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Philip J. Currie

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Philip John Currie, (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. [1]

89 relations: Academic Press, Alberta, Alberta Order of Excellence, Albertavenator, Albertosaurus, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Animal, Antarctica, Archaeoraptor, Argentina, Barnum Brown, Beijing, Biology, Bird, Brampton, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Museum of Nature, Caudipteryx, Celebrity, Centrosaurus, China, Curator, Dale Russell, Diapsid, Dinosaur, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Diplodocid, Disney Publishing Worldwide, Dong Zhiming, Dover Publications, Dromaeosauridae, Drumheller, Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park, Earth science, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edmonton, Epichirostenotes, Feather, Feathered dinosaur, Festschrift, Frederick W. A. G. Haultain, Hypothesis, Indiana University Press, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Jurassic Park (film), Kenneth Carpenter, Lagerstätte, Late Cretaceous, Liaoning, List of Jurassic Park characters, ..., Maclean's, McGill University, Michel T. Halbouty, Mongolia, Museum, National Geographic, National Geographic Society, NRC Research Press, Origin of birds, Ottawa, Paleobotany, Paleontology, Palynology, Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, Philovenator, Pipestone Creek, Protarchaeopteryx, Quilmesaurus, Radio, Robert L. Carroll, Royal Alberta Museum, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Science fiction, Sinosauropteryx, Stenonychosaurus, Synapsid, Teeple Architects, Teratophoneus, Theropoda, Time (magazine), Troodon, Tyrannosauridae, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Toronto, Wembley, Alberta, Zdeněk Špinar. Expand index (39 more) »

Academic Press

Academic Press is an academic book publisher.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Alberta Order of Excellence

The Alberta Order of Excellence is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Albertavenator

Albertavenator is a genus of small troodontid theropod dinosaur, known from the early Maastrichtian in the Cretaceous period.

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Albertosaurus

Albertosaurus (meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is one of the world's largest professional geological societies with more than 35,000 members as of 2017.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Archaeoraptor

"Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil from China in an article published in ''National Geographic'' magazine in 1999.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brampton

Brampton is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Canadian Museum of Nature

The Canadian Museum of Nature (Musée canadien de la nature), formerly called the National Museum of Natural Sciences, official website.

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Caudipteryx

Caudipteryx (which means "tail feather") is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous Period (about 124.6 million years ago).

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Celebrity

Celebrity refers to the fame and public attention accorded by the mass media to individuals or groups or, occasionally, animals, but is usually applied to the persons or groups of people (celebrity couples, families, etc.) themselves who receive such a status of fame and attention.

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Centrosaurus

Centrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of Canada.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Dale Russell

Dale Alan Russell (born 27 December 1937) is an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.

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Diapsid

Diapsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes (temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosaur Provincial Park

Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two-and-a-half hours drive east of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; or, about a half-hour drive northeast of Brooks.

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Diplodocid

Diplodocids, or members of the family Diplodocidae ("double beams"), are a group of sauropod dinosaurs.

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Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), formerly known as The Disney Publishing Group and Buena Vista Publishing Group, is the publishing subsidiary of Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

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Dong Zhiming

Dong Zhiming (Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng; born January 1937), of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered theropod dinosaurs.

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Drumheller

Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada.

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Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park

Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park is a provincial park in Central Alberta, Canada, located about southeast of Red Deer and east of Trochu.

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Earth science

Earth science or geoscience is a widely embraced term for the fields of natural science related to the planet Earth.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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Edmonton

Edmonton (Cree: Amiskwaciy Waskahikan; Blackfoot: Omahkoyis) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Epichirostenotes

Epichirostenotes is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.

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Feathered dinosaur

For over 150 years, since scientific research began on dinosaurs in the early 1800s, dinosaurs were generally believed to be most closely related to squamata ("scaled reptiles"); the word "dinosaur", coined in 1842 by paleontologist Richard Owen, comes from the Greek for "fearsome lizard".

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Festschrift

In academia, a Festschrift (plural, Festschriften) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime.

