become paleontologist

Because Pachycephalosaurus was named first, the first two become junior synonyms. It's a shame, because they're such cool names! As for duckbilled dinosaurs, horned dinosaurs, and even modern crested birds like the cassowary, ...Bookmark with (what is social media?) Facebook · Digg · Reddit · Delicious · StumbleUpon. 'dinosaur mad': Sam hoped to one day become a paleontologist. < Previous Next >. More Top Videos. Autumn in Grimsby · Grimsby jobs boost ..."He [Darwin] prophesied that future generations of paleontologists would fill in these gaps by diligent search....It has become abundantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm this part of Darwin's predictions. ...In this way, the beasts of long ago suddenly become more familiar, a little less frightening, and, importantly, more real to the general public. Awareness of not only the structures and behavior of animals of the past, but also of their ...Looking closer, they found that the angled breaks were similar to breaks in fresh bones that have not yet become brittle. Many were also ravaged by thumb-sized insects, Britt said. Though trampled dinosaur bones have been found ...LMAO, I know Rachel doesn't want anyone to call Ross a geek but.........he really is a little bit geeky speaking of how his 3-month son is going to become a paleontologist. Well done Lisa but I hope you already have another one in mind ...It took more than a century for the idea to become widely accepted. Today most paleontologists divide dinosaurs into two groups: avian dinosaurs (birds) and non-avian dinosaurs, the branch that died out at the end of the Cretaceous. ...She now wants to become a Paleontologist to study dinosaur fossils. She loves to read dinosaur books, watch dinosaur shows, play with toy dinosaurs, and sleep with her stuffed dinosaur "bob" the T-Rex. She eats, sleeps, dreams, ...A vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were smashed underfoot by other dinosaurs shortly after they died, according to paleontologists. ... Looking closer, they found that the angled breaks were similar to breaks in fresh bones that have not yet become brittle. Many were also ravaged by thumb-sized insects, Britt said. Though trampled dinosaur bones have been found elsewhere, Scheetz said the site near Moab helps fill in gaps ...He was born and educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, during what has become known as the Scottish Enlightenment. He was a Newtonian in natural philosophy and counted among his friends the chemist Joseph Black, the economist Adam Smith and ...
It was an average fall day and I, no more than seven years old , was walking in the park along side my mother.
“What do you want to be when you grow up honey” she said to me
With glee in my eyes I proudly stated that “ I want to be Barbie”. Little did I realize, however, what I had just said. Perhaps it was at this point that had began an unstoppable chain of events. Barbie was a babysitter, nurse, dentist, paleontologist, air force fighter pilot, just to name a few. If I really did want to be Barbie, I would have to take them all on.
There I was. Sitting on the witnesses stand as the star witness in That Sates of New Justice V. Casey Nefflen. My school had been preparing for the mock trail for months and the fact that I ,as a naïve sophomore had landed a major role made me fidget as I sat there and the questions began. For a moment I was suspended in time. “what if”, I thought “this was all real”. That my husband had just been killed and I had to stand trail”. I looked at my lawyer and saw in him confidence and I place in which I could feel safe. At that moment it hit me. I want to be a lawyer.
“B-4!” I screamed , “B-4!”. It was Saturday night bingo and I was the caller. “BINGO“, yelled one women, whom I new to be Stella LaBruzza. In between her wheezing and coughs she meticulacly called her numbers. I looked at her sad blue eyes and behind them there was something great. But society had deemed her useless, just another elderly women getting a discount on seniors day at shop rite, right? Wrong. It was my goal from then on to help people like Stella. A soul trapped in the body of an elderly women with the heart and mind as strong as any other I knew. I knew what I had to do. I was going to become a doctor.
My friends and I were volunteering at our schools blood drive. Some how we had gotten to the topic of where we wanted to go to school and what we ultimately wanted to-do. Stephanie wanted to be a neurologist ,as she had since I met her in the 6th grade. Jessica wanted to pursue her dreams as an artist , for she had had a painters gifted hand since talented art in grammar school. Then someone asked me. “ What do you want be Amy?”. My eyes sparked with happiness as I knew my exact answer. “ I want to be Barbie” I said, now knowing the full repercussions of my answer.


