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Tim D. White

Tim D. White is a prominent paleontologist specializing in paleoanthropology. His research focuses on hominins, extinct...

USA Africa Paleoanthropology Hominins

9.1 Excellent

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American paleontologist and American Museum of Natural History president who named Tyranno...

USA Historical Mammals Dinosaurs

8.6 Great

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Malcolm McKenna

Malcolm McKenna was a prominent American paleomammalogist at the American Museum of Natural History, best known for his...

USA Historical Mammals Taxonomy

8.6 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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Philip D. Gingerich

Philip D. Gingerich is an American paleontologist renowned for his extensive fieldwork and discoveries of early cetacean...

USA Mammals Eocene Whales

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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Julia A. Clarke

Julia A. Clarke is an American paleontologist who led the 2005 description of Vegavis, a Cretaceous bird from Antarctica...

USA Evolution Dinosaurs Birds

8.2 Great

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Kay Behrensmeyer

Kay Behrensmeyer is an American taphonomist at the Smithsonian, known for East African fossil sites and long-term Ambose...

USA Mammals Paleoecology Taphonomy

8.2 Great

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William Diller Matthew

William Diller Matthew was a Canadian-born paleontologist at the AMNH, noted for 1915 work linking mammal evolution with...

USA Historical Mammals Biogeography

8.1 Great

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Richard H. Tedford

Richard H. Tedford was an American paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, highly regarded for his fou...

USA Historical Mammals Carnivorans

8.0 Great

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Xiaoming Wang

Xiaoming Wang is a prominent paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, widely recognized as a...

USA Mammals Neogene Carnivorans

7.9 Good

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David B. Weishampel

David B. Weishampel is an American dinosaur paleontologist who co-edited The Dinosauria, a major reference first publish...

USA Evolution Dinosaurs Hadrosaurs

7.8 Good

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Daryl Domning

Daryl Domning is an American paleontologist recognized as a leading authority on the evolutionary history and fossil rec...

USA Evolution Marine Mammals Sirenians

7.8 Good

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Mary R. Dawson

Mary R. Dawson was an American vertebrate paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, celebrated for her e...

USA Mammals Eocene Vertebrates

7.7 Good

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Christine Janis

Christine Janis is an American paleontologist noted for her extensive research on the evolutionary morphology, ecology,...

USA Evolution Mammals Paleoecology

7.7 Good

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Albert Gaudry

Albert Gaudry was a French paleontologist whose studies of Miocene fossils from Pikermi, Greece, helped popularize evolu...

Evolution France Historical Mammals

7.6 Good

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Annalisa Berta

Annalisa Berta is an American paleontologist at San Diego State, known for marine mammal evolution and the early pinnipe...

USA Evolution Marine Mammals Pinnipeds

7.6 Good

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Donald Prothero

Donald Prothero is an American paleontologist and prolific author recognized for his significant contributions to the st...

USA Evolution Mammals Stratigraphy

7.6 Good

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Catherine E. Badgley

Catherine E. Badgley is an American paleontologist at the University of Michigan, noted for mammal paleoecology and SVP...

USA Mammals Paleoecology Neogene

7.3 Good