"if it is, that would be pretty rare, " said university of washington paleontologist bax barton 美国华盛顿大学的古生物学家拜克斯巴顿也对此表示：“如果事情确实如此，那它就非常珍稀了。”
This realization provided a big incentive for paleontologists to get out in the field and find fossils older than the cambrian 这项体认刺激了古生物学家走入田野，寻找比寒武纪更古老的化石。
There were no signs that it was preyed on, " local media reported geologist and paleontologist bernardo gonzalez riga as saying 好像这只泰坦龙当时是摔倒或者倒下了，并且就这样被保存了下来。
Such questions have driven other paleontologists to fossil-rich locales in south africa, brazil, antarctica and india 许多古生物学家都对这个问题感兴趣，因此他们到南非、巴西、南极洲、印度搜寻化石丰富的地区。
"these are extremely rare, " said philip donoghue, a paleontologist at britain's university of bristol . " studying them is a problem . “它们太小了，研究它们很成问题。”巴西布列颠大学的古生物学家菲利浦?多纳说到。
While geologists were searching for craters and other impact tracers, paleontologists were adding their own momentum to the impact scenario 地质学家在搜寻陨石坑与其他的撞击遗迹时，古生物学者也提出了证据，使陨石撞击说更具说服力。
A convincing counterargument came from paleontologists philip signor of the university of california at davis and jere lipps, now at berkeley 美国加州大学戴维斯分校的席格诺与现于柏克莱分校的李普斯，提出过一个可信的论证来反驳陨石说。
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。
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。
