Few other supported his ideas, and today it has been abandoned by vertebrate paleontologists.
She enjoyed and excelled at math and science as a child and was encouraged to do a research project interviewing paleontologists by an inspiring teacher.
Based on this and other evidence, some paleontologists have concluded that these animals were mainly living on the ground, like today's marmots and ground squirrels.
Cooley is one of a small group of paleoartists who specialize in fleshing out the skeletons uncovered by paleontologists in order to create lifelike models.
Little is known about the genus, as the only fossil evidence is a partial pubis - some paleontologists consider it to be a "nomen dubium".
Nevertheless, most earth science departments continue to employ this term; and paleontologists find it both useful and practical in evaluating fossil invertebrates andconsequently -- invertebrate evolution.
Paleontologists knew the earlier sloth and anteater forebears of 40 mya, but no fossils from this previously poorly sampled transitional age had been seen.
Sperry was an avid paleontologist and displayed his large fossil collection in his home.
