John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's...

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...

Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated...

Deinonychus have been found much farther east in Maryland. Paleontologist John Ostrom's study of Deinonychus in the late 1960s revolutionized the way scientists...

some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). Along with his mentor John Ostrom, Bakker was responsible for initiating the ongoing "dinosaur renaissance"...

archaeologists to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. Yale paleontologist John Ostrom, who reintroduced the theory of bird evolution from dinosaurs after his...

review of the remains that disagreed with the taxonomic conclusions. John Ostrom described another good specimen (FMNH P27393) from New Mexico as P. cyrtocristatus...

twentieth century. This new view of dinosaurs was championed particularly by John Ostrom, who argued that birds evolved from coelurosaurian dinosaurs, and Robert...

years ago. It contains two species, Tenontosaurus tilletti (described by John Ostrom in 1970) and Tenontosaurus dossi (described by Winkler, Murry, and Jacobs...

Deinonychus range. Crichton met with the discoverer of Deinonychus, John Ostrom, several times at Yale University to discuss details of the animal's...

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...

Ostromia (Thick feet of John Ostrom) is a genus of anchiornithid theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Painten Formation of Germany. The genus contains...

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...

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...

but in 1903, Franz Nopcsa concluded that it was a lizard. In 1978, John Ostrom identified the remains as belonging to a lizard of the genus Bavarisaurus...

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...

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...

the remains were found. The specific name, ostrommaysi, is in honor to John Ostrom for his investigations on Deinonychus and its relationships to birds...

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...

dinosaur was described and named Deinonychus by John Ostrom of Yale University. The next year, Ostrom redescribed a specimen of Pterodactylus in the Dutch...

dinosaur that he christened Utahraptor ostrommaysi -- ostrom for Yale University scientist John Ostrom and maysi for his boss. "I just threw 'Mays' on there;...

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...

found to be inconsistent with corresponding impressions on the slab. John Ostrom thoroughly described the German specimen as well as the newly discovered...

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...

Expedition. Dromaeosaur research was fairly quiet until the 1960s, when John Ostrom described the new genus and species Deinonychus antirrhopus. This discovery...

fast, and closely related to birds. Robert Bakker's illustration for John Ostrom's 1969 monograph, showing the dromaeosaurid Deinonychus in a fast run...

specimen as a different genus, Archaeornis. American paleontologist John Ostrom later identified the structure as part of the right coracoid based on...

paleontologists and dinosaur enthusiasts. In the 1960s, paleontologist John Ostrom began work on the theropod Deinonychus. His findings, which were expanded...

species due to Paul's belief that many dinosaur genera should be combined. John Ostrom, who discovered Deinonychus, was also consulted by Crichton for the novel...

1964, another very important work would be published, this time by John H. Ostrom. It challenged the idea that hadrosaurs were semi-aquatic animals, which...