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Mark A. Norell is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant specialization in Paleontology across 70 publications. Subfields of study include Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Geometry and Topology, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics covered by Norell's work span several areas, including Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Nature
  • Communications Biology
  • American Museum Novitates
  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark A. Norell include:

  • "Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution", 2020, Current Biology
  • "Bird neurocranial and body mass evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: The avian brain shape left other dinosaurs behind", 2021, Science Advances
  • "The first dinosaur egg was soft", 2020, Nature
  • "Fossil biomolecules reveal an avian metabolism in the ancestral dinosaur", 2022, Nature
  • "Subaqueous foraging among carnivorous dinosaurs", 2022, Nature

Mark A. Norell frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar
  • Matteo Fabbri
  • Amy M. Balanoff
  • Congyu Yu
  • Michael Hanson

The scientist has one book publication with the American Museum of Natural History: "The osteology of Haya griva (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 445)" published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China

    Ji Qiang;Philip J. Currie;Mark A. Norell;Ji Shu-An

  • Anatomy and systematics of the Confuciusornithidae (Theropoda, Aves) from the late Mesozoic of northeastern China. Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 242

    Luis M. Chiappe;Shu-An. Ji;Qiang. Ji;Mark A. Norell

  • A nesting dinosaur

    Mark A. Norell;James M. Clark;Luis M. Chiappe;Demberelyin Dashzeveg

  • A Basal Dromaeosaurid and Size Evolution Preceding Avian Flight

    Alan H. Turner;Diego Pol;Julia A. Clarke;Julia A. Clarke;Julia A. Clarke;Gregory M. Erickson

  • A review of dromaeosaurid systematics and paravian phylogeny

    Alan H. Turner;Alan H. Turner;Peter J. Makovicky;Mark A. Norell

  • Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

    Gregory M. Erickson;Peter J. Makovicky;Philip J. Currie;Mark A. Norell

  • Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids

    Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Mark A. Norell;Xuewen Kuang;Xiaolin Wang

  • The origin and early radiation of dinosaurs

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Sterling J. Nesbitt;Randall B. Irmis;Richard J. Butler

  • Taxic origin and temporal diversity: the effect of phylogeny

    Mark A. Norell;M. J. Novacek;Q. D. Wheeler

  • Anatomy and systematics of the Confuciusornithidae (Theropoda: Aves) from the late mesozoic of northeastern China

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  • Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Graeme T. Lloyd;Steve C. Wang;Mark A. Norell

  • A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China

    Xing Xu;Mark A. Norell;Xiao Lin Wang;Peter J. Makovicky

  • A Theropod Dinosaur Embryo and the Affinities of the Flaming Cliffs Dinosaur Eggs

    Mark A. Norell;James M. Clark;Dashzeveg Demberelyin;Barsbold Rhinchen

  • A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture

    Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Mark A. Norell

  • A Complete Skeleton of a Late Triassic Saurischian and the Early Evolution of Dinosaurs

    Sterling J. Nesbitt;Sterling J. Nesbitt;Nathan D. Smith;Nathan D. Smith;Randall B. Irmis;Randall B. Irmis;Alan H. Turner

  • Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls

    Bhart-Anjan Singh Bhullar;Jesús Marugán-Lobón;Fernando Racimo;Gabe S. Bever

  • Tyrannosaur Paleobiology: New Research on Ancient Exemplar Organisms

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Stephen L. Brusatte;Mark A. Norell;Thomas D. Carr;Gregory M. Erickson;Gregory M. Erickson

  • A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China

    Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Catherine A. Forster;Mark A. Norell

  • Reconstruction of Microraptor and the Evolution of Iridescent Plumage

    Quanguo Li;Ke Qin Gao;Qingjin Meng;Julia Allison Clarke

  • The distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur

    Qiang Ji;Mark A. Norell;Ke-Qin Gao;Shu-An Ji

  • The Fossil Record and Evolution: Comparing Cladistic and Paleontologic Evidence for Vertebrate History

    Mark A. Norell;Michael J. Novacek

  • A new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avian origin

    Xing Xu;Qi Zhao;Mark Norell;Corwin Sullivan

  • South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution

    André R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Mark A. Norell;Carl C. Swisher

  • The extinction of the dinosaurs

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Richard J. Butler;Paul M. Barrett;Matthew T. Carrano

  • Was Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited by Birds? Reconciling Slow Growth in Archaeopteryx

    Gregory M. Erickson;Gregory M. Erickson;Oliver W. M. Rauhut;Zhonghe Zhou;Alan H. Turner;Alan H. Turner

  • Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert

    Gao Keqin;Mark A. Norell

  • Evolutionary origins of the avian brain

    Amy M. Balanoff;Amy M. Balanoff;Amy M. Balanoff;Gabe S. Bever;Gabe S. Bever;Timothy B. Rowe;Mark A. Norell

  • Supporting Online Material for A Basal Dromaeosaurid and Size Evolution Preceding Avian Flight

    Alan H. Turner;Diego Pol;Julia A. Clarke;Gregory M. Erickson

  • A review of dromaeosaurid systematics and paravian phylogeny. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 371)

    Alan H. Turner;Peter J. Makovicky;Mark. Norell

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen L. Brusatte
Stephen L. Brusatte University of Edinburgh
Alan H. Turner
Alan H. Turner Stony Brook University
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Xing Xu
Xing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Julia A. Clarke
Julia A. Clarke The University of Texas at Austin
Michael J. Novacek
Michael J. Novacek American Museum of Natural History
Diego Pol
Diego Pol National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Sterling J. Nesbitt
Sterling J. Nesbitt Virginia Tech
Malcolm C. McKenna
Malcolm C. McKenna American Museum of Natural History
Gareth J. Dyke
Gareth J. Dyke University of Debrecen

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