Where Are All The Pokemon Paleontologists?

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There are now 16 known Pokemon that can be created from DNA stored in fossils. Fossils have been found in almost every region in the world and have been known to contain the material necessary to birth exceptionally powerful Pokemon, including Tyrantrum, Kabutops, and Bastiodon. There is so much untapped potential waiting to be discovered in buried Pokemon fossils across the world, so why is it that no one seems to care?

There are no paleontologists in the world of Pokemon. Some might argue that Pokemon uses the archeologists to represent paleontologists, but I don’t think there are any archeologists in Pokemon either. Even the people who call themselves archeologists just stand around waiting for you to bring them fossils, and then let you keep them. Archeologists are explorers and adventurers that should be out in the world digging up fossils and ancient relics themselves to learn whatever they can about the ancient world. Pokemon’s ‘archeologists’ are not scientists, they just mindlessly operate the mysterious fossil machines.

There is one trainer class that almost fits the bill. The so-called Ruin Maniacs can be found in tunnels and caves starting in Gen 3, and while they certainly have the look of paleontologists, with their pith helmets and large backpacks full of maps, they’re never actually doing paleontology. These trainers use Ground, Rock, and Steel-type Pokemon like Geodude and Sandshrew, but to my knowledge none of them has ever had a Fossil Pokemon, at least outside of the Battle Tower. In Gen 4, one of them challenges you to catch 26 Unown before he can finish digging through the Maniac Tunnel, but that’s not really paleontology or archeology - it’s barely even geology. Every time you meet a trainer with a