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Blaire Van Valkenburgh is an American paleontologist and paleobiologist who served as a professor at UCLA. Her research focuses on the functional morphology, ecology, and evolution of extinct and living carnivorous mammals, particularly examining how their skeletal structures relate to feeding behav...
John J. Flynn is an American vertebrate paleontologist who serves as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His research focuses primarily on the evolution of mammals, particularly the fossil record of carnivores and the biogeography of extinct South American species. He is...
Lars Werdelin is a Swedish paleontologist affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History. He is recognized for his extensive research on the evolutionary history of fossil carnivorans, with a particular focus on the origins and diversification of African cats and hyenas. His fieldwork and phy...
Richard Tedford was an American vertebrate paleontologist who spent much of his career at the American Museum of Natural History. His extensive research on fossil carnivorans produced a systematic history of North American canids and mammals. He was a leading authority on the Cenozoic era, helping t...
Richard H. Tedford was an American paleontologist long associated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was highly regarded for his foundational research and extensive fieldwork concerning the evolution of Cenozoic mammals, with a particular focus on canids and other carnivoran...
Xiaoming Wang is a vertebrate paleontologist who serves as a curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on the fossil record and evolutionary history of canids, which includes dogs, wolves, and foxes. His research has significantly con...
Amy Atwater is an American paleontologist and science communicator; in 2017 she described new Eocene omomyine primates from California's Friars Formation.
