Best Vertebrate
Robert Bakker is an American paleontologist, born in 1945, who helped revolutionize the field of dinosaur science. He was a major proponent of the theory that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, highly active creatures rather than sluggish reptiles. Bakker popularized this view to a wide audience through h...
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...
Edwin H. Colbert (1905–2001) was an American paleontologist who spent most of his career at the American Museum of Natural History. In 1969 he discovered fossils of the dicynodont Lystrosaurus in Antarctica's Transantarctic Mountains, finding the same genus in rocks on other southern continents. The...
Luis Chiappe is an Argentine-American paleontologist based at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He is known for his extensive research on Mesozoic birds, tracing their evolutionary origins from theropod dinosaurs. As the author of "Glorified Dinosaurs" (2007) and the director of the...
