He was a director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and co-founder of The Planetary Society. Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist and geologist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural ...
Fan Junxuan, a paleontologist at Nanjing University in China, led the team to create and analyze a database of fossil marine invertebrate species that were found in more than 3,000 layers of rock, mostly from China but representing geology across the planet during the early Palaeozoic. The e...
National Geographic via Amazon One of the most popular gifts of 2021 among CBS Essentials readers, the National Geographic Mega Fossil Dig Kit is the ideal gift for the budding paleontologist on your list (ages 8 and up). The main feature of the kit is a slab that, once chipped away at...
Or see what it’s like to be a paleontologist by handling and preparing real dinosaur bones. The interactive Australian Age of Dinosaurs houses the biggest collection of Australian fossils in the world and they’re constantly discovering more on site. The 1,400 hectare property also has many wa...
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow paleontologist Mary Leakey. Having establ...