Anybody else into Paelontology

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I have a very keen interest in paleontology, particularly of prehistoric mammals like the mammoth. At the moment I am watching LA 10,000 BC where they simulate what is was like to be colvis hunters hunting mammoth in the Los Angeles area around 10,000 BC. Quite fascinating.

I'm more into feathered dinosaurs, but in my area most fossils are Eocene and later. It's amazing what you can find in rivers- glyptodont plates, mammoth bones, shark teeth, all sorts of neat stuff.

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I am majoring in geology, and paleontology is usually a required course.

Tim

That was my first obsession. I was all dinosaur at first, but my real interest was in the weird animals that seemed like mistakes. I still watch some of the shows on it, but I'm mostly age of Fishes/Sharks.

I used to be really big into it, now only somewhat so.

Yes, I'm considering doing my degree in it actually But am still unsure.. I am taking biology and geology and have an interest in history.. so hopefully I will end up working in a field which combines all of that.. paleantology tends to fit!

I am and yes the show sounds quite fasinating

Did you all read about this: a paleontologist has found soft tissue in a dinosaur bone!

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/20 ... nosaur.php

I am into paleontology. My favorite dinosaur is the Triceratops.

I was very interested in paleantology for quite sometime, especially when I was a child. Even now, if something paleantology related comes on the TV or I see an article somewhere, I do take a keen interest.