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The Zanno Lab blends field explorations and systematics (primary biodiversity data generation) with quantitative approaches and frontier technologies to reconstruct the paleobiology and macroevolution of archosaurs, and decode the impact of climate change on Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems.

Publications

• Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex , The Catalogue of Life (2026)
• Chemistry supports the identification of gender-specific reproductive tissue in Tyrannosaurus rex , The Catalogue of Life (2026)
• Publisher Correction: A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia , Nature (2026)
• Publisher Correction: Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous , Nature (2026)
• A domed pachycephalosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia , Nature (2025)
• Dinosaur diversity before the asteroid , Science (2025)
• Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah , PLoS ONE (2025)
• Geological reassessment of syn‐rift extensional sequences in the Shine Usny Tolgod and Dzun Shakhai fossil localities, Eastern Gobi Basin, Mongolia , Sedimentology (2025)
• High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the Dueling Dinosaur locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana , bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2025)
• Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous , Nature (2025)

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