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Xijun Ni is a Chinese paleontologist whose research concerns mammalian evolution and the fossil record of early mammals. His work includes the discovery of some of the oldest known basal primate fossils in China, providing evidence relevant to the early history of primate lineages. The research is o...
Timothy Flannery is an Australian paleontologist, mammalogist, author, and environmentalist whose scientific work focuses on fossil mammals and mammal evolution in Australia and New Guinea. His doctoral research concerned the evolution of kangaroos, and his work at the Australian Museum described fo...
Jørn Harald Hurum is a Norwegian vertebrate paleontologist and professor at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo. His research and fieldwork include Mesozoic marine reptiles from Svalbard, including plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, as well as Cretaceous mammals and dinosaurs. In 2009, h...
Otodus obliquus is an extinct species of large shark from the family Otodontidae that lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs. It is known primarily from fossil teeth, which are broad, triangular, and smooth-edged with small side cusps on the base. The species was a large pelagic predator and i...
