Science as a Way of Knowing
Q: What role does science play in the study of life?
These paleontologists—biologists who study ancient life—are working to reconstruct the skeleton of Carcharodontosaurus, a giant dinosaur that lived over 90 million years ago. By using scientific skills such as observation and inference, scientists can learn how ancient animals lived. The huge teeth of this dinosaur are sharp and serrated like a knife, suited for eating meat—a lot of it!