What exactly do Paleontologists do?
Paleontologists study fossils and that tells them the history of life on the planet. Fossils are the remains of organisms that lived in the past. The oldest fossils are 3.5 billion years old. They are bacteria almost as old as the Earth itself. We read that you used to be a mediocre science student. What made science easier for you other than that you found an area that made you passionate about it? I was not actually that bad of a science student but I was more interested in French and Latin when I was a grammar student. And music. But I fell in love with the romance of studying ancient life by collecting fossils. Passion is everything! If you have a flair for something and that usually involves having a passion for it, it will be easier for you. What makes the Galpagos so special? The Galpagos Islands are right on the Equator and they also have a cold water current going past them so its possible to see flamingos and penguins in the same place. When Charles Darwin arrived there in 18
