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1957–2025 United States

Mark Norell (July 26, 1957 – September 9, 2025) was an American paleontologist and molecular geneticist, acknowledged as one of the most important living vertebrate paleontologists. He was recently the chairman of paleontology and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Random Mark Norell quote

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We have as much evidence that T. rex was feathered, at least during some stage of its life, as we do that australopithecines like Lucy had hair.

B. Keim (2012)

The more that we learn about these animals the more we find that there is basically no difference between birds and their closely related dinosaur ancestors like velociraptor. Both have wishbones, brooded their nests, possess hollow bones, and were covered in feathers. If animals like velociraptor were alive today our first impression would be that they were just very unusual looking birds.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Norell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.