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Richard Owen

Richard Owen was a prominent 19th-century British paleontologist whose anatomical studies significantly advanced our und...

Anatomy Britain Historical Dinosaurs

9.3 Excellent

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Harry B. Whittington

Harry B. Whittington was a prominent British paleontologist specializing in Cambrian fossils. His meticulous re-examinat...

Britain Cambrian Burgess Shale Trilobites

9.1 Excellent

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Jenny Clack

Jenny Clack is a British paleontologist specializing in the study of Devonian fossils. Her research, particularly concer...

Britain Historical Devonian Tetrapods

8.9 Great

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Chris Stringer

Chris Stringer is a prominent paleontologist specializing in human origins. His extensive research focuses on paleoanthr...

Britain Human Origins Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.9 Great

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Derek Briggs

Derek Briggs is a prominent paleontologist specializing in the study of invertebrates from the Burgess Shale formation i...

Britain Invertebrates Burgess Shale Taphonomy

8.8 Great

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Richard Fortey

Richard Fortey was a British paleontologist at London's Natural History Museum, known for trilobite research and elected...

Britain Paleozoic Invertebrates Trilobites

8.7 Great

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Simon Conway Morris

Simon Conway Morris is a British paleontologist specializing in the Cambrian period. His significant contributions inclu...

Evolution Britain Cambrian Burgess Shale

8.7 Great

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Erik Stensiö

Erik Stensiö was a prominent paleontologist specializing in the Paleozoic Era. His extensive work focused on the detaile...

Sweden Paleozoic Fishes Placoderms

8.7 Great

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Elisabeth Vrba

Elisabeth Vrba was a Yale paleontologist, known for the turnover-pulse hypothesis and for coining exaptation with Stephe...

USA Evolution Africa Mammals

8.6 Great

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Michael J. Benton

Michael J. Benton is a British paleontologist at the University of Bristol, known for work on mass extinctions and verte...

Britain Triassic Vertebrates Macroevolution

8.5 Great

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Philippe Janvier

Philippe Janvier is a prominent French paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, recognized as...

France Paleozoic Vertebrates Fishes

8.5 Great

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Meemann Chang

Meemann Chang is a pioneering Chinese paleontologist at the IVPP, renowned for her extensive work on extinct fossil fish...

China Devonian Vertebrates Fishes

8.4 Great

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James W. Valentine

James W. Valentine was an American evolutionary paleobiologist at UC Berkeley, known for work on animal phyla and On the...

USA Evolution Cambrian Invertebrates

8.4 Great

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Neil Shubin

Neil Shubin is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who co-discovered Tiktaalik in Arctic Canada in 200...

USA Evolution Devonian Tetrapods

8.3 Great

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Kevin Padian

Kevin Padian is an American paleontologist at UC Berkeley, known for pterosaurs, bird origins, and evolution testimony i...

USA Evolution Dinosaurs Pterosaurs

8.3 Great

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John A. Long

John A. Long is an Australian paleontologist at Flinders University, notable for his extensive discoveries and research...

Australia Evolution Fishes Placoderms

8.1 Great

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Paul Barrett

Paul Barrett is a British vertebrate paleontologist at London's Natural History Museum, noted for dinosaur diets and Vec...

Evolution Britain Dinosaurs Sauropodomorphs

7.8 Good

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Steve Brusatte

Steve Brusatte is an American paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, known for dinosaur evolution studies and ty...

Evolution Britain Dinosaurs Theropods

7.7 Good

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Arthur Smith Woodward

Arthur Smith Woodward was a British paleontologist and fossil-fish expert who named many fishes and described the Piltdo...

Britain Historical Vertebrates Fishes

7.6 Good

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David M. Martill

David M. Martill is a British vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Portsmouth, noted for studies of Brazil's C...

Britain Cretaceous Fishes Pterosaurs

7.5 Good