ABSTRACT
“PALEONTOLOGY” says the dictionary, “is the science that deals with the life of past geological periods.” So the sources of this science differ from the sources of biology, or zoology, or botany, in that the individuals under observation are no longer alive, but are in a fossil condition. Ages have fled past since the creatures whose fossil remains we now observe were alive and sentient, and in the science of paleontology we have the evidences of life as it once was, rather than as it now is.
