Roy Plotnick has an interesting article published at Medium.  Paleontology is much, much more than dinosaurs.  Enjoy!

It happened again today. I was asked what it is do and when I said I was a paleontologist, the response was “cool.” This is the common reaction, often followed by (if we are not confused with archeologists), asking how many dinosaurs I have discovered. I then have to explain that although I study fossils, I don’t work on dinosaurs and have never discovered one.