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    • The 12 Most Influential Paleontologists

    THESE PALEONTOLOGISTS AND FOSSIL HUNTERS CHANGED DINOSAUR HISTORY

    If it weren't for the concerted efforts of literally thousands of paleontologists, evolutionary biologists and geologists, we wouldn't know nearly as much about dinosaurs as we do today.

    Below you'll find profiles of 12 dinosaur hunters, from all around the world, who have made outsized contributions to our knowledge about these ancient beasts.

    Luis Alvarez (1911-1988)

    By training, Luis Alvarez was a physicist, not a paleontologist--but that didn't stop him from theorizing about a meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and then (with his son, Walter) discovering actual evidence for the actual impact crater on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, in the form of scattered remnants of the element iridium.

    For the first time, scientists possessed a cogent explanation for why the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago--which, of course, hasn't prevented