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古代动物和古代植物的统称。古代生物的遗体有少数变成化石保存下来，如三叶虫、恐龙、猛犸等。

1. 指生存于地球历史的地质年代中而现已大部绝灭的生物。包括古植物、古无脊椎动物、古脊椎动物等。古代生物的遗体除极少数由于特殊条件，仍保存原有组织结构(如冻土中的猛犸、琥珀中的昆虫)外，大多数变成化石保存下来，如三叶虫、恐龙等。

• "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。

• By the end of three years, scientists realised they'd found a paleontological treasure.

  研究到最后三年，科学家们意识她在古生物进化学研究上具有重大的意义。

• 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。