Paleontologist Chapter Summaries

When I was six years old my mother asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I told her with a straight face “a paleontologist” at that age I knew how to spell and pronounce all the scientific names for almost every known species of dinosaur at the time and I also knew their feeding habits, habitats, period they inhabited. Fast Forward five years later my career goal had changed to a herpetologist, I envisioned myself treating amphibians and reptiles while performing zoonotic as well as conservative research. From an early age I was fascinated with animals and knew I wanted my future occupation to be involved with them but it wasn’t until I was a sophomore in high school that I was introduced to the possibility of veterinary medicine.

The main point of this article is to talk about the findings of the 59th Unnamed Cave in Florida. This cave is interesting because there are very few sites in Florida. This was only one out of the two sites that had rock art in them that is in the state of Florida. I really like this article because instead of just talking about what they see in the petroglyph, the authors actually highlighted the engravings so that it is easier for the readers to see what they are talking about. The other articles I have read only talked about the engraving but they did not really highlighted the engraving which makes it very hard for the reader to see what they were talking about. Another good point of this article is that they showed a comparison between the older cave engraving versus the new engraving. By adding this information it help the reader understand the difference between the two time frame that the engraving was marked. One of the things that I wished this article would have is the radio carbon dating section. The other articles I read about all have some type of radio carbon dating to try to date when the site were occupied. This article only talked about the ceramic sherds that they

Paleofantasy, written by Marlene Zuk, aims to address the claims of those paleo fantasyers. These paleo fantasyers believe that the human body is ill-equipped for the modern era and claim that we should be trying to live and eat like our ancestors thousands of years ago. Marlene Zuk addresses their claims by presenting scientific evidence and examples how evolution has dramatically changed the human body to suit the modern era. While there are many aspects Paleofantasy addresses, due to page restrictions I will choose three aspects to address in this paper in chronological order as they appear in the book.

When he tried to interpret the ambient sounds, all he could hear was the drip, drip, drip pounding on his skull. He could feel the water boring into his skull, and now understood how this incessant type of action could wear down a rock, carve out vast canyons from the earth, and make you feel like you had to take a

The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (K-Pg boundary) was host to one of the three largest mass extinctions in the past 500 million years. Evidence suggests it was the result of a large asteroid impact approximately 65.5 million years ago in Chicxulub, Mexico; hence why the crater it formed was named the Chicxulub crater. The crater was approximately 180 kilometres in diameter and was believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs amongst many other life forms including marine plankton (calcareous nannofossils and planktonic foraminifera) (Schulte et al., 2010). Furthermore, it had a number of impacts on the atmosphere and environment including the creation of sulfuric acid rain and stratospheric dust cloud formations.

Primatology gives us a look into how our human nature works with social, violent, and peaceful situations. For years, it has always been that we are not similar to primates, and are the only species with beyond unique characteristics. Recently, studies have shown otherwise, while different species of primates are advancing and becoming closer to us than we’d like to think. Even with how violent our human tendencies can get, we still maintain a good balance of peace in our world. Going back to what we previously talked about in class, cooperation is not just about maintaining peace but about a more efficient way to exterminate dangers outside of the group. Along with cooperation comes the way we resolve conflicts to maintain peace with those

Science itself is a wide field of research and career opportunities. In it, many areas of research are available for one to choose from. Paleontology is but one of these options, and it encompasses even more divisions of study. It has numerous subdivisions: micropaleontology, paleobotany, paleoecology, the list goes on. All of the divisions cover things that once were, and track how things changed over time to become what they are today, hence the suffix of “paleo”, which means “old” or ancient”.

First, the fossil record is observable evidence. Second, there are properties of evolution that can be observed in our lifetime such as the development of insecticide resistant insects. Third, the dramatic change of “kinds” this guy is looking for would disprove the theory because evolution is a processes of change not a sudden occurrence. This video comes from this guys sad misunderstanding of his subject matter.

The third career i chose was a paleontologist. “A paleontologist is a scientist who studies the fossilized remains of all kinds of organisms.”Paleontologist don’t just look for or at fossils but they compare them to live on earth in this present day, and try to find the history behind it all. Paleontologist look for ways to find out how exactly did we descended from fishes and

As, the director, of the natural history museum I have created a display dedicated to the Paleozoic time period. In order to boost the attendance, I have designed an interactive set of exhibits and displays for the Paleozoic Era. Guest will enter the museum together in a main room once everyone was seated you would turn down the lights and with a 3 - D show the beginning of the era which was the breakup of one supercontinent and the formation of another. A speaker will explain how the Paleozoic Era was from about 542 million years ago to 251 million years ago, and was a time of great change. That as things began to change plants became widespread, and the first vertebrate animals colonized the lands. It would then show how the supercontinent divided and briefly cover each time period within the Paleozoic Era. Until the show ended with showing the ice age extinction. This will give them the background necessary for each room after which has displays for each period within the Paleozoic era. There would be

The topic I chose to study was the understanding of fossils. When we understand fossils, we can understand how the world was before we came. The world is always changing. It used to be one big continent. Using fossils, we can tell where things lived and how the land was. An article on Science Direct tells about how they used fossils on the North Atlantic region test paleogeography. Because they understood fossils, they were able to test and prove ideas. The discoveries of different fossils help with other discoveries. When we understand fossils, we can use them to help understand other things. From the example earlier, that shows how fossils also aid in helping with other discoveries. Since scientist understood fossils

Fossils are physical evidence of preexisting organisms, either plant or animal. The most common and obvious fossils are the preserved skeletal remains of animals. Other fossils, which are also evidence of past organisms, include leaf impressions, tracks and trails, burrows, droppings, and root casts. Microfossils are the microscopic skeletons of previously existing plants or animals, and their examination requires an optical or an electron microscope for close study. A very small fraction of the organisms that have lived on the Earth is found in the fossil record: Many did not possess skeletons or other hard parts that could be preserved; many did not survive the process of fossilization, wherein skeletons and tissues are replaced by minerals;

Research article: Antarctic Zone (AZ) nutrient conditions during the last two glacial cycles; Paleoceanography 2015.

Paleoanthropology studies bone and stone remains of ancient ancestors. In another word, people who work as paleoanthropology studies the lives of humans that lived before us.The evidence they use are petrified bones, footprints, stones and other biological matter. The purpose of paleoanthropology was to help us to know where and how the evolutionary process of humans started, leading up to present day. Paleoanthropology is also important because it help/show why does humans behave or die a certain way. Some sciences that contribute data to paleoanthropologists are Geology, archeology, and paleontology. Around the year 1974, Donald Johanson discovered/ found a skeleton in Ethiopia that was 40% complete. The skeleton was from the Australopithecus

For my research project, I did it on the archaeopteryx and the dodo bird. The archaeopteryx, also known as the "ancient wing". It comes from the 2 Greek words archaīos, meaning "ancient," and ptéryx, meaning "wing." The Dodo bird or the "flightless bird" is another example of an extinct species that is included in this paper.