Edwin H. Colbert
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Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author.
Colbert in the 1960s
A dinosaur family tree from Colbert's The Dinosaur Book: The Ruling Reptiles and their Relatives (1945).
John Ostrom
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John Harold Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a "dinosaur renaissance".
Edwin H. Colbert
…at Columbia in the same year, and would go on to be appointed as a graduate professor. His students and mentees at Columbia included Stephen J. Gould, John Ostrom, and Dale Russell. Colbert returned to Nebraska again to collect from the White River Badlands in 1941 with an AMNH expedition. After World War II…
John Ostrom and Deinonychus skeleton cast. Photo courtesy Yale University.
Deinonychus FMNH White Background
Skeleton of the hadrosaur Anatosaurus (now E. annectens) paratype YPM 2182 at the Yale University Museum showing its upright posture.
Ostromia crassipes, previously known as the Haarlem Archaeopteryx