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	Tips for science journalists from the Canadian Museum of Nature
		Palaeontologists get more information from a fossil when they find it in situ; that is, where the organism died, as compared to cases where the fossil has been disturbed by river erosion, for example.
		The consensus among palaeontologists -- particularly based on fossil finds of the past decade -- is that modern birds evolved from one sub-group of dinosaurs.
		The rate of species loss documented by palaeontologists for the mass extinctions has led some ecologists to state that we are now in the midst of a human-induced "sixth mass extinction".
	nature.ca /museum/press/tips_e.cfm (974 words)

	Palaeontology as a Career
		A palaeontologist is a scientist who studies the remains of ancient life as recorded in the fossil record.
		A palaeontologist is a scientist with advanced eduction in the field of palaeontology.
		Many palaeontologists are employed in related jobs, such as anatomy instructors at medical schools, while they pursue their research interests in the context of these jobs.
	www.dinosaurvalley.com /Visiting_Drumheller/Kids_Zone/Palaeontology_as_a_Career/index.php (716 words)

	Interview with a palaeontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
		Interview with a palaeontologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
		He says that in Canada a palaeontologist's time is divided by the seasons.
		Most palaeontologists work for museums, universities or national parks.
	nature.ca /discover/fossils/chasmosaur/chaspop_e.cfm (431 words)

	Geological Society - About Us - From the Archives (3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swiss vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontologist, Agassiz the first (his son was Alexander) was also a noted geomorphologist and Quaternary geologist, credited with being the first to recognise the effects of glaciation in the British Isles.
		French vertebrate palaeontologist at the Brussels Museum of Natural History, and (from 1909, at the University of Brussels, Dollo was a specialist in fossil fishes, reptiles, birds, and their palaeoecology.
		Welsh invertebrate palaeontologist, micropalaeontologist, stratigrapher and writer of textbooks, Arthur Morley Davies is chiefly remembered for his book Introduction to Palaeontology (1920) and the two volumes on Tertiary Faunas (1934-35).
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm?name=Archives3 (639 words)

	Caught and Coloured: Palaeontologist
		A precocious writer of scientific works, his formative museum experience was arranging the collections of the Geological Society of Dublin while still in his teens.
		At the time of his appointment to the position of the Professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Melbourne in 1854, McCoy was regarded as one of the 'leading general palaeontologists in Britain'
		Soon after McCoy's arrival in Melbourne he was appointed as Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey in Victoria.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /caughtandcoloured/Palaeontologist.aspx (370 words)

	Andrew Ross - Palaeontologist - Natural History Museum
		I was also interested in insects and I regularly brought home caterpillars that I fed and kept until they metamorphosed into adult moths and butterflies and then I let them go. This was a great background to my job as Curator of Fossil Arthropods.
		The best thing for me now is when I look through the collections at the Museum and come across specimens that haven't yet been studied properly before and realise they are new species.
		Rockwatch is a national club for young palaeontologists and geologists.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /kids-only/get-the-facts/ologist/andrew-ross/index.html (1030 words)

	What is it like to be a palaeontologist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Once the fossils have been removed from the site, they are taken to a lab where the meticulous work of preparation is carried out.
		The fossils are then catalogued, labeled, and stored in an area with environmental controls to keep them well preserved for future reference.
		Palaeontologists also have to keep their paper and computer databases up-to-date with information about each fossil added to their collection.
	www.royalsaskmuseum.ca /research/faqs/es_8.shtml (361 words)

	Fossils of Hunsruck Slate
		This record is extremely biased in many ways but most significantly to the preservation of the hard parts, such as the shells, bones and teeth, of animals.
		A palaeontologist’s "goldmine" is an exceptionally preserved biota (fossil conservation-lagerstätten) where articulated skeletons and/or the soft parts of organisms have miraculously, by one means or another, survived to become part of the fossil record.
		As a palaeontologist working on exceptionally preserved biotas I am grateful that so much dispersed literature has been compiled along with handsome photographs in one book.
	palaeo-electronica.org /1999_2/books/hunsruck.htm (767 words)

	Climate blamed for mass extinctions - earth - 03 April 2006 - New Scientist
		A palaeontologist claims climate change rather than asteroid impacts caused most mass extinctions - and the same could be happening today
		That's the controversial view of one palaeontologist, who says it could mean we are in the midst of a mass extinction now.
		Other palaeontologists disagree, and the dispute is turning into a full-scale academic brawl.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg19025453.700-climate-blamed-for-mass-extinctions.html (299 words)

