropaleontology



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