Hi guys!
I'm a junior in high school in the IB program. I either want to become a Bakery owner, a wedding dress designer or a paleontologist. haha, i know, weird. anyways, i have always been interested in getting a business degree to start a business in whatever i want. I was thinking of going to University of Maryland, but i think both my sisters are going to Virginia Tech, so i was thinking of going there. Is the business school there good? Any advice regarding a career or college would be GREAT! Thanks!
P.S. - any other business school ideas would be great. im also looking into going in the direction of Georgia or Tennessee.


I've looked for majors throughout the country for Paleontology. Is the title "Paleontologist obtained from getting multiple BA or MS in multiple fields of study?
I live in Texas, right outside Houston, and I was planning on going into Paleontology. Do you think that the College would be able to help me pursue this question?


I have been wanting to become a paleontologist. I was wandering how easy it is to become a paleontologist. I was also wanting to know what companies hire paleontologist.


With it's trillion-and-one-year capability (patent pending, so don't even friggin think about it), I've used my time machine to visit the dinosaurs. It's weird, they look exactly the way paleontologists said the would. How did they know?! Anyway. I've spent a lot of time with the dinosaurs. They are very intelligent. I now have them eating out of my hand. But I'm allergic to EVERYTHING edible in their time period, as are my assistants. I'll figure that one out later. What I WANT to do is gather enough resources to live the rest of my life with the dinosaurs. I'm sure that the sales of my time machine will fund this, no problem, but I'm afraid that if I sell it to the public, they can beat me back there, and drive me nuts demanding that I save the dinosaurs. With the technology of our present time, we could easily divert the meteor that did/will spell the end of the dinosaurs, my associates have told me that many times. So... since we have the ability to protect these species, it's a snap that we'll have the RESPONSIBILITY to protect these species. Their death, should it remain a fact, will become our fault, just like the extinction of all the other animals in the 19th and 20th centuries. If I go there, will you all not follow, and instead visit Leonardo DaVinci and Samuel Adams till they are crazy with your pestering? And leave me and the dinosaurs to our own private destinies?
Yes, Terminator and Michael J. Fox have taught me a lot as well. It's the whole parallel universe thing that you're forgetting. Sure, saving dinosaurs will change the entire future or history (depending on where you choose to camp out), but only in one silly little universe, while billions of others will continue to have you existing even if your great great grandfather never gets born since Velociraptors ate his mother early on in the game. You see my dilemma?


I'm 14 and I love dinosaurs. When i was like 6 I saw the movie Jurassic Park and since then I always wanted to dig up a Velociraptor (there my favorite). I was wondering if there is anything I should practice or study (other than dinosaur books) or if there is any good colleges in Ontario canada I could go to to help this career. And I was wondering how much do you get paid.


1. Which of the following is true?
A) Not all organisms will become part of the fossil record.
B) All organisms will leave a fossil.
C) Finding fossils is always easy.

2. The deserts of the southwest were once an ancient sea.
A) True
B) False

3. Most fossils are found in
A) tar pits.
B) ice.
C) sedimentary rock.
D) amber.

4. Which one of the following environmental circumstances causes species to die out?
A) volcanic acitivity
B) Earthquakes
C) climatic changes
D) all of the above

5. Every period, every epoch in Earth's history had a different climate and contained different kinds of oganisms that were adapted to it.
A) True
B) False

6. Changes in the life of Earth is followed by changes in the Earth itself.
A) True
B) False

7. Scientists who study fossils are called
A) biologists
B) chemists
C) geologists
D) paleontologists

8. The fossil record does NOT provide a good evolutionary history of different animal groups.
A) True
B) False

9. Scientists who study fossils are called __________________.

10. Fossils are formed when animals get trapped in sedimentary rock.
A) True
B) False

I'm pretty sure I know #9.. But I want to be sure just in case!


