How to Use paleontology in a Sentence

paleontology

noun

• Present day fossil trafficking is an outgrowth of paleontology’s long colonial history in countries like Brazil.
  — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
• Tucker’s passion for Ashfall sparked a career in paleontology.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 July 2024
• Here’s a closer look at how the Iguanodon left its mark on paleontology around the world and the turf around Canyon Lake.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2021
• In the lead-up to the book and film, the field of paleontology was undergoing tremendous change.
  — Matthew A. Brown, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• When it was confirmed this week that Stan the T. Rex will be on public display, the paleontology world breathed a sigh of relief.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2022
• And along with Spinosaurus, the bombing raid wiped out one of the largest collections of African dinosaur fossils in the world, which dealt a massive blow to paleontology.
  — National Geographic, 24 Nov. 2020
• In 1850, Samuel Stutchbury dropped a bomb on the paleontology world.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• In the early years of paleontology, it would have been considered beneath the dignity of the field even to pose the question.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2023
• Kids ages eight to 12 can really dig in with the Kids’ Dig Program for a full day of paleontology wonder.
  — Susan B. Barnes, USA TODAY, 26 June 2018
• But for most of the history of paleontology in the Isle of Wight, only a handful of species have been discovered.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2023
• News of one such marvel took me on a bright spring morning to the paleontology labs of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
  — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 22 July 2019
• And that push and pull has been with paleontology ever since.
  — National Geographic, 30 June 2020
• That was what attracted him to join the Nat paleontology team in 2019.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• To help the paleontology team, the construction crew excavated the rock and brought a huge load up to street level.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• Today, the geosciences, to which paleontology belongs, are by far the least diverse of all STEM fields.
  — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• In the meantime, the field of paleontology was changing.
  — Rachel Fritts, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2020
• In the early days of paleontology, slapping a –saurus on a Greek or Latin prefix was all that was necessary.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
• The incident was one of the most strange and startling moments in the history of paleontology.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
• The realization that at least some dinosaurs still flock among us has given a greater depth to paleontology than the field’s founders could have imagined.
  — Riley Black, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2023
• Ross's paleontology conference—brought the friends to Barbados for the weekend at the end of season nine.
  — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
• In 1996, a fossil unearthed from Liaoning province in China by a farmer digging a well shook up the world of paleontology.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Sep. 2021
• Ross seemed like a geek because his paleontology was frequently mocked and there’s something gluey in the music of David Schwimmer’s whine.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• Since the earliest days of paleontology in the 19th century, much of the focus, and the hypotheses formed, centered around the Northern Hemisphere.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2018
• In 2017, vandals wrecked a dinosaur footprint in rock at a renowned paleontology site in Australia.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2019
• The ceratopsians, one of the most successful of the dinosaur gangs, are also among the most famous in paleontology today, largely due to their show-stopping bony bling.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2018
• All around Africa Genetics and paleontology have both agreed that Africa gave rise to modern humans.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2017
• Huxley’s specimen, a near-complete skeleton of the diminutive dinosaur, was one of the best yet discovered by the young field of paleontology.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• The research is part of a body of work on the cutting edge of paleontology, leveraging new technology to flesh out the study of fossils beyond bones, to look at soft tissue and feathers.
  — Ellie Kincaid, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2017
• The Diegoaelurus is the third major scientific discovery that Poust has made in the field of paleontology.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
• Given the sheer number of papers on the body mass, speed, and bite force of T. rex alone, keeping fossils in the public trust is imperative for paleontology to move forward.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024