LEARN ABOUT PALEONTOLOGY AND TYRANNOSAUROUS REX 

From fossil bones in the badlands of the American West to starring roles in motion pictures, Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most famous dinosaurs. But it was not alone: it was just one part of a greater family of carnivorous giants from the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Where did the tyrant dinosaurs come from? How did they live? Find out about what we have discovered about T. rex and its cousins from paleontologist Thomas Holtz.

ABOUT THOMAS R. HOLTZ

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. is Principal Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology at the Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on the origin, evolution, adaptations, and behavior of carnivorous dinosaurs, and especially of tyrannosauroids (Tyrannosaurus rex and its kin). He received his Bachelors in Earth & Planetary Geology at Johns Hopkins in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the Department of Geology & Geophysics at Yale in 1992. He is also a Research Associate of the Department of Paleobiology of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and serves on the Scientific Council of Maryland Academy of Science (which operates the Maryland Science Center (Baltimore, MD)).

In addition to his dinosaur research, Holtz has been active in scientific outreach. He has been a consultant on museum exhibits around the world, and on numerous documentaries.

His University website is https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/ and his YouTube Channel is https://www.youtube.com/@thomasrichardholtz9031.

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