I had a dream last night where I was riding on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It wasn't a big one; thinking back now, but instead a smaller one, either a baby or juvenile, but in the dream it sure felt to me to be an adult. Anyway, I was riding on its back and we stopped in a store full of toys. There wasn't really anyone around that I could remember, and I slid off his back, showing him some little plastic toys. A couple were lizards, and even some were miniatures of him. He was very happy; it was strange, me trying to impress this dinosaur. He rubbed his nose against my face, as if thanking me, and then walked away. I wasn't very sad, but then I was alone.

A little background information about me that might help interpretation; I've just started college, and I am, for now, planning to become a paleontologist. I've always had a connection with dinosaurs, even when I was little. I would have this recurring dream about a T-Rex coming to get me, and I would drop to the ground in fright, right before waking up. I wondered why I would always fall back, but I was too young to know that I was fainting! I've always had many dreams about dinosaurs, generally concerning Tyrannosaurs and always hiding from them in fright. This was the first time I can remember ever treating one, in a way, as a pet.

Thank you so much for any interpretation you can give!


And what does their career entail?
Tanks


i would like to be one but im not sure on the qualifications i need . I already take history ,geography and media. all answers are appreciated but i would prefer it if you didn't copy and paste pages and pages off of websites. Thanks


Ideas:

Archeologist

Paleontologist

Marine Biologist

Artist

Tattoo Artist

Writer

Photographer

Journalist

Graphic Designer

Diver

Singer

Musician

Vet

I have no idea what I want to be, I love history and I think it would be really cool to dig up stuff. But what major is that?
and I love to draw, I am good at drawing and writing.
I play the violin and I love to sing so that why I want to be a singer or musician and I could travel the world if i become that.
I am really good with computers.
I love animals..and I love photography..


what jobs are more in demand right now or might be in a couple years, and what is a high paying job?
I know what archeology is lol


Or at least manage a small business while having a career as a paleontologist? Because my dream is to become a paleontologist (And an even bigger one is to be the 1st paleontologist on mars, but that is for a different question) However, paleontologists don't bring in too much money, and I always wanted to open up a reptilian pet store...


Can you be home schooled or take school online for k-12 and still become a doctor, zoologist or paleontologist?


1. Stated by Boyce Rensberger, "The popularly told example of horse evolution, suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed, fox-sized creatures, living nearly 50 million years ago, to today's much larger one toed horse, has long been known to be wrong. Instead of gradual change, fossils of each intermediate species appear fully distinct, persist unchanged, and then become extinct. Transitional forms are unknown.

Boyce Rensberger, "Ideas on Evolution Going Through a Revolution Among Scientists," Houston Chronicle, November 5, 1980, sec. 4, p. 15

and...

2. As stated by Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, "The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils...All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt."

Stephen Gould, The Panda's Thumb (New York: W.W. Norton, 1980), p.253
I took nothing out of context, and this is what they said, it doesn't get anymore cut and dry than this. And if you think i need enlightening then go ahead and enlighten me, show me how i've taken them out of context, i dare ya!





I'm 16 and I'm about to start college/sixth form in September, I am still able to pick my courses. I do well in science and geography if that makes any difference. I've always enjoyed learning about evolution, the history of man and dinosaurs. I just want to know what things I should study in 6th Form and eventually university, what grades I will need and how to generally go about it.


I love Indiana Jones. I grew up playing paleontologist and spent my summer days burying things in the yard and digging them up again. How can I become a modern day explorer. Is there a college degree for paleontology or archeology? If so where?


