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John Ostrom
American paleontologist (1928-2005) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 77
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".
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![Skeleton of the hadrosaur Anatosaurus (now E. annectens) paratype YPM 2182 at the Yale University Museum showing its upright posture.[30]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Transactions_of_the_Connecticut_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences_%281901%29_%2814783568452%29.jpg/1280px-Transactions_of_the_Connecticut_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences_%281901%29_%2814783568452%29.jpg)
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United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 2005 · aged 77
