 One of the World's Leading Paleontologists
Matthew Lamanna was a member of the paleontological team that surfaced a giant dinosaur buried in Egypt. His research received coverage in many major national publications and programs, including CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, NPR, the BBC, National Geographic, the McNeil-Lehrer Newshour and the Associated Press. An article about the find appeared in the journal Science.
In 2006, Lamanna, while on a dig in the Gansu Province of China, discovered a new species of waterfowl, an ancestor to today's modern birds. The creature, named Gansus yumenensis is one of the oldest members of a family tree that leads to the modern duck. This 110 million year old creature received wide-spread attention in the media, including coverage in The New York Times, The London Telegraph, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and publication in the journals Science and Scientific American.
Lamanna recieved a Ph.D. in the department of earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania, received a B.S. with high honors in geoscience and biology from Hobart College in 1997, and an M.S. in earth and environmental science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. Currently he works with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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