Paul Sereno

The son of a mail carrierSpalding, D.A.E., 1993, Dinosaur Hunters: 150 years of extraordinary discoveries, Key Porter Books, Toronto, p. 284 and an art teacher at Prairie Elementary, Sereno grew up in Naperville, Illinois and graduated from Naperville Central High School. He completed his B.S., Biological Sciences from Northern Illinois University in 1979, M.A. in Vertebrate Paleontology, from Columbia University in 1981, M. Phil. in Geological Sciences in 1981, and Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, in 1987.

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Sereno was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People (1997).{{cite magazine|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20122102,00.html|title=Most Beautiful: Paul Sereno|magazine=People|date=1997-12-05|access-date=2013-11-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233231/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20122102,00.html|archive-date=2013-12-02}}

Sereno co-founded Project Exploration, a non-profit science education organization to encourage city kids to pursue careers in science. He appeared in the 2009 DVD Dinosaur Discoveries, which included segments originally hosted by CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite. The program first aired onA&E in 1991 and was later rebroadcast on the Disney Channel through the late 1990s.

On August 14 2008, Sereno uncovered a large Stone Age cemetery at Gobero in the Nigerien Sahara, remnants of a people who lived from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago on the edge of what was then a large lake. The National Geographic based a documentary, Skeletons of the Sahara on this discovery, which premiered in 2013. {{cite web | last = Dell'Amore | first = Christine | title = Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings "Green Sahara" to Life | work = News article about; Dinosaur hunters have stumbled across the largest and oldest Stone Age cemetery in the Sahara desert | publisher = National Geographic News | date = 14 August 2008 | url = http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080815102752/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080814-sereno-sahara-missions.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = August 15, 2008 | format = Web | access-date = 2008-08-15 }}{{cite web | last = Gwin | first = Peter | title = Green Sahara | work = Feature story about; Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara - How a dinosaur hunter uncovered the Sahara's strangest Stone Age graveyard | publisher = National Geographic | date = September 2008 | url = http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/green-sahara/gwin-text | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080817040031/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/green-sahara/gwin-text | url-status = dead | archive-date = August 17, 2008 | format = Web | access-date = 2008-08-15 }}{{cite web | title = Skeletons of the Sahara | publisher = PBS | url = http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=21711 | format = Web | access-date = 2013-08-24 }}

{{See also|Category: Taxa named by Paul Sereno}}

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Dinosaurs

• Aerosteon
• Afrovenator
• Significant new material of Carcharodontosaurus, including Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis)
• Deltadromeus
• Eocarcharia
• Eodromaeus
• Eoraptor
• Erliansaurus
• Graciliceratops
• Significant new material of Herrerasaurus
• Jobaria
• Kryptops
• Neimongosaurus
• Nigersaurus
• Pegomastax
• Three new species of Psittacosaurus (P. meileyingensis, P. xinjiangensis, P. gobiensis) {{col-break}}
• Rajasaurus
• Raptorex
• Rugops
• Significant new material of Spinosaurus
• Significant new material of Sinornithomimus.{{cite journal|last1=Varricchio|first1=D. J.|last2=Sereno|first2=P. C.|last3=Xijin|first3=Z.|last4=Lin|first4=T.|last5=Wilson|first5=J. A.|last6=Lyon|first6=G. H.|date=2008|title=Mud-Trapped Herd Captures Evidence of Distinctive Dinosaur Sociality|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica|volume=53|issue=4|pages=567–578|doi=10.4202/app.2008.0402|doi-access=free|issn=0567-7920}}
• Spinostropheus
• Suchomimus

Other fossil reptiles

• Marasuchus, an early relative of dinosaurs
• "The African Pterosaur"
• Sarcosuchus imperator
• Anatosuchus minor from Niger
• Araripesuchus rattoides from Niger and Morocco
• Kaprosuchus saharicus from Niger and Morocco
• Laganosuchus thaumastos from Niger and Morocco
• Laganosuchus maghrebensis from Niger and Morocco

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File:Paul Sereno with Sinornithomimus.jpg

In addition to his many discoveries in the field, public communication has been a big part of Sereno's career.

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• {{cite web|title=Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/green-sahara/gwin-text.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926062540/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/green-sahara/gwin-text.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 26, 2008|website=National Geographic}}. September 2008 issue.

• [http://www.paulsereno.org/ Paulsereno.org: official Paul Sereno website]
• {{YouTube|TgxLl-jBAjY|TED talk by Paul Sereno}} What can fossils teach us?
• {{YouTube|rJ7JYFvVtmA|TEDX talk by Paul Sereno}} Dinosaurs on Drifting Continents
• [http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_sereno_digs_up_dinosaurs Digging up dinosaurs], TED

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