"Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries" examines modern paleontology and new theories about dinosaurs and the world in which they lived.

In 1931 Ernst Stromer named Carcharodontosauridae as a family, in modern paleontology this name indicates a clade within Carnosauria.

Burney concluded that while the villagers had possibly encountered a Malagasy hippopotamus, it was also possible that the stories were inaccurate-a combination of misidentified animals, old folk traditions, and information the villagers had gathered from modern paleontology.

Short biography from a website that chronicles the "rocky road to modern paleontology and biology"

Fossils of Encrinus went by several names in Germany before the establishment of modern paleontology.

When it was identified nearly 150 years ago, Hadrosaurus opened the door to modern paleontology.

Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs.

Professor Ostrom's studies of the similarities between birds and dinosaurs have had a marked influence on modern paleontology.

The statistical correlations of modern paleontology have taken much of the speculation out of the subject, although some details remain undetermined.

This basic division has survived into modern paleontology, with the exception of, again, the Prosauropoda, which Romer included as an infraorder of theropods.