World and I, January 1st, 1999
In just the last three years, paleontologists have made front-page news by recovering South American fossils of Gigantosaurus carolinii, an eight-ton predator even larger than the familiar Tyrannosaurus rex; extremely rare soft-tissue fossils of the organs of a baby dinosaur in China; and the fossilized remains of the smallest mammal yet found, a five-gram, tree-dwelling creature in Wyoming.
These and other recent new discoveries and developments in paleontology belie a surprisingly small professional field. In the United States, there are only about 1,200 active, professional paleontologis...
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