| A | B |
|---|
| Paleontologist | scientists who study prehistoric life |
| quarry | place where stone is dug, cut, or blasted out |
| roamed | wandered |
| fragile | easily broken, damaged or destroyed |
| poisonous | containing a dangerous substance; very harmful to life and health |
| prey | animals hunted and killed for food by another animal |
| sluggish | lacking energy or vigor |
| specimens | examples of a group; samples |
| treacherous | very dangerous while seeming to be safe |
| volcanic | of or caused by a volcano |
| exacavation | the act of uncovering by digging |
| geologists | scientists who study the composition of the Earth or of other heavenly bodies, the process that formed them, and their history |
