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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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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...

Modern USA Dinosaurs Paleobiology

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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Zhonghe Zhou

Zhonghe Zhou is a paleontologist specializing in the study of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds. His work focuses on fossil...

China Dinosaurs Birds Cretaceous

8.7 Great

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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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Fernando Novas

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

Argentina Dinosaurs Cretaceous Theropods

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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Alexander Kellner

Alexander Kellner is a prominent Brazilian paleontologist and director of the National Museum of Brazil, internationally...

Brazil Dinosaurs Cretaceous 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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Jeffrey A. Wilson

Jeffrey A. Wilson is an American paleontologist at the University of Michigan, known for sauropod phylogeny and co-namin...

USA Dinosaurs Cretaceous Sauropods

8.2 Great

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Jingmai O'Connor

Jingmai O'Connor is an American paleontologist at Chicago's Field Museum, noted for research on Cretaceous birds and ena...

USA Dinosaurs Birds Cretaceous

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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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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Tyler Lyson

Tyler Lyson is an American paleontologist at the Denver Museum, known for finding the Dakota hadrosaur in 1999 and study...

USA Dinosaurs Cretaceous Turtles

7.4 Good

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Robert DePalma

Robert DePalma is an American paleontologist known for leading work at Tanis, a North Dakota fossil site reported in 201...

USA Dinosaurs Cretaceous Tanis

5.6 Mediocre