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John H. Ostrom

John H. Ostrom was a prominent American paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs and birds. His meticulous research on *...

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9.3 Excellent

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Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist associated with Yale University. His extensiv...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

9.2 Excellent

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Xu Xing

Xu Xing is a leading paleontologist specializing in Chinese dinosaurs. His work has dramatically reshaped our understand...

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9.2 Excellent

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (1830-1897) was a prominent American paleontologist renowned for his prolific discoveries of dinosau...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

9.1 Excellent

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Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown was a pioneering paleontologist specializing in dinosaur fieldwork. His discovery of the initial Tyrannosau...

USA Fieldwork Tyrannosaurus Dinosaurs

8.8 Great

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Robert T. Bakker

Robert T. Bakker is a prominent American paleontologist specializing in paleobiology. His research, particularly detaile...

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8.8 Great

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Rinchen Barsbold

Rinchen Barsbold was a pioneering paleontologist specializing in the dinosaurs of Mongolia. His extensive work in the Go...

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8.8 Great

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Joseph Leidy

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USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

8.7 Great

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

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8.6 Great

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Halszka Osmólska

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Poland Dinosaurs Gobi Theropods

8.6 Great

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Philip J. Currie

Philip J. Currie is a Canadian paleontologist, former Royal Tyrrell curator, known for theropod research and Alberta din...

Canada Dinosaurs Gobi Theropods

8.5 Great

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Fernando Novas

Fernando Novas is an Argentine paleontologist at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum who co-discovered unus...

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8.5 Great

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert was an American paleontologist who studied Ghost Ranch's Coelophysis assemblage and found Antarctic Lys...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

8.4 Great

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Jack Horner

Jack Horner is an American paleontologist who described Maiasaura nesting grounds in Montana, key evidence for dinosaur...

USA Fieldwork Eggs Dinosaurs

8.4 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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Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer who led 1920s AMNH expeditions to Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where crews found...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Gobi

7.7 Good

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Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

Thomas R. Holtz Jr. is an American paleontologist at the University of Maryland, noted for tyrannosaur systematics and d...

Education USA Dinosaurs Theropods

7.7 Good

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Matthew Carrano

Matthew Carrano is an American paleontologist at the Smithsonian, noted for dinosaur macroevolution and a 2012 phylogeny...

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7.7 Good

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Lindsay Zanno

Lindsay Zanno is an American theropod paleontologist at North Carolina State who helped name Siats in 2013 and Moros in...

USA Dinosaurs Cretaceous Theropods

7.6 Good

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Daniel Chure

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7.2 Good