Tim flannery , an australian mammalogist and palaeontologist , is an environmental celebrity .
澳大利亚哺乳动物学家兼古生物学家,timflannery,是一个环境方面的名人。
It was discovered in the canadian rockies over a century ago and was popularised in 1989 in a book , " wonderful life " , by stephen jay gould , an american palaeontologist .
Dr eyers was suspicious that the infants were systematically killed because they were unwanted births - a suspicion which has been confirmed by simon mays , a palaeontologist who has spent the past year measuring the bones .
Georges cuvier , an early palaeontologist , made his reputation by predicting the anatomies of newly discovered fossil species from scant evidence , such as single bones .