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Also Known As John Harold Ostrom
Born February 18, 1928 • New York City • New York
Died July 16, 2005 (aged 77) • Litchfield • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study Archaeopteryx • Deinonychus • dinosaur
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Barnum Brown
American paleontologist
Edwin H. Colbert
American professor, curator, and paleontologist
Paul Sereno
American paleontologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
James Hall
American geologist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Charles Schuchert
American paleontologist
Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
William Diller Matthew
William Diller Matthew
Canadian-American paleontologist
Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist