Steve Brusatte
Paleontologist and science author
Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies dinosaur anatomy and evolution. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a New York Times bestseller.
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American Born 1984 in Ottawa, United States
About Steve Brusatte
Steve Brusatte grew up in the American Midwest and now holds a professorship at the University of Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Bristol and Columbia University in New York. Together with international colleagues, he has given names to over 15 previously unknown species, among them the tyrannosaur Qianzhousaurus and the raptor Zhenyuanlong. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018) was written for general readers and became a New York Times bestseller. He has also written The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (2022), The Story of Birds (2026) and the textbook Dinosaur Paleobiology (2012). He has worked as a paleontology consultant for the BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs and for the Jurassic World films. In April 2024 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.