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Charles Doolittle Walcott

Charles Doolittle Walcott was a prominent American paleontologist renowned for his extensive research into invertebrate...

USA Historical Invertebrates Burgess Shale

9.3 Excellent

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John H. Ostrom

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

USA Raptors Dinosaurs Birds

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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Alfred Sherwood Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer was a prominent American paleontologist specializing in the study of vertebrates, particularly tet...

USA Historical Vertebrates Tetrapods

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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Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll is a paleontologist specializing in the study of early life during the Precambrian era. His research foc...

USA Early Life Precambrian Microfossils

9.1 Excellent

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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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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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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...

Modern USA Dinosaurs Paleobiology

8.8 Great

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Michel Brunet

Michel Brunet is a French paleontologist specializing in paleoanthropology. His work focuses on hominin evolution throug...

France Fieldwork Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.8 Great

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Joseph Leidy

Joseph Leidy was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist specializing in vertebrate fossils. He significantly a...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

8.7 Great

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Jacques Gauthier

Jacques Gauthier is an American vertebrate paleontologist whose 1986 cladistic work helped define Dinosauria and support...

USA Birds Cladistics Reptiles

8.6 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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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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Paul Sereno

Paul Sereno is an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago, noted for expeditions that described Eoraptor an...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Sahara

8.2 Great

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Per E. Ahlberg

Per E. Ahlberg is a Swedish paleontologist at Uppsala University, known for research on Devonian fishes and the origin o...

Sweden Devonian Fishes Tetrapods

8.1 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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James I. Kirkland

James I. Kirkland is an American paleontologist and Utah state paleontologist who co-named the giant dromaeosaur Utahrap...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Cretaceous

7.6 Good

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Kenneth Lacovara

Kenneth Lacovara is an American paleontologist who discovered the giant Patagonian titanosaur Dreadnoughtus, formally de...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Sauropods

7.2 Good