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Paleontologists & Other Related Scientists and Artists
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William Conybeare
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Mary Anning
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William Buckland
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Gideon Mantell
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Richard Owen
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Joseph Leidy
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Charles Darwin
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Othniel Charles Marsh
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Edward Drinker Cope
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Eugene Dubois
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W. W. Orcutt
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
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Charles Walcott
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Ernst Stromer
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Othenio Abel (1875-1946)
From: Vienna, Austria
Specialty: Fossil Vertebrates
Known For: 'Founding' the science of Paleobiology; the study of how long extinct organisms lived.
From: Vienna, Austria
Specialty: Fossil Vertebrates
Known For: 'Founding' the science of Paleobiology; the study of how long extinct organisms lived.
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Roy Chapman Andrews
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Robert T. Bakker
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Barnum Brown
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Kenneth Carpenter
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Philip J. Currie
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Peter Dodson
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William Abler (1955-present)
Specialty: Theropod Teeth, Vertebrate Paleontology
Known for: Hypothesizing that Tyrannosaurs, namely Tyrannosaurus, held infectious saliva in their mouths that helped to kill their prey, this hypothesis has yet to be proven.
Specialty: Theropod Teeth, Vertebrate Paleontology
Known for: Hypothesizing that Tyrannosaurs, namely Tyrannosaurus, held infectious saliva in their mouths that helped to kill their prey, this hypothesis has yet to be proven.
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Emiliano Aguirre Enríquez (1925-present)
From: Ferrol, Spain
Specialty: Paleoanthropology
Known for: Beginning the study of Atapuerca sites.
From: Ferrol, Spain
Specialty: Paleoanthropology
Known for: Beginning the study of Atapuerca sites.
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Gustava Aigner (1906-1987)
From: Austria
Specialty: Geology and general paleontology
Known for: Making the first discovery of graptolites in the northern Greywacke zone
From: Austria
Specialty: Geology and general paleontology
Known for: Making the first discovery of graptolites in the northern Greywacke zone
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Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (1860-1917)
From: Russia
Specialty: Vertebrate Paleontology
Known for: The discovery and excavation of the famous Late Permian fossil vertebrate fauna from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European Russia.
From: Russia
Specialty: Vertebrate Paleontology
Known for: The discovery and excavation of the famous Late Permian fossil vertebrate fauna from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European Russia.
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Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950)
From: USA
Specialty: Paleontology
Known for: She established the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and financed their collections and a series of paleontological expeditions to the western United States.
From: USA
Specialty: Paleontology
Known for: She established the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and financed their collections and a series of paleontological expeditions to the western United States.
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John Alroy (1966-present)
From: USA
Specialty: Paleobiology
Known for: Diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, connecting regional and local diversity, taxonomic composition, body mass distributions, ecomorphology, and phylogenetic patterns to intrinsic diversity dynamics, evolutionary trends, mass extinctions, and the effects of global climate change.
From: USA
Specialty: Paleobiology
Known for: Diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine invertebrates, connecting regional and local diversity, taxonomic composition, body mass distributions, ecomorphology, and phylogenetic patterns to intrinsic diversity dynamics, evolutionary trends, mass extinctions, and the effects of global climate change.
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Florentino Ameghino (1854-1911)
From: Argentina
Specialty: Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology
Known for: Leading pioneer in the development of phylogenetics and of the paleontological approach of evolutionary biology.
From: Argentina
Specialty: Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology
Known for: Leading pioneer in the development of phylogenetics and of the paleontological approach of evolutionary biology.
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Elaine Anderson (1936-2002)
From: USA
Specialty: Vertebrate Paleontology
Known for: Work in mammalian megafauna paleontology
From: USA
Specialty: Vertebrate Paleontology
Known for: Work in mammalian megafauna paleontology
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