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Jennifer Clack

Jennifer Clack (1947–2020) was a prominent British paleontologist who specialized in the evolution of early tetrapods. B...

Historical British Devonian Vertebrates

9.68 Brilliant

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A. S. Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer studied vertebrate evolution with particular attention to the early history of animals that lived...

American Historical Paleozoic Vertebrates

9.65 Brilliant

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Zhe-Xi Luo

Zhe-Xi Luo is a Chinese American paleontologist and professor whose research focuses on the morphology and evolution of...

Evolution Anatomy Mammals Chinese American

9.58 Brilliant

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Harry Blackmore Whittington

Harry Blackmore Whittington was a British paleontologist known for his studies of trilobites and Cambrian fossils. As a...

Historical British Cambrian Burgess Shale

9.58 Brilliant

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George Cuvier

French naturalist Georges Cuvier helped establish extinction as a scientific fact by comparing fossil remains with the b...

French Historical Cenozoic Vertebrates

9.55 Brilliant

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Zhou Zhonghe

Chinese vertebrate paleontologist Zhou Zhonghe studies the origin and early evolution of birds, with particular attentio...

China Chinese Cretaceous Bird Evolution

9.51 Brilliant

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Hans Thewissen

Fieldwork in Pakistan and India helped Dutch-American paleontologist Hans Thewissen investigate how whales evolved from...

Evolution Mammals Dutch American Eocene

9.51 Brilliant

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Anna K. Behrensmeyer

Anna K. Behrensmeyer is an American paleontologist and curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natur...

American Africa Mammals Vertebrates

9.29 Excellent

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Susan Kidwell

Susan Kidwell is an American paleontologist and taphonomist recognized for her foundational work in understanding how bi...

American Conservation Invertebrates Taphonomy

9.18 Excellent

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Mary Schweitzer

Mary Higby Schweitzer is an American paleontologist and a professor at North Carolina State University, recognized for h...

American Dinosaurs Cretaceous Taphonomy

9.18 Excellent

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Michal Kowalewski

Michal Kowalewski is a Polish-American paleontologist and academic who serves as a curator at the Florida Museum of Natu...

Conservation Quantitative Invertebrates Polish American

8.79 Great

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Roger Smith

Roger M. H. Smith is a South African paleontologist known for Karoo Basin research on therapsid taphonomy and the end-Pe...

South African Permian Vertebrates Taphonomy

8.25 Great

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Ivan Yefremov

Ivan Yefremov was a Soviet paleontologist and science fiction writer renowned for his foundational contributions to both...

Historical Soviet Permian Vertebrates

8.14 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

8.12 Great

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Stephanie Drumheller

Stephanie Drumheller is an American paleontologist whose research focuses on taphonomy, the study of how organisms decay...

American Vertebrates Taphonomy Crocodylians

8.07 Great

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Kay Behrensmeyer

A. Kay Behrensmeyer is an American paleontologist and taphonomist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History....

USA Mammals Paleoecology Taphonomy

7.55 Good

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Mary Higby Schweitzer

Mary Higby Schweitzer is an American paleontologist and professor at North Carolina State University. She is recognized...

USA Molecular Dinosaurs Soft Tissue

7.55 Good

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Jakob Vinther

Jakob Vinther is a Danish paleontologist whose research examines exceptionally preserved fossils, animal evolution, and...

Britain Color Fossils Soft Tissue

7.53 Good

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Emily Rayfield

Emily Rayfield is a British paleontologist and professor of paleobiology at the University of Bristol. She is recognized...

Britain Fossils Dinosaurs Biomechanics

7.44 Good

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Maria McNamara

Maria McNamara is a paleontologist and professor at University College Cork in Ireland whose research focuses on fossil...

Ireland Color Taphonomy Soft Tissue

7.39 Good