Steve Brusatte

Steve Brusatte

Professor of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh

Steve Brusatte, PhD, is an American paleontologist who teaches at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. He is the author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Rise and Reign of the Mammals. The paleontology advisor on the Jurassic World film franchise, Brusatte has named more than fifteen new species, including the tyrannosaur “Pinocchio rex” (Qianzhousaurus) and the feathered and winged raptor Zhenyuanlong. His research and writing has been featured in Science, the New York Times, Scientific American, and many other publications.

Latest articles by Steve Brusatte

'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs

By Steve Brusatte published

In this excerpt from "The Story of Birds", author Steve Brusatte explores the moment where paleontologists realized they had critical evidence to show birds came from dinosaurs — a fluffy fossil from China.

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