1. Archaeologist
2. Astronomer
3. Geographer
4. Historian
5. Paleontologist
And other such careers.
I am in Singapore, and I would like to know what subjects should be taken in school. This includes subjects in Secondary School (Sec 3), Poly or J.C and University. And if studying College overseas, what school to go to and then what to take.


BioEssays Article Admits “Materialistic Basis of the Cambrian Explosion” is “Elusive”
A recent paper in BioEssays, "MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion," admits the lack of a "materialistic basis" -- that is, a plausible materialistic explanation -- of the Cambrian explosion. As the article states:

Thus, elucidating the materialistic basis of the Cambrian explosion has become more elusive, not less, the more we know about the event itself, and cannot be explained away by coupling extinction of intermediates with long stretches of geologic time, despite the contrary claims of some modern neo-Darwinists.

(Kevin J. Peterson, Michael R. Dietrich and Mark A. McPeek, "MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion," BioEssays, Vol. 31 (7):736 - 747 (2009).)

The authors give no indication that they themselves support intelligent design (ID), and it seems they are still hopeful for a “materialistic” explanation for the Cambrian explosion, but they nonetheless give a witty nod to some observations and arguments made by ID proponents:

Beginning some 555 million years ago the Earth’s biota changed in profound and fundamental ways, going from an essentially static system billions of years in existence to the one we find today, a dynamic and awesomely complex system whose origin seems to defy explanation. Part of the intrigue with the Cambrian explosion is that numerous animal phyla with very distinct body plans arrive on the scene in a geological blink of the eye, with little or no warning of what is to come in rocks that predate this interval of time. The abruptness of the transition between the ‘‘Precambrian’’ and the Cambrian was apparent right at the outset of our science with the publication of Murchison’s The Silurian System, a treatise that paradoxically set forth the research agenda for numerous paleontologists -- in addition to serving as perennial fodder for creationists. The reasoning is simple -- as explained on an intelligent-design t-shirt.
Fact: Forty phyla of complex animals suddenly appear in the fossil record, no forerunners, no transitional forms leading to them; ‘‘a major mystery,’’ a ‘‘challenge.’’ The Theory of Evolution – exploded again (idofcourse.com).
Although we would dispute the numbers, and aside from the last line, there is not much here that we would disagree with. Indeed, many of Darwin’s contemporaries shared these sentiments, and we assume -- if Victorian fashion dictated -- that they would have worn this same t-shirt with pride.
(Kevin J. Peterson, Michael R. Dietrich and Mark A. McPeek, "MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion," BioEssays, Vol. 31 (7):736 - 747 (2009), internal citation numbers removed, emboldened emphasis added.)

While their article then directly goes on to admit the “elusive” state of any “materialistic basis” of the Cambrian explosion, it doesn’t really offer any explanation for the Cambrian explosion other than a vague mention of the open niche hypothesis and adaptive radiation. The rest of the article focuses on explaining the overall loss of phyla and body plans since the Cambrian, rather than the explosive emergence of new body plans in the Cambrian explosion. At some point, however, neo-Darwinism must account for the origin -- an abrupt one at that -- of new body plans, not merely the inability to evolve new ones in post-Cambrian times (what they call the “canalizing” of development). It would seem that after this article, the explanation for the origin of the phyla in the Cambrian explosion is no less “elusive” than before it.
I am amazed that people would rather accept a convoluted theory, than question and examine what it actually says.


BioEssays Article Admits “Materialistic Basis of the Cambrian Explosion” is “Elusive”
A recent paper in BioEssays, "MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion," admits the lack of a "materialistic basis" -- that is, a plausible materialistic explanation -- of the Cambrian explosion. As the article states:

Thus, elucidating the materialistic basis of the Cambrian explosion has become more elusive, not less, the more we know about the event itself, and cannot be explained away by coupling extinction of intermediates with long stretches of geologic time, despite the contrary claims of some modern neo-Darwinists.

(Kevin J. Peterson, Michael R. Dietrich and Mark A. McPeek, "MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion," BioEssays, Vol. 31 (7):736 - 747 (2009).)

The authors give no indication that they themselves support intelligent design (ID), and it seems they are still hopeful for a “materialistic” explanation for the Cambrian explosion, but they nonetheless give a witty nod to some observations and arguments made by ID proponents:

Beginning some 555 million years ago the Earth’s biota changed in profound and fundamental ways, going from an essentially static system billions of years in existence to the one we find today, a dynamic and awesomely complex system whose origin seems to defy explanation. Part of the intrigue with the Cambrian explosion is that numerous animal phyla with very distinct body plans arrive on the scene in a geological blink of the eye, with little or no warning of what is to come in rocks that predate this interval of time. The abruptness of the transition between the ‘‘Precambrian’’ and the Cambrian was apparent right at the outset of our science with the publication of Murchison’s The Silurian System, a treatise that paradoxically set forth the research agenda for numerous paleontologists -- in addition to serving as perennial fodder for creationists. The reasoning is simple -- as explained on an intelligent-design t-shirt.
Fact: Forty phyla of complex animals suddenly appear in the fossil record, no forerunners, no transitional forms leading to them; ‘‘a major mystery,’’ a ‘‘challenge.’’


im working on a career project and i need to know things about becoming a paleontologist.



heres my question: "what are the best colleges for your field of study? BE SPECIFIC!!!!!"

and also "what is the average cost of an education at these colleges?


* "The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds." -- Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.

* "I am a skeptic ... . Global warming has become a new religion." -- Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

* "Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly ... . As a scientist I remain skeptical." -- Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called "among the most pre-eminent scientists of the last 100 years."

* Warming fears are the "worst scientific scandal in the history ... . When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." -- U.N. IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning Ph.D. environmental physical chemist.

* "The models and forecasts of the U.N. IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity." -- Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

* "It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming." -- U.S. Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

* "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" -- Geologist Dr. David Gee, the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer-reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

* "Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp ... . Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact." -- Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch U.N. IPCC committee.

* "Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined." -- Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.

* "Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense ... . The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning." -- Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

* "CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another ... . Every scientist knows this, but it doesn't pay to say so ... . Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver's seat and developing nations walking barefoot." -- Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.





While excavating my pond several years ago in Texas I uncovered a dinosaur bone. I'm a rockhound by nature and knew the great significance of my find right away. The bone consists of three segments of vertebra with finger-size divisions between them. The bone is about four inches by 1.5 inches and weighs 278-grams.

What amount would a university, museum or collector pay to become the proud owner of this dinosaur bone? I've heard numbers in the several thousand range.

Any collectors or paleontologists out there looking for a truly grand specimen to make their collection shine?
To Mr. Jong Shung:

I was indeed giving some consideration to the idea of placing the bone up for public auction on Ebay. If I do so, it will probably be a week or so from now.
To Ms. Tangarin:

You are of course, correct. I have not had the bone authenticated by an expert. This is more difficult and less practical than you'd imagine. I must first endeavor to find such a person locally, then set up an appointment and bring the bone in person to allow him/her to ascertain its authenticity.

I don't want to leave it with someone who would "accidentally" misplace it or replace it with a similar but worthless specimen.

But yes, a writ declaring the bone as genuine would be quite beneficial.
To Mr. Jong Shung:

If I can get an expert to authenticate the fossil as a genuine dinosaur fossil and get it in writing as such would you be capable of shucking out a few grand for it on eBay? The persons or the institution that examines it will probably want the first opportunity to acquire it but.... I will ultimately go with the highest bidder. My momma raised no fool, as they say.


i want to be a criminal investigator or a paleontologist.
what do you think i should ask myself if i wanted to know which one i would like better?
what do you need to do to become a criminal investigator or paleontologist and what classes?
im in 9th grade. so yeah i have time . :) ask any questions and i will update. thx
did not know what category to put in so it wouldnt get ignored :/
shoot.. maybe a marine biologist.. ugh theres so much.


