As its name suggests, the human size animal is characterized by sharp-pointed claws and clutching hands. Years after, it was found out that this animal is a hundred and ten million year old dinosaur.
Alan Walker Key Contributions of Alan Walker in Paleontology He studied on the very first stages of human evolution, particularly in the different epochs Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene in the geologic time scale.
Basically, he focused mainly on data and fossils obtained from East Africa. In addition to this, Walker discovered hundreds of fossils which include: skeleton of a young Homo erectus and a skull of an Australopithecus. Henry Fairfield Osborn Key Contributions of Henry Osborn in Paleontology In the early 20th century, Osborn rose to fame after leading various fossil hunting expeditions and after training new vertebrate paleontologists in the Western United States.
Osborn also described and named several dinosaur species such as the Ornitholestes , Tyrannosaururs rex , Pentaceratops , and Velociraptor. Osborn also conducted several studies about the brains of T. James Hall Key Contributions of James Hall in Paleontology In this geosyncline principle, he discovered the main reason why a basin sinks—because of the gradual buildup of sediments forcing it to slowly subside.
Benjamin Franklin Mudge Louis Agassiz In particular, his contributions are the following: Key Contributions of John Horner in Paleontology He discovered that like any other animals, dinosaurs do nurture their young. He also found that they were social animals and some can be found in groups.
John Fleagle Key Contributions of John Fleagle in Paleontology He worked on the functional and comparative anatomy of primates from Asia and Africa. He also studied primate behavioral abilities and compared their ecological roles in their communities. Luis Alvarez Key Contributions of Luis Alvarez in Paleontology Together with his son named Walter and colleagues, Luis Alvarez proposed the reason why dinosaurs became extinct—an destructive asteroid the size of San Francisco that slammed into planet Earth.
Mary Anning Aside from that, the London Geological Society awarded her for discovering the fossil of Ichthyosaurus. He went on to become professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, to head its Lawrence Scientific School, and to found its Museum of Comparative John G. She is also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards. Jeremy Jackson. Jeremy Jackson is a marine ecologist, paleontologist and a professor.
Florentino Ameghino. Florentino Ameghino September 19, — August 6, was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers —Carlos and Juan— Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology. From until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino — who, between and , made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and Mary Anning.
Mary Anning 21 May — 9 March was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England. Her findings contributed to important changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
Anning searched for fossils in the area's Blue Lias cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. She nearly died in during a landslide that killed her dog, Tray. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving , and he developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere.
Although a monitum was issued in regard to some of Teilhard's ideas, he has been posthumously praised by Pope Benedict XVI and other eminent Catholic figures, and his theological teachings were cited by Pope Francis in the encyclical, Photo: Metaweb FB.
Edwin Harris Colbert. Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert September 28, — November 15, was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author.
His father was George H. Colbert who was head of the mathematics department at Northwest Missouri State University and had been at the college since its founding in He received his A. She became a noted artist, illustrator, Conrad Hal Waddington. Although his theory of genetic assimilation had a Darwinian explanation, leading evolutionary biologists including Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ernst Mayr considered that Waddington was using genetic assimilation to support so-called Lamarckian inheritance, the acquisition of inherited characteristics through the effects of the environment during an organism's lifetime.
Waddington had wide interests that included poetry and Frank Cottrell Boyce. Frank Cottrell-Boyce born 23 September is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Danny Boyle. Cottrell-Boyce has won two major British awards for children's books, the Carnegie Medal for Millions, which originated as a film script, and the Guardian Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, which was commissioned by a charity.
Michael S. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expeditions in Central Asia, Asia Minor, the Levant, Arabia, eastern Africa, the high Arctic, and South and North America, and has published more than papers in scientific journals and over new living and fossil species.
Some of Engel's research images were included in exhibitions on the aesthetic value of scientific imagery. David Grimaldi.
David Grimaldi may refer to: David Grimaldi entomologist born , American entomologist and curator David Grimaldi soccer born , retired American soccer defender David Grimaldi politician born , American businessman and politician Nathaniel Shaler.
