Old Bones - a blog about Vertebrate Paleontology

Evolution, deep-time history, comparative, multidisciplinarity, anatomy, geology

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Shape, that is morphology, also helps us learn how the animals lived - their ecology, or in the case of fossils, their paleoecology.  

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One of the key phrases to describe how paleontology gets done is, "The present is the key to the past" - by studying animals in the present we can make inferences about extinct life in the past.

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