Dr. Lindsay Zanno is the head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Associate Research Professor at North Caroling State University. She holds a joint curatorial/professorial appointment in North Carolina and research affiliations with the Field Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum of Utah, Sam Noble Museum, Stellenbosch University, and the University of Witwatersrand. She also presides over The Jurassic Foundation, a non-profit organization funding dinosaur research.

Dr. Zanno’s science is broad, blending field discoveries, systematics, quantitative approaches and cutting-edge technologies to reconstruct the lost biodiversity and paleobiology of dinosaurs — from transitions in reproduction, diet and growth, to the impact of climate change on Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems.

She has nearly 30 years of global expedition experience in places across Asia and Africa, yet maintains a soft spot for the American West from where she’s described many new species, among them the bird-like theropods Talos and Hagryphus, scythe-clawed therizinosaur Nothronychus, megapredator Siats, and Moros, North America’s tiniest tyrannosaur.