Ellison McNutt, Ph.D.
McNutt is a comparative anatomist and functional morphologist, currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Instruction working in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. She earned her Masters in biological anthropology from Boston University and her Ph.D. in the same at Dartmouth College, within their Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems, and Society Program.
Lawrence Witmer, Ph.D.
Dr. Witmer's vision is "To use the structure of extinct and modern-day animals to interpret evolutionary history, and to share that history with the broader community."
This mission has served him well. Witmer is known the world over for his dinosaur research and discoveries and is frequently called upon to provide source material, expertise and explanation for shows on a variety of television networks and countless print publications and journals.
Nancy Stevens, Ph.D.
Dr. Stevens explores interactions between organisms and their environments through time, in particular the relationships between form and function in primates and other animals. She has conducted paleontological field research in over a dozen countries in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Her finds document several discoveries new to science, including the first dinosaur trackways from the Arabian Peninsula, and the oldest fossil evidence of the split between Old World monkeys and apes.
Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D.
Dr. O'Connor combines laboratory studies with field research to address how organisms are matched to their environments and how changing environments ultimately influence biotic diversity on the planet. Primarily focused on predatory dinosaurs, birds and crocodiles, his early work advanced traditional fossil interpretations by examining how different soft-tissue systems - in particular the pulmonary and nervous systems - influence the size and shape of features preserved on dinosaur skeletons.