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Within the paleontological community, Horner is best known for his work on dinosaur growth research. He has published numerous articles in collaboration with Berkeley paleontologist Kevin Padian, and French dinosaur histologist Armand de Ricqlès, on the growth of dinosaurs using growth series. This usually involves leg bones in graduated sizes ...
Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). [2]
One archosaur group, the dinosaurs, were the dominant land vertebrates for the rest of the Mesozoic, [111] and birds evolved from one group of dinosaurs. [107] During this time mammals' ancestors survived only as small, mainly nocturnal insectivores, which may have accelerated the development of mammalian traits such as endothermy and hair. [112]
Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. [1] Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a "dinosaur renaissance".
He earned the nickname “Dr. Dinosaur” after discovering a Hadrosaur bone at a fossil site. There are at least 429 park units of a variety of 14+ designations in the National Park Service, and ...
Jurassic World invented the Indominous rex dinosaur and the whole planet seems thrilled they did. So what real dinosaur did the movie-makers use to design I-rex? Check out Therizinosaurus.
Larson has written and co-authored numerous publications on dinosaurs. [ 12 ] [ 3 ] [ 13 ] He was one of the first to work with T. rex bone pathologies, has worked to uncover sexual dimorphism in the chevron length of T. rex, and argues that several juvenile T. rex skeletons actually represent a distinct genus, Nanotyrannus. [ 14 ]