1. Structures that appear to have reduced in size because they no longer serve an important function are called __________.

A. inorganic
B. mutated
C. fossilized
D. vestigial

2. The system for giving each species a two-part name was invented by ___________.

A. Mendel
B. Darwin
C. Linnaeus
D. Lamarck

3. As the biological hierarchy is moved through from the kingdom level down to the species level, organisms __________.

A. vary more and more
B. become less and less related to each other
C. become more similar to each other
D. always are members of the same class

4. __________ proved that the flies that developed on raw meat did not
come from the meat.

A. Redi
B. Pasteur
C. Needham
D. Spallanzani

5. The ability to survive and reproduce is called diversity.

A. true
B. false

6. The scientific name for humans is correctly written as __________.

A. Homo Sapiens
B. homo Sapiens
C. Homo sapiens
D. homo sapiens

7. The theory that organisms share a common ancestor is known as common descent.

A. true
B. false

8. Insects may become fossils if they are trapped in tree sap that hardens to become __________.

A. ice
B. amber
C. rock
D. tar

9. This organism is a multicellular heterotroph that has cell walls. What kingdom does it belong to?

A. Plantae
B. Fungi
C. Moneran
D. Protista

10. The theory that different organisms have ancestors that are related is the __________ theory.

A. analogous
B. homologous
C. common descent
D. uncommon ascent

11. During the Industrial Revolution, the dark-colored peppered moths outnumbered the light-colored peppered moths. Why?

A. The soot from factories settled on their wings.
B. The numbers were actually the same; light peppered moths were just harder to find.
C. Dark peppered moths blended into the new, dirtier environment.
D. Birds would only eat light-colored peppered moths.

12. Which of the following are examples of homologous structures?

A. arms, paws, tails
B. wings, feet, teeth
C. arms, wings, flippers
D. flippers, hoofs, beaks

13. Most fossils are found in __________.

A. igneous rock
B. sedimentary rock
C. metamorphic rock
D. volcanic rock

14. This organism lacks chloroplasts and cell walls. What kingdom does it belong to?

A. Plantae
B. Fungi
C. Moneran
D. Animalia

15. Where did the first cell membranes come from?

A. lipid droplets found on the water
B. DNA molecules
C. hydrothermal vents
D. amino acids

16. The two-part naming system is __________.

A. based only on Greek names
B. known as binomial nomenclature
C. used only for eukaryotic organisms
D. used only for prokaryotic organisms

17. What mutation occurs when a piece of chromosome breaks off and attaches to another chromosome?

A. nondisjunction
B. translocation
C. inversion
D. duplication

18. Mass extinction is when huge numbers of __________ have disappeared over a relatively short time.

A. animals
B. plants
C. species
D. kingdoms

19. Which of the following represents the largest amount of time?

A. era
B. eopch
C. period
D. year

20. __________ are scientists that explain events or phenomenon using natural laws instead of the supernatural.

A. Naturalists
B. Paleontologists
C. Biologists
D. Microbiologists


What do you call the people group who try to protect animals or prevent animals from becoming extinct?
(For example... Paleontologist, animal rights activist,etc)


I am, terrible at math. I am currently upgrading my math and I seriously question whether I am going to just pass it. I don't work hard enough at it, but also it requires knowing thing from grade 11 and 12 requisitew math i took over three years ago and ahve forgotten compeletly. I usually spend four or five hours getting free tourutage from another teacher there; that is when i try to do my homework. I have trouble getting to it in any envirment where there isn't a teacher. No need mentioning that I need to inprove in this, im ewell aware.
Pint is: i need this to work at a degree wiuth a major in paleobiology. any suggestions about becoming a paleontologist: remeber, a bachelor's is like my utlimate goal and I expexct to take several years achieving this. What exactly is the feasability of someone bad at math becoming a plaeontolgist? OR if I did fix this problem, during or after I have somehow gotten a bachelor's, would I need anything else? I won't autimatically shut out the possiblity of a masters; however anything beyound pme degree isn't even in the field of vision. Any suggestions? THanks
(also: and this is fairly realistic, if I could get a seasonal job at a natural history museum and just do that year in and out untill a permanent position comnes up, should i just do that? I am not too keen aon spending thousands on education I am only half-sue about. Thanks)


i m doing my BE in biotechnology can i become a paleontologist??


