On April 4, 1796, French zoologist Georges Cuvier gave the first public lecture on fossilized life forms at the opening of the National Institute. His paper was the first to theorize that African and Indian elephants were different species and that based on his studies of fossils there was once another species that must have become extinct. This talk led to the formation of a certain field that gets its name from three words in Greek, meaning 'old,ancient ', 'being,creature ' and 'speech,thought,study'. The field is named as PALEONTOLOGY that captures almost every child's fancy.
Sharing the postage stamp of the famous French zoologist, also called as " founding fathers of Paleontology ".
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