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John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) 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 ".
May 3, 2024 · John Ostrom (born Feb. 18, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died July 16, 2005, Litchfield, Conn.) was an American paleontologist who popularized the theory that many species of dinosaurs were warm-blooded and ancestrally linked to birds.
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Jun 3, 2019 · Yale’s John Ostrom (1928-2005) proved them wrong. Fifty years ago, in Feb. 1969, Ostrom, then an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, published a paper describing a previously unknown dinosaur he dubbed Deinonychus, meaning “terrible claw” in Greek.
In the summer of 1970, early in the research that would radically transform how we think about birds, dinosaurs, and the origins of animal flight, Yale paleontologist John H. Ostrom was traveling through Europe studying pterosaur fossils.
Jul 21, 2005 · John Ostrom, the Yale paleontologist who almost single-handedly convinced the scientific community that birds are descended from dinosaurs and whose discoveries provided the underpinning for...
Jul 20, 2005 · Dr. John H. Ostrom, one of the most influential figures in 20th century dinosaur paleontology, died peacefully at The Sarah Pierce Assisted Living Community in Litchfield, CT, on July 16, 2005 of complications of Alzheimers Disease.
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Jul 21, 2005 · John H. Ostrom, a paleontologist influential in the revival of scientific research about dinosaurs, notably previously unsuspected clues to their speed and agility and their probable ancestral...
