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研究地质历史时期生物的科学。以化石为研究对象，探索生物的起源和进化、古生物的形态、构造、分类、生态和分布等规律。

• "If Archaeopteryx were discovered today, I don't think you would call it a bird. You would call it a feathered dinosaur, " says Carrano.

  “如果始祖鸟是在今天发现的，我觉得古生物学家们肯定不会说它是鸟类，其实它就是一种带羽毛的恐龙，”卡里诺说。

• feeling Paleontology is much like politics: passions run high, and it's easy to draw very different conclusions from the same set of facts.

  古生物学和政治很相像：情绪很激昂，而且从同一组事实中可以得出截然不同的结论。

• Paleontologists have only a pair of lower jaw fragments to go on, the larger of which (pictured above) is almost 11 inches long.

  人们对于这种生物知之甚少，古生物学家只能靠两块下颌片段进行研究，其中较大的一块（见上图）大约为11英寸长。

• For quite some time Cambrian remained just a scientific term concerned only by evolutionism scholars and paleontologists.

  长期以来寒武纪仅仅是演化论学者和古生物学家所关心的科学名词。

• Within a few months of her arrival, Goodall met the famed anthropologist and paleontologist Louis Leakey.

  在她到达后没几个月，古道尔就见到了著名的人类学家、古生物学家路易斯·利奇。

• Paleontological evidence shows that the animals have been living on Yellowstone land for at least a thousand years.

  古生物学证明显示这种动物在黄石公园已经生活了至少一千年。

• Paleontologists have known for decades about the beginnings and endings of a group of dinosaurs known as the Sauropodomorpha.

  对于一种叫萨尔塔龙的恐龙，古生物学家早就了解它从起源到灭绝的一些事。

• Mama, but I also want to be a paleontologist, because that's what Nate is going to be and I want to do everything Nate does.

  妈妈，但我也想当一名古生物学家，因为内特想当，而内特想做的所有事情我都想做。

• I hope that this anniversary will result in a new impetus for field-based biology and palaeontology to answer such questions.

  我希望这一次的周年纪念将为野外生物学和古生物学造成新的推动力来回答这样的问题。