Chercheurs

Sciences de la Terre / CHIAPPE, LUIS M.

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Position

Paleontologist

Chairman, Department of Vertebrae Paleontology
Associate Curator
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

Interests in dinosaurs and their bird descendants

Dr. Chiappe has conducted extensive research on the evolution of dinosaurs. For many years, he has explored the desolate regions of Patagonia and Central Asia, and his research has been featured in several publications, including National Geographic. His recent discovery of thousands of dinosaur eggs is one of the most significant paleontology developments in the last few years.

Prix et récompenses

Publications

He is the coauthor of Walking on Eggs (2001) and The Tiniest Giants (1999).

Luis M. Chiappe, Rodolfo A. Coria, Lowell Dingus, Frankie Jackson, Anusuya Chinsamy and Marilyn Fox. "Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia." Nature 396 (November 1998): 258-261.

Luis M. Chiappe. "Wings Over Spain." Natural History (September 1998): 30-32.

Luis M. Chiappe, Mark A. Norell, and James M. Clark. "The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus." Nature 392 (March 1998): 275-278.

Catherine A. Forster, Scott D. Sampson, Luis M. Chiappe, and David W. Krause. "The Theropod Ancestry of Birds: New Evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar." Science 279 (March 1998): 1915-1919.

Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe. "The origin of birds and their flight." Scientific American (February 1998): 28-37.

Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe. "The origin and early evolution of birds." Biol. Rev. 73 (1998): 1-42.

José L. Sanz, Luis M. Chiappe, Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno, José J. Moratalla, Francisco Hernández-Carrasquilla, Angela D. Buscalioni, Francisco Ortega, Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza, Diego Rasskin-Gutman, and Xavier Martínez-Delclòs. "A Nestling Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: Implications for Avian Skull and Neck Evolution." Science 276 (June 1997): 1543-1546.

Catherine A. Forster, Luis M. Chiappe, David W. Krause and Scott D. Sampson. "The first Cretaceous bird from Madagascar." Nature 382 (August 1996): 532-534.

L. M. Chiappe and A. Chinsamy. "Pterodaustro's true teeth." Nature 379 (January 1996): 211-212.

Luis M. Chiappe . "The first 85 million years of avian evolution." Nature 378 (November 1995): 349-355.

Luis M. Chiappe. "A Diversity of Early Birds." Natural History 6 (1995): 52-55.