• John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's...
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    Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated...
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  • Look up ostrom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ostrom or Öström is a Swedish surname meaning "island stream". Many of the Ostroms in North America...
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    Deinonychus (category Taxa named by John Ostrom)
    Deinonychus have been found much farther east in Maryland. Paleontologist John Ostrom's study of Deinonychus in the late 1960s revolutionized the way scientists...
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    Robert T. Bakker (category Johns Hopkins University faculty)
    some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). Along with his mentor John Ostrom, Bakker was responsible for initiating the ongoing "dinosaur renaissance"...
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    Bambiraptor (category Taxa named by John Ostrom)
    archaeologists to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. Yale paleontologist John Ostrom, who reintroduced the theory of bird evolution from dinosaurs after his...
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    twentieth century. This new view of dinosaurs was championed particularly by John Ostrom, who argued that birds evolved from coelurosaurian dinosaurs, and Robert...
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    Deinonychus range. Crichton met with the discoverer of Deinonychus, John Ostrom, several times at Yale University to discuss details of the animal's...
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    review of the remains that disagreed with the taxonomic conclusions. John Ostrom described another good specimen (FMNH P27393) from New Mexico as P. cyrtocristatus...
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    Tenontosaurus (category Taxa named by John Ostrom)
    years ago. It contains two species, Tenontosaurus tilletti (described by John Ostrom in 1970) and Tenontosaurus dossi (described by Winkler, Murry, and Jacobs...
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    Ostromia (Thick feet of John Ostrom) is a genus of anchiornithid theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Painten Formation of Germany. The genus contains...
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    Sauropelta (category Taxa named by John Ostrom)
    greatly restricting mobility in both the neck and upper tail. Since John Ostrom first described Sauropelta in 1970, it has been recognized as a member...
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    remains ongoing. Several seminal studies led to this activity. First, John Ostrom discovered the bird-like dromaeosaurid theropod Deinonychus and described...
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    Microvenator (category Taxa named by John Ostrom)
    a partial pelvis, and partial hindlimbs. It was not until 1970 that John Ostrom described the type specimen as part of his work on the Cloverly Formation...
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    the remains were found. The specific name, ostrommaysi, is in honor to John Ostrom for his investigations on Deinonychus and its relationships to birds...
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    Latin avis "bird". The specific name, R. ostromi, was coined in honor of John Ostrom. The fossilized remains of Rahonavis were first recovered from the Maevarano...
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    individual variation within one (or two) species gained popularity. In 1986, John Ostrom and Peter Wellnhofer published a paper in which they proposed that there...
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    the association with the later material referred by von Huene. In 1982 John Ostrom claimed that SMNS 12352 and SMNS 12352a originated from a taxon different...
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    difference at the species level, naming a Coelurus hermanni, but in 1980 John Ostrom revived the genus. In his 1903 description, Osborn wrote that the length...
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    Pterodactylus crassipes in 1857 by Meyer. It was reclassified in 1970 by John Ostrom and is currently located at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands...
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    dinosaur was described and named Deinonychus by John Ostrom of Yale University. The next year, Ostrom redescribed a specimen of Pterodactylus in the Dutch...
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    fast, and closely related to birds. Robert Bakker's illustration for John Ostrom's 1969 monograph, showing the dromaeosaurid Deinonychus in a fast run...
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    specimen as a different genus, Archaeornis. American paleontologist John Ostrom later identified the structure as part of the right coracoid based on...
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    Expedition. Dromaeosaur research was fairly quiet until the 1960s, when John Ostrom described the new genus and species Deinonychus antirrhopus. This discovery...
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  • Vincent Alfred Ostrom (September 25, 1919 – June 29, 2012) was an American political economist and the Founding Director of the Ostrom Workshop based...
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  • dinosaur that he christened Utahraptor ostrommaysi -- ostrom for Yale University scientist John Ostrom and maysi for his boss. "I just threw 'Mays' on there;...
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  • Thomas Marshall Ostrom (March 1, 1936 – May 16, 1994) was a psychologist who helped further the study of social psychology. Prior to Ostrom, the field explored...
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    found to be inconsistent with corresponding impressions on the slab. John Ostrom thoroughly described the German specimen as well as the newly discovered...
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  • of the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, and Dr. John Ostrom of the Peabody Museum, in Peabody, Massachusetts. The sculptor, Louis...
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  • and measured were named Deinonychus and Microvenator by his successor John Ostrom. Around when McIntosh turned 19, the US entered World War II, and as...
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