In answer to a question I just posted about the earth being billions of years old, a Christian responded with this;

“Technically it's just a THEORY, because we weren't around to OBSERVE it.”

Is this how most Christians define scientific theory? Would it help you, dear Christians, to define scientific theory by picturing a list of observable facts? Facts like the earth being 4.5 billion years old, 99% of all species on earth being extinct, DNA evidence, paleontologists always finding fossils of older species of creatures in strata below those of younger species, radiometric dating of fossils, etc, etc. Please note, these facts are NOT theories; they are observable facts supported by mountains of evidence and have been rigorously tested many times.

Now, you notice I haven’t placed the theory of evolution in that list of facts? That’s because theories are different to facts. Theories operate outside the list of facts. Theories explain the facts; they link them all up together. One way of looking at it is; hypotheses are on the left hand side of the list and they just have dotted lines linking up to their corresponding facts and observations. That’s because hypotheses are merely propositions or attempted explanations of those facts. Hypotheses need to be thoroughly examined and tested and once they have gone through this process, if they are still sound, they progress to the other side of the list where they become theories.

See, the theory of evolution was once in the hypothesis stage. It was once on the left hand side of the list with dotted lines connecting it to observable facts. These facts Darwin discovered on his voyage in the HMS Beagle around 150 years ago. He submitted his hypothesis attempting to explain the observations he had made on his voyage for peer review and once it had been examined and tested, the hypothesis of evolution graduated to become the theory of evolution. So do you see the difference between hypothesis and theory now and do you see how claiming something is “just a theory” because it has never been observed is a ridiculous claim to make?


What is the job like?
What sort of things do you do....like what is a day in your job like?
Where do you get to travel?
Where did you go to school?


What courses in college, and how long would it take to aquire the right degree for either or those?


I want to be a Paleontologist. Am I supposed to get a degree in Earth Science, or Geology? Then what?


I already got a B+ (final grade) in bio, and I'm taking Earth science AD. Also, I'm in science olimpiad and I got 5th place (out of 18-22 teams) for the fossil event (my partner had to do another event due to sudden time changes so I was solo) in the science olimpiad regionals (I'm aiming for 1st next year). With that on my record so far (as far as science classes) what other courses should I take if I want to become a paleontologist?


I wanted to become a thief and after that I wanted to go to the police (lol) and then I wanted to become a paleontologist to study dinosaurs. they all sound very boy-ish.
now I wanna become a photographer.

what about you?


'm interested in becoming one.
What skills would I have to have? e.g maths science?
What do they do?
And what qualifications do you need?





This is not to say that the fossil record is complete. Given the low likelihood of fossil preservation and recovery, it is not surprising that there are gaps in the fossil record. Nonetheless, paleontologists (the scientists who study fossils) continue to fill in the gaps in the fossil record. While many gaps interrupted the fossil record in Darwin's era, even then, scientists knew of the Archaeopteryx fossil transitional between dinosaurs and birds. Today, the fossil record is far more complete, particularly among the vertebrates; fossils have been found linking all the major groups. Recent years have seen spectacular discoveries closing some of the major remaining gaps in our understanding of vertebrate evolution. For example, recently a four-legged aquatic mammal was discovered that provides important insights concerning the evolution of whales and dolphins from land-living, hoofed ancestors (figure 3). Similarly, a fossil snake with legs has shed light on the evolution of snakes, which are descended from lizards that gradually became more and more elongated with simultaneous reduction and eventual disappearance of the limbs.
On a finer scale, evolutionary change within some types of animals is known in exceptional detail. For example, about 200 million years ago, oysters underwent a change from small curved shells to larger, flatter ones, with progressively flatter fossils being seen in the fossil record over a period of 12 million years (figure 4). A host of other examples all illustrate a record of successive change. The demonstration of this successive change is one of the strongest lines of evidence that evolution has occurred.
The fossil record provides a clear record of the major evolutionary transitions that have occurred through time.


