Paul Sereno
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Sereno in 2007
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| Born | October 11, 1957 Aurora, Illinois, USA |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Paleontology (vertebrate) |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Alma mater | Northern Illinois University (B.S., Biological Sciences, 1979) Columbia University (M.A., Vertebrate Paleontology, 1981; M. Phil., Geological Sciences, 1981; Ph.D., Geological Sciences, 1987) |
| Doctoral students | Jeffrey A. Wilson |
| Known for | Discoveries in paleontology; founder of Project Exploration |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Sereno |
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence" who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.[1] His most widely publicized discovery is that of a nearly complete specimen of Sarcosuchus imperator — popularly known as SuperCroc — at Gadoufaoua in the Tenere desert of Niger.
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Biography
Youth and education
The son of a mail carrier[2] and an art teacher at Prairie Elementary, Sereno grew up in Naperville, Illinois and graduated from Naperville Central High School. He was then educated at Northern Illinois University (B.S., Biological Sciences, 1979) and Columbia University (M.A., Vertebrate Paleontology, 1981; M. Phil., Geological Sciences, 1981; Ph.D., Geological Sciences, 1987)
Career
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Sereno co-founded Project Exploration, a non-profit science education organization to encourage city kids to pursue careers in science.
He appears in the 2009 DVD Dinosaur Discoveries, featuring classic segments of CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite as the host, which aired on A&E in 1991. It was later re-shown on the Disney Channel until the late 1990s.
On August 14, 2008, it was revealed that Sereno had uncovered a large Stone Age cemetery at Gobero in the Nigerien Sahara, remnants of a people who lived from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago on the edge of what was then a large lake. The National Geographic documentary, Skeletons of the Sahara was made about this discovery and premiered in 2013. [4][5][6]
Fossil species described by Sereno or his team
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Dinosaurs
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References
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External links
- Paul Sereno's website
- TED talk by Paul Sereno on YouTube What can fossils teach us?
- TEDX talk by Paul Sereno on YouTube Dinosaurs on Drifting Continents
