Lowell dingus
Lowell Dingus (* 1951 ) is an American paleontologist.
Dingus received his doctorate in paleontology from the University of California in 1984 and worked for three years for the California Academy of Sciences on an exhibition on evolution and in 1987 at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in the vertebrate paleontology department. There he was involved in a ten-year project to renovate the exhibition of the fossil halls. He is the museum's research associate.
From 1991 to 1998 he was involved in excavations in search of dinosaurs of the AMNH in Mongolia (Gobi Desert, Ukhaa Tolgod ). In 1997 he and Luis M. Chiappe discovered a well-preserved sauropod nest in Patagonia . The first sauropod embryos were found there, with skin remains intact. He also excavated in China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region).
He has written books on dinosaurs for both adults and children, and works for the InfoQuest group on popularizing science, primarily evolution, geology and paleontology.
Fonts
- Hell Creek , Montana: America's Key to the Prehistoric Past , St. Martin's Press 2004
- with Luis M. Chiappe : Walking on eggs: the astonishing discovery of thousands of dinosaur eggs in the badlands of Patagonia , Scribner 2001
- with Chiappe, Rodolfo Coria Dinosaur eggs discovered! : unscrambling the clues , Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books 2008
- with Mark Norell : Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex , University of California Press 2011
- with Timothy Rowe: Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds , Timothy Rowe 1997
- Next of Kin: Great Fossils at the American Museum of Natural History , Rizzoli 1996
- with Norell, Gaffrey Discovering dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History , Knopf 1995
For children and teenagers:
- with Mark Norell, Eugene S. Gaffney Discovering Dinosaurs: evolution, extinction and the lessons of prehistory , A. Knopf 1995
- with Mark Norell: Searching for Velociraptor , Harper Collins 1997
- with Mark Norell A nest of dinosaurs: the story of Oviraptor , Doubleday / Random House 1999
- with Chiappe: The tiniest giants: discovering dinosaur eggs , Random House 1999
- What color is that dinosaur? , Brookfield: Millbrook Press 1994
Web links
- Website at the AMNH
- Literature by and about Lowell Dingus in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to Viaf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dingus, Lowell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |