My Top 10 Palaeontologists

Galvasean

Let's just say some of them are peculiar... :pac:

http://www.krank.ie/category/sci/top-10-palaeontologists/

Rubecula

I am not sure Peculiar quite covers it

Adam Khor

Fun read :B I didn`t know Cope was such a racist old man... although I guess that was the usual back in the day. I have a book in which its said that Marsh actually would refer to Cope as the "Monstrum horrendum" :pac:

But hey, what about the crazy-ass Transylvanian Baron Franz Nopcsa, who was not only a paleontologist but also tried to become king of a country, or Paul Sereno who has given us some of the weirdest and craziest dinos of the last decades?

PS- I really hope you were joking when you said that palaeontologists are even more awesome than the dinosaurs themselves--- :eek:

Galvasean

Adam Khor wrote: »

But hey, what about the crazy-ass Transylvanian Baron Franz Nopcsa, who was not only a paleontologist but also tried to become king of a country

I have never heard of him before, but he sounds awesome!

, or Paul Sereno who has given us some of the weirdest and craziest dinos of the last decades?

He's far too psychologically bbalanced for my liking :P

PS- I really hope you were joking when you said that palaeontologists are even more awesome than the dinosaurs themselves--- :eek:

Well, maybe Bakker...


There was also Thomas Jefferson, palaeontologist / United States President.

Adam Khor

You could also argue that Leonardo Da Vinci was the first paleontologist (even before paleontology was a thing)... and he was definitely crazy :pac:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html