What is another word for palaeontology?

Pronunciation: [pˌaliːəntˈɒləd͡ʒi] (IPA)

Palaeontology, the study of fossils, has several synonyms that may be used interchangeably depending on the context. The most commonly used synonym is 'paleozoology,' which also pertains to the study of prehistoric life. Other synonyms include 'dinosaur paleontology,' 'paleobiology,' and 'paleontography.' These terms give researchers a wider scope of study that covers the entirety of the field, including evolution, biogeography, and taxonomy. Paleontologists use a variety of tools, including geologic maps, microscopes, and x-ray machines to study fossils and contribute to our understanding of the history of life on earth. These synonyms help to underscore the vast and complex nature of this fascinating topic.

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Usage examples for Palaeontology

"Few of our handbooks of popular science can be said to have greater or more decisive merit than those of Mr Page on Geology and palaeontology.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
Besides these important advances in medicine made by him, and his great discovery of the identity of cowpox and smallpox, Dr. Jenner was an interesting observer of phenomena in all the biological sciences, and in geology and palaeontology.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
So far as they are guided by palaeontology, they arrive at this result by an independent course of reasoning; but they have been conducted partly to the same goal as the ancients by ethnological considerations common to both, or by reflecting in what darkness the infancy of every nation is enveloped and that true history and chronology are the creation, as it were, of yesterday.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell

Famous quotes with Palaeontology

  • Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
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  • If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.
    John G. D. Clark
  • I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
    Penelope Lively

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