Angela Milner

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Angela C. Milner (* 1947 ) is a British vertebrate - paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. She is mainly concerned with dinosaurs and fossil birds.

As a teenager, Milner collected plants and watched birds. She has been with the Vertebrate Paleontology Department of the Museum of Natural History since 1976. There she organized, among other things, the presentation of the dinosaurs. At the time of her retirement, she was Deputy Keeper of the Paleontology Department and Head of the Vertebrate Paleontology Department. Milner has a PhD.

In 1986 she and Alan Charig described the dinosaur Baryonyx , a fish-eating spinosaurid , the remains of which are counted among the best-preserved theropod finds in Europe. She collected other fossil evidence in China and the Sahara, among others. She also examined the fossilized brain of Archeopteryx using computed tomography, with the result that the inner ear and brain reveal a relationship with modern birds. Further such investigations followed in fossil birds from the Eocene of southern England. Furthermore, they dealt with tetrapods from the carbon .

Milner also wrote books on dinosaurs for children. She has appeared frequently on television shows in Great Britain, particularly on dinosaurs, since the 1980s, for example on BBC Horizon. She often expressed herself in public debates, especially on the problem of private collection of (dinosaur) fossils.

Fonts

  • Dino-Birds , British Museum 2002
  • with Rosemary McDonald, Kathy Gerrard (editors): Dinosaurs , Barnes and Noble 2006
  • with others: The Natural History Museum Book of Dinosaurs
  • with David Norman Dinosaur , Knopf 1989
  • Adapted from C. Tung Dinosaurs from China , 1988
  • with Tim Gardom Dinosaurs: how they lived - why they died out , Bassermann 1993
  • Picture arches of the dinosaurs: an overview of the 100 most important dinosaurs - from the Triassic to the Cretaceous Period , Munich, Ars Edition 1992
  • with Alan Charig Baryonyx walkeri, a fish-eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey , Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London 53, 1997, pp. 11-70

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charig, Milner Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur , Nature 324, 1986, pp. 359-361
personal data
SURNAME Milner, Angela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milner, Angela C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947