John Ostrom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Ostrom

American paleontologist

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1928

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 16-Jul-2005

Profession: university teacher, paleontologist, pathologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s. As first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s, Ostrom showed that dinosaurs were more like big non-flying birds than they were like lizards (or "saurians"). The first of Ostrom's broad-based reviews of the osteology and phylogeny of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx appeared in 1976.
His reaction to the eventual discovery of feathered dinosaurs in China, after years of acrimonious debate, was bittersweet.