How To Pursue A Career As A Paleotologist

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Life as a Paleontologist can be a stressful career. To be a Paleontologist you need a college degree in Geology or Biology. A Paleontologist uses research to find out certain things about the organisms they find as fossils. They use qualitative and quantitative research. They use geology and biology because it connects with paleontology to show where these things are found and where they would have been in the past. To be a Paleontologist you need a degree for geology of biology. Some colleges that have good Paleontology programs are: University of Kansas, Yale University, and University of Chicago. The cost for everything in the University of Kansas is: $85,650. Undergraduates typically concentrate in paleontology, and if you have

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