Top Results for Pterosaurs

Michael Habib is an American paleontologist and biomechanist who has conducted extensive research on the flight mechanics of extinct vertebrates. He is most widely recognized for proposing the quadrupedal launch hypothesis, which posits that giant pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus used their strong for...

Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia is an Italian vertebrate paleontologist known for his extensive research on prehistoric reptiles. His primary area of expertise lies in the study of Triassic and Cretaceous pterosaurs, particularly those discovered in the Adriatic region and Italy. He has described and name...

David Unwin is a British paleontologist and author who specializes in the study of pterosaurs, the extinct flying reptiles of the Mesozoic era. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of pterosaur anatomy, phylogeny, and reproductive biology, notably through his research on exceptional...

Jørn Harald Hurum is a Norwegian vertebrate paleontologist and professor at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo. His research and fieldwork include Mesozoic marine reptiles from Svalbard, including plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, as well as Cretaceous mammals and dinosaurs. In 2009, h...

David Martill is a British vertebrate paleontologist and professor at the University of Portsmouth. His research includes dinosaurs, pterosaurs, fossil fishes, and other vertebrates, with extensive work on fossils from the Cretaceous deposits of northeastern Brazil, particularly the Santana Group. H...

Kevin Padian is an American paleontologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the evolution of vertebrates, particularly the origins of flight in pterosaurs and the evolutionary transition from theropod dinosaurs to birds. He also...

Alexander Kellner is a Brazilian paleontologist and the director of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. He is internationally recognized for his extensive fieldwork and research focused on pterosaurs, the extinct flying reptiles of the Mesozoic era. Over his career, Kellner has describe...

Junchang Lü was a Chinese paleontologist and professor at the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences who lived from 1965 to 2018. He specialized in Mesozoic reptiles and described and named dozens of dinosaur and pterosaur taxa, including Heyuannia, Darwinopterus, Qianzho...

Wang Xiaolin is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist associated with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research has concentrated on Cretaceous pterosaurs, birds, dinosaurs, and fossil assemblages from China, particularly the Jehol B...

David M. Martill is a British vertebrate paleontologist and a reader in paleobiology at the University of Portsmouth. His research focuses primarily on the paleobiology of pterosaurs and the exceptional preservation of fossil fishes, particularly within the Cretaceous period. He is widely recognized...

Darren Naish is a British vertebrate paleontologist, author, and science communicator whose work covers dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles, birds, and other tetrapods. He founded the Tetrapod Zoology blog in 2006 and later developed it into books and a podcast, using the project to discuss both...

Mark P. Witton is a British paleontologist, author, and paleoartist whose research and visual reconstructions focus especially on pterosaurs. Affiliated with the University of Portsmouth, he has published scientific work on the anatomy, functional morphology, ecology, and life appearance of extinct...

Lü Junchang was a Chinese paleontologist whose research focused on pterosaurs and feathered dinosaurs, especially fossils from the Mesozoic Era. He participated in the description of numerous taxa and became widely associated with Gigantoraptor erlianensis, a very large oviraptorosaur described in 2...

Taissa Rodrigues is a Brazilian paleontologist and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Vitória. Her research and teaching concern paleontology, with particular attention to pterosaurs, the extinct flying reptiles of the Mesozoic Era. Sh...

David Hone is a British paleontologist, writer, and researcher associated with Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on the behavior and ecology of non-avian dinosaurs, especially carnivorous theropods, as well as pterosaurs and other extinct archosaurs. He has published research on...

Nicholas Longrich is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist affiliated with the University of Bath. His research uses fossils to study extinction, adaptive radiation, biogeography, and the evolution of dinosaurs, birds, pterosaurs, reptiles, and humans. He was associated with the description of...