American paleontologists

Leo George Hertlein (1898 - 1972) was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leo George Hertlein"

Michael S. Engel is an entomologist and paleontologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published numerous papers in scientific journals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Michael S. Engel"

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler ( 1841- 1906) was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution. Shaler studied at Harvard under the legendary Louis Agassiz and would go on to become a Harvard fixture in his own right, as lecturer and professor of paleontology for two decades (1869-1888) and as professor of geology for nearly two more (1888-1906). In his later career he served as Harvard's Dean of Sciences and was one of the university's most popular teachers. He published scores of long and short treatises in his lifetime, with subjects ranging from topographical surveys to moral philosophy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nathaniel Shaler"

Dr. Niles Eldredge (born August 25, 1943) is an American paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. ...more on Wikipedia about "Niles Eldredge"

Oliver Perry Hay ( 22 May, 1846 – 2 November, 1930) was an American professor and paleontologist. In 1912, Hay was appointed as a research associate at the Carnegie Institute, and was given office space at the United States National Museum. There he did much work with the USNM's collections in vertebrate paleontology. The catalogs that he constructed were a great aid in recording existing knowledge and became standard references. His papers from 1911 to 1930 are stored at the Smithsonian Institution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oliver Perry Hay"

Othniel Charles Marsh ( October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899) was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West. ...more on Wikipedia about "Othniel Charles Marsh"

Paul C. Sereno (born October 11, 1967) is an American paleontologist who is the discoverer of several new dinosaur species on several continents. He is also a professor at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence." His most widely publicized discovery is that of a nearly complete specimen of Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, in the Tenere desert of Niger, at the site of Gadoufaoua. Sereno grew up in Naperville, Illinois. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Sereno"

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Peter J. Wagner (born 27 September 1964) is a paleontologist and associate Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. He received his Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences, from The University of Chicago in 1995. His research focuses on macroevolutionary issues, especially as regards the systematics, evolutionary dynamics, morphology, and distribution of Paleozoic Molluscs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter J. Wagner"

R.S. Lull was an American paleontologist from the early 20th century, who is largely remembered now for championing a Pre- Neo-Darwinian Synthesis view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unlock mysterious genetic drives that, over time, would lead populations to increasingly extreme phenotypes (and perhaps, ultimately, to extinction). ...more on Wikipedia about "R. S. Lull"

Robert L. Carroll (born May 5, 1938, Kalamazoo, Michigan) is a vertebrate paleontologist who specialises in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert L. Carroll"

Robert T. Bakker (Bob Bakker) (born March 24, 1945) in Bergen County, New Jersey, is an American paleontologist who has helped re-shape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were homeothermic (warm-blooded). His special field is the ecological context and behavior of dinosaurs. His book The Dinosaur Heresies first propelled him to popular attention. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert T. Bakker"

Roy Chapman Andrews ( January 26, 1884– March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer, naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History, primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs in the world to the museum. Many of Andrews's encounters and narrow escapes from death have been reported, including incidents with whales, sharks, pythons, and armed Chinese bandits. He was erroneously reported dead at least once. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roy Chapman Andrews"

Rudolf Ruedemann, Ph.D. (1864- ) was an American paleontologist, born at Georgenthal, Germany. He was educated in Europe at Jena (Ph.D., 1887), and at Strassburg (Ph.D., 1889) where he was an assistant in geology in 1887- 92. He emigrated to the United States and taught at the high schools of Lowville and Dolgeville, N. Y. ( 1892- 99), then became assistant State paleontologist. He investigated fossils of the Lower Silurian and many other fossils. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rudolf Ruedemann"

Samuel Wendell Williston (born July 10, 1852 in Boston; died August 30, 1918 in Chicago) was a noted educator and paleontologist. His family travelled to Kansas Territory in 1857 under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to help fight the extension of slavery. He was raised in Manhattan, Kansas, attended public school there, and graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College in 1872. ...more on Wikipedia about "Samuel Wendall Williston"

Spencer G. Lucas is a paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest. His research has taken him on field trips to in northern Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, and Georgia, and he conducted extensive field and museum research in China in the 1980s and 1990s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spencer G. Lucas"

Stephen Jay Gould ( September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation, which lead many authors to call him "America's unofficial evolutionist laureate." ...more on Wikipedia about "Stephen Jay Gould"

Sue Hendrickson was born December 2, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois. She later moved to Munster, Indiana where she grew up. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sue Hendrickson"

Ulysses S. Grant IV ( May 23, 1893 - March 11, 1977), the son of Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr. (and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant), was an American paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast. He was born at his father's farm, Merryweather Farm, in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to San Diego, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ulysses S. Grant IV"

Dr. Walter Hermann Bucher (March 12, 1889–February 17, 1965) was a German- American geologist and paleontologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Walter Hermann Bucher"

Wes Linster is known for discovering the first intact skeleton of " Bambiraptor" (Bambiraptor feinbergorum), which is suggested to be the most convincing evolutionary link yet between dinosaurs and birds. He made this discovery near Glacier National Park in Montana in the early 1990s, while in his early teens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wes Linster"

William Diller Matthew ( 1871 – 1930) was an American zoologist who worked exclusively on mammal fossils. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Diller Matthew"

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William J. Sanders is a vertebrate paleontologist and Research Scientist/Preparator at the University of Michigan. He has written a number of papers on fossil elephants. ...more on Wikipedia about "William J. Sanders"

William Parker Foulke was the discoverer of the first full dinosaur skeleton in North America ( Hadrosaurus foulkii), in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Parker Foulke"

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