It can be in the U.S or U.K. I am planning to go to a university because I am graduating this year and my parents said to choose a University/College. I am planning to be a field technician, professor and retire as a museum curator. So any suggestions will do. Thanks.


Because I really want to live up to 72 get married, have 2 kids, become a paleontologist, and read the bible cover to cover 10 times.
i meant live up to the age of 72....
i want to marry at 27 sheesh


Are there any risks or harzards that i have to be aware of, if i want to become a paleontologist?


I'm going to become a novelist, writing in the genre of love novels, adventure/fantasies, and satire. I will also become an archaeologists with the intent of solving all the mysteries of the past. One day, I'll travel around the world and to Egypt where I will find the hints to Atlantis, I'll find El Dorado, and I will find the remnants of what remain from Alexander's famous library. I will also become a paleontologist. Traveling around the world, digging up the bones of beasts we can never see today. But my main career is a researcher in biotechnology. I will develop the serum for immortality, the cure for cancer, and from birds, I will retro-engineer real life dinosaurs! Thats how I imagine my life to be like. How about you?





“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. #
Note a recurring theme. About half of the climate scientists do not support the Global Warming hysteriia, and that half tends to be the elite minds. The bottom feeders are the ones who believe this crap.

I'd rather believe upper echelon minds than the intellectual gutter trash, basically.


Im 13 i KNOW this is what i want to do when i get older. I want to be a paleontologist, one who goes out in the feild and digs up fossils and studies them in a lab. How can i get into this career feild? I love the idea of it and i am willing to do just about anything to get this career. What are some colleges or universities to look into? What is the basic information for becoming a great paleontologist? Please tell me all information possible.

Thanks,
Connor
Dear sophia m,

If you have no positive comments or answers then just dont even say anything. my impression of you is this: uptight, know-it-all brat, you think way to much of yourself. To me you mean nothing, your just a pessimistic person who should give up on life, other people dont want to hear the $H*T that comes out of your mouth, so shut your f*cking trap. : ]


What degree is required exactly to become a paleontologist? Are there any schools in Washington state that have such degrees?


1. Modify the following false statement to make it a true statement: Fossil are found in igneous rock.
2. Explain how the principle of superposition is used by geologists to compare the ages of rocks.
3. Determine the type of rock that will form in each of the following scenarios:
a. Lava pours onto the ocean floor and cools.
b. Minerals cement small pieces of sand together.
c. Mudstone is subjected to great hear and pressure over a long period of time.
4. Explain why a construction worker who uses a jackhammer on a rock does not produce a metamorphic rock.
5. Identify what type of rock might have a lot of holes in it due to the formation of gas bubbles. Explain you answer.
6. A paleontologist who is researching extinctions notices that certain fossils are never ground above a layer of sediment containing the radioactive isotope rubidium-87 or below another layer containing the same isotope. To determine when these animals became extinct, should the paleontologist use relative dating, absolute dating, or a combination of the 2? Explain you answer.


Thanks. Please don't include the question in your answer. ☺


Like, what classes do I need to take ?
I'm 14 and I'm doing my IGCSEs right now and I'm taking English (1st lang.), French, Mathematics (Extended), Chemistry, Biology, Literature, History.
Do I need to be taking something else or something different ?
please and thank you =]
thanks for the answers :)
after year 11, is it best to do IB or A levels ?