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler February 20, — April 10, was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution. John Campbell Merriam. John Campbell Merriam October 20, — October 30, was an American paleontologist, educator, and conservationist.
The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, particularly with the genus Smilodon, more commonly known as the sabertooth cat.
He is also known for his work to extend the reach of the National Park Service. Geerat J. Vermeij born 28 September in Sappemeer , is a Dutch-born professor of geology at the University of California at Davis. Blind from the age of three, he graduated from Princeton University in and received his Ph. An evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, he studies marine molluscs both as fossils and as living creatures.
He started writing about his Escalation hypothesis in the s. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in Walter Hermann Bucher. He was born in Akron, Ohio to Swiss-German parents. The family then returned to Germany where he was raised.
In he was awarded a Ph. The same year he returned to the U. One focuses on evolution and the origins of the life and the universe. The other is a freshman literature class in which students read assigned texts and interpret them using imagination and a variety of mediums. We spatial thinkers have known failure our entire lives and have grown up without expectations, not from our teachers, often not from our parents, and sometimes not even from ourselves.
We are the people who most often follow our dreams, who think differently, spatially, inquisitively. Others created barriers, such as time-based reading and writing assignments, which also helped. Nevertheless, Horner is not keen on being labeled dyslexic. When not teaching or curating, Horner enjoys tinkering with model trains and poking around for fossils. Today, though, Cope is best known for his part in the Bone Wars , his ongoing feud with his archrival Othniel C.
Marsh see slide 10 , who was no slouch himself when it came to hunting down fossils. How bitter was this clash of personalities? Well, later in his career, Marsh saw to it that Cope was denied positions at both the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History! An inspiration to an entire generation of Chinese paleontologists, Dong Zhiming has spearheaded numerous expeditions to China's northwest Dashanpu Formation, where he has unearthed the remains of various hadrosaurs , pachycephalosaurs , and sauropods himself naming no fewer than 20 separate dinosaur genera, including Shunosaurus and Micropachycephalosaurus.
To many people, Jack Horner will forever be famous as the inspiration for Sam Neill's character in the first Jurassic Park movie. However, Horner is best known among paleontologists for his game-changing discoveries, including the extensive nesting grounds of the duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura and a chunk of Tyrannosaurus Rex with intact soft tissues, analysis of which has lent support to the evolutionary descent of birds from dinosaurs.
Lately, Horner has been in the news for his semi-serious scheme to clone a dinosaur from a live chicken, and, slightly less controversially, for his recent claim that the horned, frilled dinosaur Torosaurus was actually an unusually elderly Triceratops adult. Working in the late 19th century, Othniel C. Marsh secured his place in history by naming more popular dinosaurs than any other paleontologist—including Allosaurus , Stegosaurus , and Triceratops.
Today, however, he's best remembered for his role in the Bone Wars, his enduring feud with Edward Drinker Cope see slide 7. Thanks to this rivalry, Marsh and Cope discovered and named many, many more dinosaurs than would have been the case if they'd managed to coexist peacefully, greatly advancing our knowledge of this extinct breed.
Unfortunately, this feud also had a negative impact: so quickly and carelessly did Marsh and Cope erect various genera and species of dinosaurs that modern paleontologists are still cleaning up the mess. Far from the nicest person on this list, Richard Owen used his lofty position as superintendent of the vertebrate fossil collection at the British Museum, in the midth century to bully and intimidate his colleagues, including the eminent paleontologist Gideon Mantell.
Still, there's no denying the impact Owen has had on our understanding of prehistoric life; he was, after all, the man who coined the word "dinosaur," and he was also one of the first scholars to study Archaeopteryx and the newly discovered therapsids "mammal-like reptiles" of South Africa. Oddly enough, Owen was extremely slow to accept Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, perhaps jealous that he hadn't come up with the idea himself!
Marsh, but with a much nicer disposition, Paul Sereno has become the public face of fossil hunting for an entire generation of schoolchildren.
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