1) Nevertheless, even allowing for all the frailties of palaeontologists, there still remains a remarkable picture of palaeontological persistence.

2) These questions have been raised by leading palaeontologists and archaeologists in a spate of articles in newspapers and journals.

3) But clearly it was imperialistic palaeontologists rather than imperialist fossils that set the pattern in both cases.

4) The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues.

5) So far palaeontologists have only scratched the surface of a formation that Rauhut estimates covers at least several hundred square kilometres.

6) Manchester palaeontologist Phil Manning described the discovery as an insight into "the chemistry of life itself".

7) Now,(http:///palaeontologist.html) renowned Chinese palaeontologist Professor Xu Xing believes his new discovery has finally knocked Archaeopteryx off its perch.

8) Palaeontologist Richard Owen told him the fossils he had found were of extinct relatives of South American animals living today.

9) The palaeontologist claimed that he had found a uniquedinosaur fossil but it turned out to be a mare's nest.

10) Dr Phil Manning, a palaeontologist at the University of Manchester, describes the find as ' gobsmackingly amazing' and also 'bloody useful'.

11) Georges Cuvier, an early palaeontologist, made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence, such as single bones.

12) A palaeontologist at the British Museum assembled the bones and believed that they represented the "missing link" between humans and apes.

13) Russia even has its own mammoth "oligarch" – palaeontologist Fedor Shidlovsky.

14) Conclusion Future advances will depend largely on molecular biologists and palaeontologists, although no data-source should be neglected.

15) Recent fossil finds in Africa have excited interest among palaeontologists.

16) "We were surprised to find so many species from the same time in the same place, " said Hans Larsson, a palaeontologist at the University of Montreal, who took part in the expedition.

17) The nearly intact skull, which has a flat face, jaw and teeth, may belong to a previously unknown species of great ape, said Salvador Moya , the chief palaeontologist on the dig.

18) "We thought Lucy was the find of the century but, in retrospect, it isn't, " palaeontologist Andrew Hill at Yale University told Science. "It's worth the wait."

19) We have parts of the lower jaw that are huge compared with anything we've ever seen, " said Espen Madsen Knutsen, a palaeontologist on the team at the University of Oslo that studied the creature.

20) And James Randerson recently chaired a debate between the Cambridge palaeontologist Simon Conway-Morris and Elaine Morgan, advocate of the "aquatic ape" hypothesis, at the Bath Literature Festival.

21) Dr Dobson came up with the theory while reading a book by Richard Fortey, the Natural History Museum palaeontologist.

22) "It was half the size of a domestic cat and probably hunted and ate whatever it could for its size, " said Nick Longrich, a palaeontologist at the University of Calgary, who led the expedition.