paleobiology
noun
pa·leo·bi·ol·o·gy
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Definition of paleobiology
: a branch of paleontology concerned with the biology of fossil organisms
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Other Words from paleobiology
paleobiological
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or less commonly paleobiologic \ ˌpā-lē-ō-bī-ə-ˈlä-jik
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or less commonly paleobiologic \ ˌpā-lē-ō-bī-ə-ˈlä-jik
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paleobiologist
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Examples of paleobiology in a Sentence
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Markus Bastir, a researcher with the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales' department of paleobiology in Madrid, wrote an article to pair with the study, outlining possible concerns with the research as well as highlighting some of its strengths. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "This could be why our eyebrows evolved," 9 Apr. 2018 The analytical, data-driven paleobiology pioneered by my father has now become a cottage industry. — David Sepkoski, The Atlantic, "19th-Century Paleontology Was at the Forefront of Big Data," 14 Feb. 2018 But modern paleobiology succeeded where Bronn and others failed, for two reasons. — David Sepkoski, The Atlantic, "19th-Century Paleontology Was at the Forefront of Big Data," 14 Feb. 2018 In many scientific fields, from genetics to economics to paleobiology, a kind of implicit trust is placed in the images and the algorithms that produce them. — David Sepkoski, The Atlantic, "19th-Century Paleontology Was at the Forefront of Big Data," 14 Feb. 2018 The analytical, data-driven paleobiology pioneered by my father has now become a cottage industry. — David Sepkoski, The Atlantic, "19th-Century Paleontology Was at the Forefront of Big Data," 14 Feb. 2018 Markus Bastir, a researcher with the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales' department of paleobiology in Madrid, wrote an article to pair with the study, outlining possible concerns with the research as well as highlighting some of its strengths. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "This could be why our eyebrows evolved," 9 Apr. 2018 Jack Sauce, Lakewood, Ohio Of the 41 million fossil items in the museum’s paleobiology collection, every one was examined as it was sorted into one of 10,000 cases. — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian, "Why Do So Many Train Stations Have the Same Name?," 27 Oct. 2017 Siver didn't hear about the kimberlite core until 2005, when Alex Wolfe, a paleobiology professor at the University of Alberta, approached him at a conference in Florida. — Matt Ormseth, courant.com, "Conn College Professor Wins New Grant To Study Mystery Of Canada’s Prehistoric Tropical Climate," 3 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'paleobiology.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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