Most recently, he led a team that discovered the largest-known pterosaur from the Jurassic period. To date, Brusatte, who is Professor of Palaeontology and Evolution, has written more than 110 scientific papers and described 16 new species of fossil animals. In 2013, after completing his PhD at Columbia University and working as a researcher for the American Museum of Natural History, he joined the University of Edinburgh. There’s no doubt that there are many more palaeontologists around today because of those movies.”Īn artist's impression of what pterosaurs would have looked like - feathers and allįollowing his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, in 2006 Brusatte was awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship and completed an MSc in palaeobiology and earth sciences at the University of Bristol. The movie and sequels that followed have been so important for our field, opening up new opportunities and access to funding. “A lot of people of my generation would say Jurassic Park is what made them want to be a palaeontologist”, says Brusatte today. Already fascinated by dinosaurs, the film injects life into the wonders of the prehistoric world in ways Brusatte – indeed, no one – has never seen before. One of the millions of moviegoers whose imaginations are ignited by the spectacle is nine-year-old Steve Brusatte from Ottawa, Illinois, a small city just outside Chicago. The film becomes an instant, bonafide classic, and dinosaurs – for so long unconvincingly depicted on screen in wobbly stop motion animation – are propelled into the pop culture stratosphere. A visually stunning tale of cloned dinosaurs running amok in a futuristic island theme park, it captures the world’s imagination. Life-like dinosaurs roar and thunder across the big screen in Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster, Jurassic Park. By Corin Campbell, PR and Media Manager, Communications and Marketing
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