Conodonts have been known for almost as long as there has been paleontology, but their peculiar dentition was all that was known of the group. |
Although paleontology plays a large role in the novel, Swanwick seems to be more concerned with cause-and-effect, paradoxes, and predeterminism. |
Not only is phylogeny important for understanding paleontology, but paleontology in turn contributes to phylogeny. |
It could become a much more attractive advertisement for paleontology and for the Society. |
Over the last 25 years, few topics in systematics and paleontology have been as divisively debated as the origin of birds. |
However, paleontology as a whole encompasses all life, from bacteria to whales. |