is Twilight who a set her as student for Professor Fossil! and she learn well!

@Scrounge
 

 
Well, that depends on the situation. When you’re dealing with the really old type of fossils, where you’re usually excavating out of solid stone, they get pretty different. When you’re working with younger stuff – pretty much anything younger than two million years or so, and a great deal of stuff in North America from the age of mammals, turns out – where you’re just digging out of very compacted soil, then you’re right – the methods are pretty much the same, as far as I’m aware.

@FrustrationInExcelsis  
Interesting thought, but I was mostly just suggesting she could be interested in both even if there isn’t a whole lot of overlap. (I assumed they shared excavation methods and not much else.)

@SeraphimDawn
 
Eeeh… not really.
 
I am myself studying to eventually go into paleontology, and the two fields don’t overlap as much as you’d think. Paleontology concerns itself with the study of animals and plants that are no longer around today, and with the development and changes of life over time. Compared to the timescale with which paleontologists work, and on which noteworthy developments in life have taken place, the five to six millennia with which archeology usually works are a blink of an eye – you don’t need paleontological study to determine what living things and ecosystems were like back at the dawn of civilization, because they were for all intents and purposes exactly the same kind of living things and ecosystems that are around now.
 
There is one area where the two fields do overlap, mind, and that’s the study of prehistoric humans. You need at least some paleontology in that field because you’re dealing with reconstructing species and organisms that haven’t existed for a very long time, but some expertise with reconstructing ancient societies and cultures from physical remnants is also needed. That’s not something a paleontologist is going to have training in, which is where archeology comes in.
 
Put it another way, overlap between paleontology and archeology mostly happens with what people using think of as the Ice Age and the Stone Age, where you get both human societies and extinct life forms.

@FrustrationInExcelsis  
Fauna and flora have always been a part of civilized history.  
I’m sure paleontologist and archeologists are often seen working by each other.

@Scrounge
 
Honestly, I feel like the divide between paleontology and archeology might be a lot fuzzier in Equestria than it is in our world
 
I mean, let’s assume that Equestria’s like your typical fantasy setting and everything was created in relatively recent times by a creator/multiple creators/magic/whatever. If that is the case, then there probably wouldn’t be as much of a need to differentiate between the two things when everything’s happened within, oh, the last hundred thousand to a million years or so, and sapient creatures were around for most of that time.

@Background Pony #4F12  
Totally read that in Dr. Grant’s voice.

I was pleasantly surprised to see her again.

@Scrounge  

@Background Pony #67C7  

it’s a shame that she’s portrayed as an archeologist not an paleontologist :/

@Background Pony #4F12  
Psst, velociraptors were about the size of turkeys and mostly ate small lixards and insects. You’re thinking of different, less sucessful, and larger vafieties of raptors.

I was more excited about Petunia’s return than I was about Star Swirl’s. Not kidding.

A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this “six foot turkey” as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he’ll lose you if you don’t move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that’s when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn’t even know were there. Because Velociraptor’s a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this… A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn’t bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say… no no. He slashes at you here, or here…Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.

@TiberiusPonificus  
Looks like it’s archaeology camp this week, kids!

Petunia is already working in the professional world it seems.

Justinscarred: Are those petunias?

The second I saw her, I honestly squealed!

Aww yes, best Filly is back ^^

Hey. Who turned David from Camp Camp into a little colt?

It still shocks me how doubtful some ponies can be.