	The Mother Of The Nation
		His appointment was facilitated by Jan Hofmeyr (Minister of Internal Affairs, Public Health and Education) and Jan Smuts because they were convinced that it would be better if Broom could spend his remaining years in the service of science rather than to eke out an existence as country doctor in Makwassie.
		The travertine, flowstone, stalactites, stalagmites and sometimes even the fossiliferous breccia were crushed and burned in the kilns to produce lime.
		However, not a single geologist or palaeontologist from the Geological Survey in Pretoria, the Departments of Geology and Mining at WITS University or the Johannesburg Technical College visited the site between then and 1935, while fossils were destroyed in their thousands in the lime kilns.
	sasap.freeservers.com /australopethicus/mother_of_the_nation.html (2971 words)

	Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north
		Hans Larsson, a McGill University palaeontologist (located in Montreal, Canada), has found physical proof that Canada's Arctic regions once had a Jurassic era.
		His main pursuit is to track the evolution of one species and their development.
		In Niger alone, his explorations with University of Chicago palaeontologist Paul Sereno led to the discovery of eight unknown dinosaur species and five new crocodile species.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/mu-amn101404.php (312 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		Imagine a dinosaur nesting ground with literally hundreds of eggs, some with perfectly preserved embryos, and you get a glimpse of what nirvana looks like to a dinosaur expert.
		For Luis Chiappe, a palaeontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, nirvana is located in a remote part of the Patagonian badlands of Argentina.
		The first dinosaur embryos to show fossilised skin, the first known embryos of the giant, plant-eating dinosaurs called sauropods and, if that weren't enough, the first dinosaur embryos ever found in the southern hemisphere.
	www.exn.ca /dinosaurs/story.asp?id=1998111757&name=archives (621 words)

	Project Prosauropod: Discover a Dinosaur with us. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I always wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I don't think I can, because I'm scared of heights, and I'm sort of scared of bugs.
		But you work as a palaeontologist in areas where there aren't many bugs, like where the climate is very cold, or where there aren't many bugs that could hurt you.
		It is important to remember that most of a palaeontologist's work is done inside.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /fgm/lab/prosauropod68.htm (804 words)

	Introduction to Was Darwin Wrong?
		An example of a palaeontologist who accepts evolution, but rejects the claim that palaeontology can determine missing links with certainty, is: Henry Gee.
		Palaeontologist Niles Eldredge argues against the reductionism of the 'ultra-Darwinist'.
		Palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould is known by the public from his column in Natural History and the New York Review of Books and as a defender of evolution (that includes rejection of creationism).
	home.wxs.nl /~gkorthof/korthof.htm (10526 words)

	palaeontologist
		Palaeontology is the study of ancient animal and environment records.
		The vary in salaries is due to some palaeontologists working on contracts and some of them working for big museums.
		Things you may need to know as a Palaeontologist
	earthsci.org /education/careers/pala.html (345 words)

	Hobbit? What Hobbit? Indonesian Palaeontologist Refuses To Hand Over Remains Of Newly Found Species
		The remains of an extinct metre-high human species have become virtually as hidden as they were before their discovery last year rocked the world of palaeontology.
		One of Indonesia's leading palaeontologists is refusing to hand back the remains to the team that found them on the Indonesian island of Flores.
		As reported last year, Professor Teuku Jacob, of Gadjah Mada University, grabbed the remains of the seven creatures - dubbed "hobbits" - and locked them in his safe, refusing to let other scientists study them.
	www.rense.com /general62/hob.htm (498 words)

	National Museums of Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eleven years later, his wife and fellow palaeontologist, Mary Leakey, noted several more habitation sites, including a stone walled fort and a group of pits.
		Mary Leakey began excavating the site in mid 1937 and her work produced evidence of an Iron Age stone walled enclosure and a Neolithic burial mound occupation level.
		It is now one of the regional museums of the NMK, with displays of ethnographic material of the different Rift Valley peoples; Neolithic cultures in the area are represented by excavated materials from the Hyrax Hill sites, and include various types of obsidian tools and a stone platter recovered from a burial site.
	www.museums.or.ke /reghyra.html (224 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - Share Your History
		To answer these urgent questions, Woodside decided to send their palaeontologist Marjorie Apthorpe and production geologist Judy Garstone out to the drill ship on the North West Shelf.
		We had 18 hours notice to assemble essential equipment (microscope and accessories, steel capped boots, overalls and so on) and present ourselves early in the morning at Perth airport to fly north.
		Women quickly became accepted as part of the team of geologists, reservoir engineers, palaeontologists (usually palynologists) and others who now regularly travel to offshore rigs to work.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /write_a_history_promotion (20429 words)

