Palaeontology is the study of:

• Palaeontology is the scientific study of life that ever existed before.
• Palaeontology includes the study of fossils to classify organisms.
• Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.
• Palaeontology lies between geology and biology.
• Evidence of evolution, a living fossil, and fossils are important topics in Palaeontology.

Additional Information

• The study of Volcanoes is known as Volcanology.
• The study of rocks is known as Petrology.
• The study of the atmosphere is known as Meteorology.