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Sterling Nesbitt, University of Texas at Austin

Caption: Paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt at Hayden Quarry on Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. Nesbitt, a post doctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues discovered Tawa hallae, a previously unknown theropod dinosaur.

Credit: Guillermo Rougier

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