Matt Wedel

{{short description|American paleontologist}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = Mathew J. Wedel

| image = Argentinosaurus LACM.jpg

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| caption = Wedel beside the dorsal vertebra of Argentinosaurus

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| nationality = American

| field = Paleontologist

| work_institution = Western University of Health Sciences{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Dave |title=Archosaurs: A new online exhibit |url=https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/2012/07/archosaurs-a-new-online-exhibit/ |publisher=UC Museum of Paleontology |date=July 24, 2012}}

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Mathew John Wedel is an American paleontologist. He is associate professor at the Western University of Health Sciences Department of Anatomy in California. Wedel studies sauropods and the evolution of pneumatic bones in dinosaurs. At Western University, Wedel teaches gross anatomy.{{cite web|last=Wedel|first=M.J.|title=Profile - Mathew Wedel|url=https://peerj.com/MathewWedel/|publisher=PeerJ}} He has authored papers naming Aquilops (2014), Brontomerus (2011),{{cite news |last1=Dell'amore |first1=Christine |title="Thunder Thighs" Dinosaur Thrashed Predators to Death? |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/2/110223-thunder-thighs-new-dinosaur-species-fossils-science-brontomerus/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023743/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/2/110223-thunder-thighs-new-dinosaur-species-fossils-science-brontomerus/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |work=National Geographic News |date=February 25, 2011}} and Sauroposeidon (2000).{{cite web|last=Wedel|first=M.J.|title=CV and Publications|date=5 April 2010|url=https://sauroposeidon.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/welcome/|publisher=Mathew John Wedel}} He has published research exploring how some dinosaurs achieved large sizes.{{cite journal |last1=Heeren |first1=Fredric |title=Dinosaurs: Rise of the titans |journal=Nature |date=July 2011 |volume=475 |issue=7355 |pages=159–161 |doi=10.1038/475159a|pmid=21753829 |doi-access= |s2cid=4351516 }} In 2016, he co-authored the book The Sauropod Dinosaurs.{{cite book |last1=Hallett |first1=Mark |last2=Wedel |first2=Matthew J. |title=The sauropod dinosaurs : life in the age of giants |date=November 2016 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=978-1421420288 |oclc=975050451}}

Along with paleontologists Darren Naish and Mike P. Taylor, he founded the paleontology blog Sauropod Vertebrae Picture of the Week.{{Cite news|url=https://svpow.com/about/|title=About SV-POW!|date=1 October 2007|work=Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week|access-date=2020-03-30|language=en-US}}