Mark Norell

Who is Mark Norell?

Mark A. Norell is an American paleontologist and molecular geneticist, acknowledged as one of the most important living vertebrate paleontologists. He is currently the chairman of paleontology and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He is best known as the discoverer of the first theropod embryo, the Djadochta Formation and for the description of feathered dinosaurs. Norell is credited with the discoveries, as well as the nomenclature of the species Apsaravis, Byronosaurus, and Achillonychus. His work regularly appears in major scientific journals and was listed by Time magazine as one of the ten most significant science stories of 1993, 1994 and 1996.

Norell is both a fellow of the Explorer's Club and the Willi Hennig Society.