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Any paleontologist worth his or her salt takes a great deal of pleasure in thinking of the discoveries he has made in the field and laboratory, but true satisfaction is in the publications that describe and interpret the fossils.

Edwin H. Colbert

The past is mysterious, ever so the farther we look back from our vantage point in the twentieth-century world. As we follow the procession of the year back through time the earth and its inhabitants seem to us less real and less substantial the more distantly they are removed from this age in which we live.

Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert

Born: September 28, 1905

Died: November 15, 2001 (aged 96)

Bio: Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author.

Known for:

Evolution of the Vertebrates (1955)
The age of reptiles (1965)
The little dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch (1995)
Wandering lands and animals (1973)

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