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Mary Higby Schweitzer is an American paleontologist noted for her groundbreaking research discovering original biomolecules and soft tissues preserved within Tyrannosaurus rex fossil bones.
Jakob Vinther is a Danish paleontologist known for palaeocolour research, using fossil melanosomes to reconstruct Anchiornis plumage in 2010.
Maria McNamara is an Irish paleontologist at University College Cork, noted for fossil color and soft-tissue preservation, and elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2024.
Patrick J. Orr is an Irish paleontologist at University College Dublin, known for taphonomy work including a 1998 Science study of Burgess Shale preservation.
Softhead Grenadier (Malacocephalus laevis) is a deep-sea rattail of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans notable for its unusually soft, loose skin relative to other grenadiers.
