{"id":59093,"date":"2021-01-07T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=59093"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:30:13","slug":"museum-paleontologist-receives-award-for-paper-naming-tiny-tyrannosaur","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/museum-paleontologist-receives-award-for-paper-naming-tiny-tyrannosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum paleontologist receives award for paper naming tiny tyrannosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59108\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Copy-of-Moros-white-background-Credit-Jorge-Gonzalez_800.jpg\" alt=\"Moros intrepidus. Illustration by Jorge Gonzalez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Copy-of-Moros-white-background-Credit-Jorge-Gonzalez_800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Copy-of-Moros-white-background-Credit-Jorge-Gonzalez_800-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Copy-of-Moros-white-background-Credit-Jorge-Gonzalez_800-500x310.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Copy-of-Moros-white-background-Credit-Jorge-Gonzalez_800-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Moros intrepidus<\/em>. Illustration by Jorge Gonzalez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Museum&#8217;s Head of Paleontology, Dr. Lindsay Zanno, and colleagues have won the <i>Eighteenth International Award in\u00a0Palaeontological Research\u00a0(Paleonturology 20)<\/i>, for her paper describing the tiny tyrannosaur\u00a0<i>Moros intrepidus<\/i>. The award is selected by jury through the\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Conjunto Paleontol\u00f3gico de Teruel-Din\u00f3polis, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The author team includes Museum and NCSU Postdoc Aurore Canoville, Museum Resident and NCSU grad student Haviv Avrahami, and Museum Adjunct and NCSU faculty member Terry Gates.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the award, Zanno will write a version of the paper for readers\u00a0aged 15-17 years, to be published as a popular version of the article. The award<i>\u00a0<\/i>is endowed with a three-thousand Euro (3.000 \u20ac) prize that will be put toward funding the Museum&#8217;s first expedition to Mongolia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Zanno, L.E., Tucker, R.T., Canoville, A., Avrahami, H.M., Gates, T.A. &amp; Makovicky, P.J.\u00a0(2019).\u00a0Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record.\u00a0<i>Communications Biology<\/i>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s42003-019-0308-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s42003-019-0308-7<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59109,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/59093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/59093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}