{"id":826,"date":"2025-12-04T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/?p=826"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:23:03","slug":"el-estudio-de-los-fosiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/el-estudio-de-los-fosiles\/","title":{"rendered":"El estudio de los f\u00f3siles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al escuchar el t\u00e9rmino \u201cpaleont\u00f3logo\u201d seguro nos viene a la mente el Dr. Alan Grant y la Dra. Ellie Sattler, dos cient\u00edficos famosos del universo de Parque Jur\u00e1sico. Gracias a esta asociaci\u00f3n la gran mayor\u00eda de la gente sabe que los paleont\u00f3logos estudian dinosaurios.<\/p>\n<p>Bueno, el Dr. Grant estudiaba dinosaurios, pero la Dra. Sattler estudiaba plantas, \u00bfno?<\/p>\n<p>Entonces\u2026 \u00bfQu\u00e9 hace un paleont\u00f3logo exactamente?<\/p>\n<p>La Paleontolog\u00eda es una rama de la biolog\u00eda y se define como la ciencia natural que se dedica al estudio de los f\u00f3siles. As\u00ed que los paleont\u00f3logos son cient\u00edficos que estudian f\u00f3siles, esa ser\u00eda la explicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s sencilla.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPero qu\u00e9 es un f\u00f3sil? Seguro se preguntar\u00e1n ahora. El t\u00e9rmino viene del lat\u00edn fossilis que significa \u201cexcavado\u201d y en \u00e9pocas romanas se utilizaba para designar cualquier material extra\u00eddo de la tierra.<\/p>\n<p>En la actualidad los f\u00f3siles son, a grandes rasgos, cualquier evidencia de vida antigua.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed que la Paleontolog\u00eda se encarga de estudiar la vida del pasado a partir de las evidencias que tenemos de ella en la actualidad. Es una mezcla entre Biolog\u00eda y Geolog\u00eda, tomando lo mejor de las dos disciplinas. Si bien los dinosaurios son una imagen muy importante que se asocia a la paleontolog\u00eda, su estudio abarca formas de vida muy variadas, incluyendo todos los reinos de seres vivos que han existido en nuestro planeta.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s es importante mencionar que los f\u00f3siles son m\u00e1s que rastros de criaturas muertas preservadas en las rocas, son herramientas muy valiosas que nos permiten interpretar el pasado geol\u00f3gico y biol\u00f3gico: reconstruyen comunidades y ambientes que muchas veces ya no existen en la actualidad, tienen utilidad para datar la edad de los estratos geol\u00f3gicos, ayudan a entender las relaciones de ancestr\u00eda-descendencia y evoluci\u00f3n de las especies actuales y s\u00ed, algunos sirven como un recurso natural no renovable en la forma del carb\u00f3n mineral e hidrocarburos, que por cierto, no provienen de f\u00f3siles de dinosaurios\u2026 \u00a1Pero esa es otra historia!<\/p>\n<p>S\u00edgueme por: h<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DinodatosFB\">ttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DinodatosFB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al escuchar el t\u00e9rmino \u201cpaleont\u00f3logo\u201d seguro nos viene a la mente el Dr. Alan Grant y la Dra. Ellie Sattler, dos cient\u00edficos famosos del universo de Parque Jur\u00e1sico. Gracias a esta asociaci\u00f3n la gran mayor\u00eda de la gente sabe que los paleont\u00f3logos estudian dinosaurios. Bueno, el Dr. Grant estudiaba dinosaurios, pero la Dra. Sattler estudiaba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"columnista":[17],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columnas","columnista-dinodatos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"columnista","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/columnista?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}