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Dinosaurs are just for boys
It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from . . . dinosaurs are for everyone! Some people might think only boys like dinosaurs, but in fact, some of the greatest dinosaur palaeontologists working today are women!
Susie Maidment
Verónica Díez Díaz
Susie is a British palaeontologist who researches stegosaurs and their relatives at the Natural History Museum, London. Her favourite place to do fieldwork is Utah in the USA for the beautiful natural environment. (And also for amazing breakfast burritos!)
Yara Haridy
Sanaa is an Egyptian vertebrate palaeontologist who helped discover MANSOURASAURUS,
a sauropod from the Cretaceous of Africa. (Which was the first time in the history of Egypt there was an Egyptian team unearthing an Egyptian dinosaur!)
Jingmai O’Connor
Verónica is a Spanish palaeontologist
who uses computer simulations to work out how the enormous sauropod dinosaurs moved. She also plays the trombone . . . and the banjo!
Pia Viglietti
Cecilia is an Argentinian palaeontologist who studies some of the earliest giant dinosaurs from the Triassic period.
Sarah Keenan
Yara is an Egyptian palaeontologist who grew up in Canada. She studies how bones and teeth evolved and how dinosaurs healed after being injured. She loves to hike and go birdwatching.
Jingmai is an American-born palaeontologist who works in China on some of the earliest birds and their dinosaur relatives. She has two dogs and loves to sing Irish folk songs.
Pia is a South African palaeontologist who works on fossil sites in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, and many other countries in Africa, where she tries to better understand the world at the end of the Triassic period.
Sarah is an American palaeontologist and geochemist who studies how bones turn into fossils. She once found
a TRICERATOPS which
she, obviously, nicknamed TriSarahTops.
Sanaa El−Sayed El−Bassiouni
Cecilia Apaldetti