Best Theropods
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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...
Rinchen Barsbold was a Mongolian paleontologist who founded Oviraptoridae in 1976 and became a leading authority on Gobi theropods.
Halszka Osmólska was a Polish paleontologist of Mongolian dinosaurs who co-named the giant-armed theropod Deinocheirus in 1970.
Philip J. Currie is a Canadian paleontologist, former Royal Tyrrell curator, known for theropod research and Alberta dinosaur fieldwork.
Fernando Novas is an Argentine paleontologist at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum who co-discovered unusual dinosaurs like the sickle-clawed Buitreraptor in 2005.
Mark Norell is an American paleontologist at the AMNH, known for Mongolian expeditions and fossils linking theropod dinosaurs with birds.
Rodolfo Coria is an Argentine paleontologist famous for co-describing some of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, including the giant theropod Giganotosaurus in 1995.
Steve Brusatte is an American paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, known for dinosaur evolution studies and tyrannosaur research.
Matthew Carrano is an American paleontologist at the Smithsonian, noted for dinosaur macroevolution and a 2012 phylogeny of theropod Tetanurae.
Thomas R. Holtz Jr. is an American paleontologist at the University of Maryland, noted for tyrannosaur systematics and dinosaur classification.
Oliver Rauhut is a German vertebrate paleontologist in Munich, known for Mesozoic dinosaurs and naming the Jurassic theropod Wiehenvenator in 2016.
Lindsay Zanno is an American theropod paleontologist at North Carolina State who helped name Siats in 2013 and Moros in 2019.
Daniel Chure is a vertebrate paleontologist noted for Dinosaur National Monument work; he and colleagues named the sauropod Abydosaurus in 2010.
Juan Porfiri is an Argentine paleontologist associated with the Universidad Nacional del Comahue who notably co-authored the description of the large theropod Megaraptor in 1998.
