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“More than 100 human burials lay before me” stammered Paul Sereno, paleontologist at the University of Chicago and Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic. Sereno had just discovered the Sahara’s largest graveyard—hundreds of burials older than the pyramids.
Paul Callistus Sereno (* 11 de outubro de 1957) é um paleontólogo norte-americano que descobriu várias espécies de dinossauros e répteis em vários continentes. Filho de carteiro, Sereno cresceu em Naperville, Illinois, Estados Unidos .
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.
Sereno has studied dinosaur fossils in far-flung collections in China and Mongolia, while earning a doctorate at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1987 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he teaches paleontology and evolution.
Paul Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, works with students, technicians and artists in his Fossil Lab to bring to life fossils unearthed from sites around the world.
Discoverer of dinosaurs on five continents and leader of dozens of expeditions, Sereno's fieldwork began in 1988 in the foothills of the Andes in Argentina, where his team discovered the first dinosaurs to roam the Earth, including the most primitive of all, Eoraptor.
Paul Sereno has led scores of expeditions resulting in monumental discoveries on four continents. His paleontological quests have unearthed the earliest dinosaurs Eoraptor and Eodromaeus in Argentina, the meat-eating dinosaur Rajasaurus in India, a herd of birdlike dinosaurs in China, and a new plant-eating dinosaur in Tibet.
