Larry Martin
{{short description|American paleontologist}}
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Larry Dean Martin (December 8, 1943 – March 9, 2013) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas.{{cite web|url=http://news.ku.edu/2013/03/11/university-mourns-death-professor-larry-martin |title=University mourns death of Professor Larry Martin | The University of Kansas | The University of Kansas |publisher=News.ku.edu |date= 11 March 2013|access-date=2013-03-15}} Among Martin's work is research on the Triassic reptile Longisquama and theropod dinosaur (or fossil bird) Caudipteryx and Dakotaraptor. According to the University of Kansas, he "has been a leading opponent of the theory that birds are 'living dinosaurs.'"{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} Later he acknowledged a correlation and further contributed.
He has also appeared in a few television documentaries about dinosaurs, including Jurassic Fight Club.
He died of cancer at the age of 69 on March 9, 2013, after a long battle with the disease.
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External links
- [http://www.news.ku.edu/2003/03N/MarchNews/March10/dinosaur.html KU paleontologist to lecture on 4-winged wonder and feathered dinosaurs (Kansas University press release)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20021003232017/http://nhm.ku.edu/ Kansas University Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center]
- [https://archive.today/20121214195107/http://biodiversity.ku.edu/larry-martin University of Kansas Departmental Profile]
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Category:American paleontologists
Category:American ornithologists
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