	Droughts wiped out megafauna, palaeontologist says
		A group of researchers says a series of massive droughts 40,000 years ago wiped out Australia's megafauna, not over-hunting as was previously thought.
		Palaeontologist Dr Gilbert Price has dug up the fossils of giant kangaroos, emus and wombats the size of cars in south-east Queensland.
		He says the remains show the populations were under stress because of dry conditions when they became extinct.
	www.abc.net.au /news/items/200611/1798899.htm?queensland (172 words)

	Animal Fossils - Crystalinks
		"Until the discovery in the Chengjiang, this type of preservation was thought to be very rare," said U.K. palaeontologist Dr Sarah Gabbott of the University of Leicester.
		More enigmatic, and revealing even finer detail than pyrite fossils, were the 3D phosphate fossils of arthropod embryos from the Early Cambrian, found on the Yangtze platform of China.
		German palaeontologist Dr Michael Steiner, of the Technische Universität Berlin, co-authored a paper on these in the same issue of Geology.
	www.crystalinks.com /animalfossils.html (435 words)

	150,000 yrs old archaeological site found in KwaZulu-Natal national park.
		These were sent to Professor Raymond Dart, the renowned Wits University palaeontologist, who realised their antiquity.
		The latest investigation was led by South African archaeologist Peter Beaumont, and produced the largely complete skeleton of a four to six-month old infant buried in a shallow grave.
		KwaZulu-Natal Saziland Lebombo mountains Neanderthals Border Cave, Professor Raymond Dart, Wits University, palaeontologist antiquity excavations South Africa archaelologists, activeDesign Peter Beaumont, skeleton grave, homo sapiens, homosapiens, Dingaan Zulus study researchers sub-Sahara stone age extinct species AMAFA cultural heritage authority, accommodation safari lodge tourists visitors.
	www.africaelephants.com /archaeology.htm (624 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| coolscience The oldest custom...
		Cleaning your teeth may be the oldest human habit, according to a palaeontologist whose experiments suggest early Man used grass stalks as tooth picks.
		The answer may have been found by palaeontologist Leslea Hlusko of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the British weekly New Scientist reports.
		Hlusko spent eight hours grinding a piece of grass along a tooth taken from a baboon, and replicated the experiment for thee hours on a modern human tooth.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /science/283754.htm (238 words)

	IOL: Palaeontologist finds dinosaur bone in drawer
		Paris - The existence of a giant dinosaur in the greater Paris area 135-million years ago has been proven by the discovery of a bone - in the drawer of a regional museum, the Bulletin of the Geological Society of France reported in its December issue.
		The bone, or rather the natural cast of its internal cavity, was identified by palaeontologist Eric Buffetaut as the humerus, or upper arm bone, of a giant Pterosaur from the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, which ran from 65-million to 144-million years ago.
		The bone, which originally was about 37cm long, belonged to the largest Pterosaur discovered to date, with a wingspan of about 7.4m.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1101482101434B216 (320 words)

	Synonyms of leakey — Infoplease.com
		Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey, paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist
		Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey, paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist
		Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist, anthropologist
	www.infoplease.com /thesaurus/leakey (117 words)

	A tribute to a great scientist: Stephen Jay Gould
		Sadly, on Monday, May 20, Stephen Jay Gould the famous American palaeontologist died of cancer.
		Eldredge and I were fascinated to learn that many Russian palaeontologists support a model similar to our punctuated equilibria."
		Gould was not prepared to go all the way and accept that dialectics can be applied not only to science, and palaeontology in particular, but to society itself.
	www.marxist.com /stephen-jay-gould-tribute230502.htm (1289 words)

	Droughts wiped out megafauna, palaeontologist says
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		Just to let you know, I have some Australian Megafauna fossils I’d be happy to trade or sell to those with interest in the area.
	www.aussieblogger.com /droughts-wiped-out-megafauna-palaeontologist-says (258 words)

	Dreams: I used to want to be a palaeontologist.
		Dreams: I used to want to be a palaeontologist.
		I dreamt last night that I was in a car with a friend of mine from grade eight.
		Light suddenly blasted through the spaces around the door, and then the phone woke me up.
	www.geocities.com /mysterycouch/12June2005.html (477 words)

	First palaeontologist on stamp
		Romania issued a set, celebrating Romanian scientists in 1967.
		The 40 bani value shows a portrait of palaeontologist G. Antipa and, in the background, a Deinotherium skeleton.
		There are still very few palaeontologists that have been honoured with a stamp.
	home.hetnet.nl /~tonveijd/code/firstpal.html (40 words)

	Beginnings 8
		Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils.
		As a palaeontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record.
		You say that I should as least "show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived." I will lay it on the line - there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument."
	www.tlogical.net /beginnings8.htm (842 words)

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