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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...
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- Smithsonian's Paleobiology website
- University of California Museum of Paleontology
- The Paleontological Society
- The Palaeontological Association
- The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
- The Paleontology Portal
- "Geology, Paleontology & Theories of the Earth" – a collection of more than 100 digitised landmark and early books on Earth sciences at the Linda Hall Library
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Crazy that something so huge must have been quick enough to hunt.
It’s the ocean, size isn’t as limiting.
They show a pretty cool theory how the mosasaur might have done it in prehistoric planet.
Leopard seals, sharks, orcas are all huge and hunt prey?
The fact that the cliff face that it was recovered from is eroding at a fast rate really helps in a way, but can also hinder, the team collecting the fossil in recovering the rest of the skeleton, presuming it's still there. Really excited to see what's left of it. What a terror of the sea.