A paleobotanist is someone who studies ancient plants and plant fossils. They help us understand how plants have evolved over time and provide insights into Earth's past environments. Full definition
Scientists imagined they were big, but not that big, says William Stein, paleobotanist at Binghamton University in upstate New York. (discovermagazine.com)
It's «a beautiful little experiment,» says paleobotanist Peter Wilf of Pennsylvania State University in State College, who notes that the strategy gives mosses a way to propagate in dry places. (sciencemag.org)
Paleobotanist Peter Wilf of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, came across Strong's research in 1998, when he was studying a different sort of insect damage — mysterious specks of fossilized material found on 53 - million - year - old fossil leaves from Wyoming. (sciencemag.org)