Top Results for Theropods

John Ostrom (1928–2005) was an American paleontologist whose work fundamentally altered modern paleontology and evolutionary biology. In 1969, he described the predatory dinosaur "Deinonychus," sparking a major revision of how dinosaurs were perceived in terms of their activity levels and metabolism...

Thomas Holtz is an American paleontologist known for extensive research on theropod dinosaurs, particularly tyrannosauroids. He has also authored popular books on dinosaur evolution, giving his work an educational dimension alongside its research focus. His writing and scholarship are relevant to st...

Philip J. Currie is a prominent Canadian paleontologist recognized for his extensive research on theropod dinosaurs, particularly those from the Late Cretaceous period. He played a key role in the founding of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta and later became a professor at the Un...

Altangerel Perle is a Mongolian paleontologist known for his research on the dinosaur fossils of the Gobi Desert. He has co-described several theropod dinosaurs, including Erlikosaurus andrewsi, a therizinosaur, and Achillobator giganticus, a dromaeosaurid, both named from Late Cretaceous Mongolian...

Dale Russell was a Canadian paleontologist known for his research on theropod dinosaurs and the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. He famously co-created the speculative "dinosauroid" model in 1982 alongside Ron Séguin, which envisioned a humanoid evolutionary path for the dinosaur *Troodon*. Th...

Stephen L. Brusatte is an American vertebrate paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who serves as a professor at the University of Edinburgh. His extensive research focuses on the origins, anatomical evolution, and ultimate extinction of dinosaurs, with a particular emphasis on theropods and the...

Sergei Kurzanov is a Russian paleontologist associated with the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. During the 1970s and 1980s, he participated in extensive Soviet-Mongolian paleontological expeditions in the Gobi Desert. Kurzanov's research focused heavily on the...

Xu Xing is a leading paleontologist specializing in Chinese dinosaurs. His work has dramatically reshaped our understanding of dinosaur evolution. Notably, he identified and named numerous species, most famously Microraptor, a feathered theropod that provided crucial evidence for the link between di...

Jonah N. Choiniere is a vertebrate paleontologist and Professor of Comparative Palaeobiology at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His research concerns dinosaur evolution, especially theropods and their evolutionary relationships, and includes the des...

Philip J. Currie is a Canadian paleontologist born in 1949, known for his extensive fieldwork and discoveries in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Gobi Desert. He co-founded the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology and later became a professor at the University of Alberta. Currie is a reco...

Nizar Ibrahim is a German-Moroccan vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist whose research centers on fossil vertebrates from North Africa. He has led expeditions in the Sahara and has studied dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and crocodyliforms from the Kem Kem Group of Morocco. His work on Spinosa...

Andrea Cau is an Italian vertebrate paleontologist affiliated with the University of Bologna whose research centers on theropod dinosaur phylogenetics. He has published on the evolutionary relationships of maniraptoran and paravian theropods, and in 2017 he co-authored the description of Halszkarapt...

Paulina Carabajal is an Argentine vertebrate paleontologist who uses CT imaging to reconstruct the brains and sensory systems of extinct reptiles.

Ralph E. Molnar is an American-born paleontologist whose career has included extensive work on Australian vertebrate fossils. He served as curator of mammals at the Queensland Museum and has also been associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Texas Natural Science Center. His publicatio...

Yevgeny Maleev was a Soviet paleontologist recognized for his significant contributions to the study of Mongolian dinosaurs during the mid-20th century. Working at the Paleontological Institute in Moscow, he analyzed fossils from the Nemegt Basin and notably named the large tyrannosaurid Tarbosaurus...

Mignon Talbot was an American paleontologist who spent her career associated with Mount Holyoke College. In 1911, she achieved a historic milestone by describing Podokesaurus holyokensis, a fossil discovered in Massachusetts, which made her the first woman to name a non-avian dinosaur. Her work focu...

Yoichi Azuma is a Japanese paleontologist, geologist, and museum curator associated with the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. He served as its director and later special director, and he coauthored the 2003 description of Fukuisaurus tetoriensis, an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian. His research and...

Rinchen Barsbold was a pioneering paleontologist specializing in the dinosaurs of Mongolia. His extensive work in the Gobi Desert significantly advanced our understanding of theropod evolution, particularly through his foundational research on oviraptorosaurs beginning in 1976. He is most notably re...

Ronan Allain is a French paleontologist and zoologist affiliated with the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, where he studies fossil reptiles. His research primarily focuses on theropod and sauropod dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era. In 2012, he co-authored the description of *Ichthyovenat...

Mark A. Loewen is an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator at the Natural History Museum of Utah. His research concerns dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from the Mesozoic, with particular attention to tyrannosaurs and dinosaur evolution. He was part of the team that described Lythrona...

Halszka Osmólska (1930–2008) was a prominent Polish paleontologist associated with the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She specialized in the study of Mongolian dinosaurs, co-authoring significant research on theropods, oviraptorosaurs, and pachycephalosaurs. In 1970, sh...

Philip J. Currie is a Canadian paleontologist known for research on dinosaurs, particularly theropods and the evidence for their growth, behavior, and relationships. He worked as a curator at Alberta's Provincial Museum and later at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology before joining the Univer...

Fernando Novas is an Argentine paleontologist working at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires. He specializes in the study of Cretaceous-era theropod dinosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere, particularly their evolutionary link to modern birds. Novas is well-known for co-d...

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Maleev was a Soviet paleontologist whose work focused largely on fossil reptiles from Asia. As part of Soviet-Mongolian research in the Gobi Desert, he described the ankylosaur Talarurus and the tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus, and he named the family Therizinosauridae from enigmatic f...

Simone Maganuco is an Italian vertebrate paleontologist associated with research and scientific outreach on fossil reptiles and dinosaurs. He has coauthored studies of Spinosaurus, including work on a juvenile pedal ungual and research on material from Morocco, and he has collaborated with the Natur...

Karol Sabath was a Polish paleontologist, scientific illustrator, and writer whose work focused substantially on dinosaurs. He researched dinosaur eggs and reproduction, theropod anatomy, and other aspects of dinosaur biology, contributing both scholarly publications and visual reconstructions. Saba...

Mark Norell is an American paleontologist who serves as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History. He is recognized for his extensive fieldwork in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, which led to the discovery of important theropod dinosaur fossils. Norell's research focuses heavily on the evolut...

Rodolfo Coria is an Argentine paleontologist known for his extensive research on Cretaceous dinosaur fossils in Patagonia. In 1995, he co-described the giant theropod dinosaur Giganotosaurus with Leonardo Salgado, which was notably comparable in size to Tyrannosaurus rex. Throughout his career, he h...

Junchang Lü was a Chinese paleontologist and professor at the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences who lived from 1965 to 2018. He specialized in Mesozoic reptiles and described and named dozens of dinosaur and pterosaur taxa, including Heyuannia, Darwinopterus, Qianzho...