paleontologist

• And it was a paleontologist, the late Louis Leakey, who actually set me on the path for studying chimpanzees. —  Jane Goodall helps humans and animals live together
• The King beckoned to the paleontologist, who came closer. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• It features a simulated bone bed where you can dress like a paleontologist and chip away at fossils, or view smaller specimens through a microscope. —  Omni: Fall 1995
• I am glad to know that my two decades of training as a biologist and paleontologist was wasted when I could have just spent a few weeks reading reviews and be more knowledgeable. —  AnalogSFF,May2006
• The parade of dinosaurs is led by an on-stage "paleontologist," Huxley, who walks among the dinosaurs and explains what the audience is watching, while describing changes in the earth's history, through different prehistoric eras.

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