In this way , it removed the last scientific objection to what many geologists and paleontologists thought was the great age of the earth and the sun 这样，就清除了许多地质学家和古生物学家认为地球和太阳存在了很长年代的最后一个科学上的异议。
Paleontologists had generally assumed that because dinosaurs were reptiles , they probably grew much as reptiles do today ? that is , rather slowly 古生物学家通常假定，因为恐龙是爬行类， ?们可能与现存爬行类的生长状况类似，也就是生长速率很缓慢。
Paleontological studies showed that modern avian groups probably first appeared in the paleocene and experienced an explosive radiation in the early cenozoic 古生物学研究表明，现生鸟类的最早出现是在古新世，而爆发性辐射演化发生在新生代早期。
Some of its conical teeth , vertebrae , and foot - long armor plates , or scutes , were first discovered by french paleontologist albert - felix de lapparent 他们的一些锥形牙齿、脊椎、长达一英尺的鳞甲首先被法国古生物学家阿尔贝弗利克斯?德拉帕朗发现。
The morphological characters as well as biological and paleontological findings were employed for analysis of systematic relationship in early times 早期对壁虎类系统发生关系的研究主要以形态学性状为依据，同时结合生物学特征及古生物学方面的发现。
The maxakalisaurus topai was 13 meters long and weighed about nine tons . it had a large body , long tail and neck with a relatively small head 通过一些出土的化石碎片，巴西古生物学家发现了一种全新的恐龙种类，这种大型的食草动物生活在大约8000万年之前。
They noticed that the toes of both feathered dinosaurs and of the earliest flying birds were similar to those of modern birds that spend most of their time on the ground 但是古生物学家格棱博士与生物力学家班尼特博士认为，他们已经想出了如何找出答案。
Participants will also engage in mapping , lab work , skeletal anatomy studies and many other aspects of paleontology , geology and archaeology 除此之外，这些参与者还能尝试绘图实验室工作骨骼解剖研究以及有关古生物学地质学和考古学其它很多方面的研究。
Like a paleontologist , able to reconstruct an entire skeleton from one fossil bone , he was able to reconstruct a whole speech from the one word revolution 他从革命这一个词就可以虚构出整个的发言，就像古生物学家靠一块骨骼化石就可以建造出一副完整的骨架一样。
" it s always possible that something new or a better representation of something rare will show up in these sites , " said russell mccarty , a senior museum paleontologist 该博物馆的高级古生物学家拉塞尔麦克卡提对此表示，这种地点常常会有新的或更有价值的发现。
