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Elaine Anderson was born in Salida, Colorado, on January 8, 1936. [1] She was the only child of John and Edith Anderson. She was raised in Denver, Colorado. [2] Anderson graduated from the University of Colorado in 1960. She completed her Master's thesis in 1965. For her Ph.D., she opted to go to Finland, becoming the first Fulbright Scholar to ...
Andrews was born on January 26, 1884, in Beloit, Wisconsin. As a child, he explored forests, fields, and waters nearby, developing marksmanship skills. He taught himself taxidermy and used funds from this hobby to pay tuition to Beloit College. After graduating, Andrews applied for work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
On his retirement from Montana State University on July 1, 2016, the MacMillan Foundation honored Horner for his work with a $3 million endowment for the John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology Chair for the Museum of the Rockies/ Montana State University - funding the work of his Paleontology successors in perpetuity. [23]
The location of the United States in North America. A substantial amount of paleontological research has occurred within or conducted by people from the United States. Paleontologists have found that at the start of the Paleozoic era, what is now "North" America was actually in the southern hemisphere. Marine life flourished in the country's ...
Grinnell was born on September 20, 1849, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of George Blake and Helen Lansing Grinnell. The family moved when he was seven to Audubon Park , the section of Washington Heights in Manhattan which was developed from the estate after noted ornithologist John James Audubon 's death in 1851. [ 2 ]
Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), [1] commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist.He discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1): 119–143. Dinosaur Fossils are not found in Indiana Archived 2018-04-04 at the Wayback Machine Our Hoosier State Beneath Us: Paleontology. Indiana Geological Survey, Department of Natural Resources. Accessed August 2, 2012.
Annie Montague Alexander (29 December 1867 – 10 September 1950) was an explorer, naturalist, paleontological collector, and philanthropist.. She founded the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ).