High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paleontology (pronounced /?p?l??n?t?l?d?i/; British: palaeontology; from Greek: ??????? (palaeos) "old, ancient", ??, ???- (on, ont-) "being, creature", and ????? (logos) "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology). As a "historical science" it attempts to explain causes rather than conduct experiments to observe effects. Paleontological observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC. The science became established in the 18th century as a result of Georges Cuvier's work on comparative anatomy, and developed rapidly in the 19th century. Fossils found in China since the 1990s have provided new information about the earliest evolution of animals, early fish, dinosaurs and the evolution of birds and mammals. Paleontology lies on the border between biology and geology, and...

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