Members of the Department of Paleobiology have been leading
vertebrate paleontology expeditions since before the museum was
built. The first dinosaur expeditions were led by Othniel Marsh,
then at Yale University , who collected most of the dinosaurs on
display in the main exhibit hall. He was followed by Charles
Gilmore, who served as Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians for
more than 20 years. His expeditions added dinosaurs such as
Brachyceratops tour collections. A long hiatus in dinosaur
collecting followed Gilmore’s death in 1945, which would not end
until Dr. Michael Brett-Surman began his field work in the Big
Horn Basin of Wyoming in 1992. Today the work of finding and
collecting new dinosaurs continues, with the addition of a new
Curator of Dinosaurs, Dr. Matthew Carrano. We invite you to take
a tour of some of our recent