Dinosaur Scientists

• Luis and Walter Alvarez
  
  
  • Found evidence for asteroid impact theory of dinosaur extinction.
  
  
  

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• Mary Anning
  
  
  • 19th century fossil hunter.
  • Found the first complete Ichthyosaur skeleton.
  • Found the first complete Plesiosaur.
  • Her fossil discoveries helped show that the Earth had once been inhabited by creatures that had subsequently gone extinct.
  
  
  
• Robert T. Bakker
  
  
  • Author of many books about dinosaurs.
  
  
  
• Barnum Brown
  
  
  • 20th century fossil hunter and scientist.
  • Found the first Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  
  
  
• William Buckland
  
  
  • Wrote the first scientific description of a dinosaur.
  
  
  
• Edward D. Cope
  
  
  • 19th century fossil hunter and scientist.
  
  
  

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• Charles Darwin
  
  
  • Proposed theory of evolution by Natural Selection.
  
  
  
• Niles Eldredge
  
  
  • Proposed theory of Punctuated Equilibria (jointly with Stephen Jay Gould).
  
  
  
• Stephen Jay Gould
  
  
  • Proposed theory of Punctuated Equilibria (jointly with Niles Eldredge).
  • Wrote many popular science books.
  
  
  
• John R. Horner
  
  
  • Discovered and named Maiasaura.
  • Served as technical advisor to the Jurassic Park movies.
  
  
  
• Lawrence Lambe
  
  
  • Geologist and Paleontologist of the Geological Survey of Canada.
  • Discovered and named many types of dinosaurs.
  • Studied a variety of other prehistoric animals.
  
  
  
• Othniel C. Marsh
  
  
  • 19th century fossil hunter and scientist.
  • Described Apatosaurus and Allosaurus.
  
  
  
• Henry Fairfield Osborn
  
  
  • Proposed concept of Adaptive Radiation.
  • Described Tyrannosaurus Rex.
  
  
  

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• Sir Richard Owen
  
  
  • Coined the term "dinosauria".
  • Helped create the first full-size dinosaur reconstructions.
  • Helped found the Natural History Museum in London.
  
  
  
  
  
• Harry Seeley
  
  
  • Classified dinosaurs into two subdivisions: Ornithischians and Saurischians.
  • Wrote an important work on Pterosaurs (Dragons of the Air).
  
  
  

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