Paleontologist

Who Pays for Dino Research? | Dinosaur Tracking (blogs.smithsonianmag.com) - March 18, 2010
It is not easy being a paleontologist. Even though innumerable museums have dinosaur exhibits and filmmakers are almost constantly calling paleontologists to appear on television documentaries, it is…

Local Geology: Estero Bluff « A Central Coast Paleontologist (accpaleo.wordpress.com) - March 17, 2010
A Central Coast Paleontologist. The chronicle of an epic quest, interspersed with paleontology, geology, and maybe an occasional rant from an aspiring fossil hunter. « Welcome to the Blogosphere · Loc…

Mammoths and Mastodons: All American Monsters | Science & Nature ... (smithsonianmag.com) - March 17, 2010
The guides, volunteers and paleontologists at the Mammoth Site are a bit more jaded. They've nicknamed one disarticulated skeleton Napoleon Bone-Apart. Another specimen, found minus its skull, started…

Secret Mom Thoughts: Duck Bill and the Paleontologist (secretmomthoughts.blogspot.com) - March 16, 2010
Caitlin recently told me she wants to be a paleontologist by day and an artist by night. I love that she has it all figured out. Anyway this is what all the young paleontologists are wearing. Head ove…

Paleontology news: Utah paleontologist part of international team ... (palenews.net) - March 08, 2010
Until now, paleontologists have generally believed that the closest relatives of dinosaurs possibly looked a little smaller in size, walked on two legs and were carnivorous. However, a research team i…

Nice Article on Chicago Paleontologist - ESCONI Earth Science Club ... (esconi.org) - March 05, 2010
Via Chicago Tribune: ...It was a giant plankton-eating fish that had been overlooked or misidentified for 140 years, one of two discoveries that have garnered Kenshu Shimada, a professor at DePaul Uni…

UVU Paleontologist Helps Uncover 'Giant' Fossils « UVU Press Releases (uvu.edu) - March 04, 2010
However, a UVU professor is part of an international team of French, German, American and Swiss paleontologists that have discovered that this may not be the case. The team's results, published in the…

Utah paleontologist part of international team to discover oldest ... (sciencecodex.com) - March 03, 2010
Utah paleontologist part of international team to discover oldest known dinosaur relativeSALT LAKE CITY, March 3, 2010 _ Until now, paleontologists have generally believed that the closest relatives o…

@jeffbaltes I hope so! And he swears he's going to school there to be a paleontologist. At least it's not Oklahoma, I won't raise a Sooner!! - March 18, 2010
@jeffbaltes I hope so! And he swears he's going to school there to be a paleontologist. At least it's not Oklahoma, I won't raise a Sooner!!

I have since edited to reflect Jack Horner PALEONTOLOGIST and Jack Horner PLUMBER! I embarrass easily. :0 - March 18, 2010

The Jack Horner in my cell is the paleontologist - the guy who was technical consultant on the Jurassic Park films. Ooops! I want to hide! - March 18, 2010

Local Geology: Estero Bluff « A Central Coast Paleontologist: Mr. Grover ain't lying when he says we have such won... http://bit.ly/aK4lQj - March 17, 2010
Local Geology: Estero Bluff « A Central Coast Paleontologist: Mr. Grover ain't lying when he says we have such won... http://bit.ly/aK4lQj

Cool! New Dinosaur Park outside DC allows anyone 2 hunt for fossils with paleontologist RT @thenorthface @Discovery_News http://su.pr/2iSq6l - March 17, 2010

Cool! New Dinosaur Park outside DC allows anyone 2 hunt for fossils with paleontologist RT @thenorthface @Discovery_News http://su.pr/2iSq6l - March 17, 2010

I'm freaked out that my 3 year old brother knows what paleontologist means! - March 17, 2010
I'm freaked out that my 3 year old brother knows what paleontologist means!

Paleontologist who works out, you're like Indiana Jones" - March 17, 2010
Paleontologist who works out, you're like Indiana Jones"

Getting WISE About Nemesis - March 11, 2010
Paleontologists David Raup and Jack Sepkoski claim that, over the last 250 million years, life on Earth has faced extinction in a 26-million-year cycle. Astronomers proposed comet impacts as a possibl…

Dinosaurs Extinction Cause Confirmed! - March 06, 2010
A team of scientists, geologists, and paleontologists give conformation to the theory that dinosaurs became extinct through a massive asteroid collision with the earth.

Ancient Primate Fossil Roils Scientific Community - AOL News - March 06, 2010
(March 5) -- Paleontologists say Ida, the fossil trumpeted as a missing link in human evolution, is probably more akin to an extinct ancestor of a lemur or a loris.

The Daily Utah Chronicle-Fossil predates dinos by 10 million - March 04, 2010
A recent discovery of the now-earliest known relative to dinosaurs has paleontologists looking deeper and differently into the ancient world.

Message in a Dinosaur's Teeth - March 02, 2010
Paleontologists have wondered how such giants as spinosaurs and tyrannosaurs, both meat-eating and ferocious, could live in the same place while competing for food. In a recent study, a French researc…

Fossil Hunters Uncover Rare Dinosaur Skin - March 02, 2010
Dinosaur bones are pretty rare ... but even more unusual is dinosaur skin. Paleontologists working in North Dakota have unearthed the remains of a hadrosaur with much of its fossilized skin still inta…

67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs - March 01, 2010
“It’s a stunning, once-in-a-lifetime find,” said paleontologist Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the study. “We’ve caught one of the rarest moments in the fossil recor…

Archaeologists Discover Legendary Party Out By Train Tracks - March 01, 2010
COLUMBIA, SC- By carefully piecing together the physical evidence with the local oral traditions that have been passed down from older to younger brother over the past two weeks, paleontologists have…

Global Warming, Not Asteroids Caused Planet's Mass Extinct.. (dailygalaxy.com) - February 23, 2010
"If you look at the fossil record, it is just littered with dead bodies from past catastrophes, observes University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward.

Ancient Tree Carving Points to the Stars (news.discovery.com) - February 12, 2010
Known as the "scorpion tree," locals had long believed that cowboys were behind the tree carving (the technical term is "arborglyph"). But paleontologist Rex Saint Onge knew it dat…

Newton's Apple : Assembling a Dinosaur (newtonsapple.tv) - January 07, 2010
A site that shows how dinosaur bones are collected and formed into a skeleton on display at a museum. A video and teacher resources are available.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnzlea/64883481/ (farm1.static.flickr.com) - August 10, 2009
Paleontologist at work

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azmatsen/3583018874/ (farm4.static.flickr.com) - August 10, 2009
Paleontologists in the lab

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marinasaurus/122554638/ (farm1.static.flickr.com) - August 10, 2009
Working on the first stegosaur ever found in Morrison, CO

Paleo-Profile of David Hone: China, Blogging, and Bone-Eating Dinosaurs | Dinosaur Tracking (blogs.smithsonianmag.com) - August 07, 2009
Vertebrate paleontologist David Hone has always been “obsessed and fascinated by animals.”

Reconstructing a new dino skull | Paleo Dude (paleodude.blogspot.com) - August 03, 2009
I molded a cast all of the skull bones and used the replicas to recreate the skull. This preserved the original bone and by using the replicas I was able to uncrush some of the bones that had been cru…