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Frederick W. A. G. Haultain

Sir Frederick William Alpin Gordon Haultain (November 25, 1857 – January 30, 1942) was a lawyer and a long-serving Canadian politician and judge.

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Hypothesis

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (abbreviated to IVPP) of China is a prominent research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and pterosaur specimens (many from the Yixian Formation).

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Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen.

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Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter (born September 21, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan) is a paleontologist.

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Lagerstätte

A Lagerstätte (from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.

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List of Jurassic Park characters

The following is a list of fictional characters from Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, its sequel The Lost World, and their film adaptations, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canadian news magazine that was founded in 1905, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.

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McGill University

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Michel T. Halbouty

Michel Thomas Halbouty (21 June 1909 in Beaumont, Texas – 6 November 2004 in Houston, Texas) was an American geologist, petroleum engineer, and wildcatter.

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Mongolia

Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.

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Museum

A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO or) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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NRC Research Press

NRC Research Press is a scientific publisher in Canada.

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Origin of birds

The scientific question of within which larger group of animals birds evolved, has traditionally been called the origin of birds.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Paleobotany

Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany (from the Greek words paleon.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Palynology

Palynology is the "study of dust" (from palunō, "strew, sprinkle" and -logy) or "particles that are strewn".

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Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum is located in Wembley, Alberta.

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Philovenator

Philovenator (literally meaning "love hunter") is an extinct genus of troodontid paravian dinosaurs from the Wulansuhai Formation (dated to the Campanian age, sometime between 75 and 71 million years ago) of Inner Mongolia, China.

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Pipestone Creek

Pipestone Creek is a waterway that runs through central Alberta, Canada.

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Protarchaeopteryx

Protarchaeopteryx (meaning "before Archaeopteryx") is a genus of turkey-sized feathered theropod dinosaur from China.

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Quilmesaurus

Quilmesaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Patagonian Upper Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of Argentina.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Robert L. Carroll

Robert Lynn Carroll (born May 5, 1938) is a vertebrate paleontologist who specialises in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.

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Royal Alberta Museum

The Royal Alberta Museum (RAM) is a museum of human and natural history in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Royal Canadian Geographical Society

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) (French: La Société géographique royale du Canada; SRGC) is a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to imparting a broader knowledge and deeper appreciation of Canada — its people and places, its natural and cultural heritage and its environmental, social and economic challenges.

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Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; Société royale du Canada), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists.

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Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a Canadian tourist attraction and a centre of palaeontological research known for its collection of more than 130,000 fossils.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sinosauropteryx

Sinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing") is a compsognathid dinosaur.

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Stenonychosaurus

Stenonychosaurus (meaning "narrow claw lizard") is a genus of troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada.

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Synapsid

Synapsids (Greek, 'fused arch'), synonymous with theropsids (Greek, 'beast-face'), are a group of animals that includes mammals and every animal more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes.

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Teeple Architects

Teeple Architects is an architecture firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded by Stephen Teeple.

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Teratophoneus

Teratophoneus ("monstrous murderer" (Greek: teras, "monster" and phoneus, "murderer")) is a genus of carnivorous tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur which lived during the late Cretaceous period (late Campanian age, about 77 to 76 million years ago) in what is now Utah, United States.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (or, from Greek θηρίον "wild beast" and πούς, ποδός "foot") or theropods are a dinosaur suborder characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Troodon

Troodon (Troödon in older sources) is a dubious genus of relatively small, bird-like dinosaurs known definitively from the Campanian age of the Cretaceous period (about 77 mya).

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Tyrannosauridae

Tyrannosauridae (or tyrannosaurids, meaning "tyrant lizards") is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that comprises two subfamilies containing up to thirteen genera, including the eponymous Tyrannosaurus.

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University of Alberta

The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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University of Calgary

The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Wembley, Alberta

Wembley is a town in northern Alberta, Canada.

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Zdeněk Špinar

Zdeněk Špinar (1916 – 1995) was a Czech paleontologist and author.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Currie

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