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Name:  Vaughn
Status:  student
Age:  15
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Date: 2000-2001
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What education do you need to be a paleontologist?

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Since Paleontology is so specialized and so very complex you, of course, need a strong undergraduate education with the typical comparative anatomy, evolutionary bio courses etc. and then need to go onto grad school...Usually a Ph.D. but a masters might due depending on the situation.

Peter Faletra

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