• the novel Raptor Red, by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, is told from the perspective of an intelligent therapod dinosaur, Utahraptor?
• Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003?

Facts on topics related to Paleontologist

Fossil

• Alexander Wetmore assessed the extinct Eonessa anaticula as being an ancient type of duck, possibly due to its fossil's resemblance to the modern Oxyura jamaicensis?
• Conrad Gessner's 1551 book Historiae animalium is the first use of fossil illustrations (pictured)?
• fossil collectors often call Polyptychoceras vancouverensis the "paperclip ammonite" or the "candy cane", due to its shape?
• fossil evidence suggests that the palm tribe Cryosophileae evolved in the northern hemisphere and that its presence in South America reflects later migration southward?
• fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
• fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
• fossilised crinoid columnals from Lindisfarne which were strung together as a necklace or rosary became known as St Cuthbert's beads?
• fossils from the Paleocene-age Cerrejón Formation in Colombia are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforests?
• Fossil Cycad National Monument, established in South Dakota in 1922, was withdrawn as a national monument in 1956 because all of the visible fossils had been stolen?
• Orsten, fossil-bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?

Henry Fairfield Osborn

• Henry Fairfield Osborn almost doubled the size of Castle Rock, his father's Garrison, New York, mansion, to accommodate his family?