Matt Lamanna
Matt Lamanna
Matthew Carl Lamanna is a paleontologist and the assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where he oversees the dinosaur collection...
dinosaur hottest topic transition
The dinosaur-bird transition is the hottest topic in dinosaur paleontology.
ancient creatures goal
We would like to go back there for years and years and years. Our goal is to know more about these creatures and to reconstruct their ancient ecosystem.
alongside birds dated lived million
We dated them at 110 million years old. These birds would have lived alongside dinosaurs.
exciting incredible knew needed pictures realized stuff
It was pretty exciting to see pictures of the stuff they found. I realized this was an incredible place, and knew we needed to try to get there.