Thomas Carr
Thomas Carr
- Senior Scientific Advisor, Dinosaur Discovery Museum; Director, Carthage Institute of Paleontology; Associate Professor of Biology
Thomas Carr’s research interests include the integration of ontogenic and phylogenetic data in paleontology, phylogeny and historical biogeography of Laurasian dinosaurs, and the craniofacial anatomy of archosaurs.
He has named four new dinosaur species in peer-reviewed publications such as Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has also published on the life appearance of tyrannosaurs, their growth, and evolutionary relationships. He trains students in the research methods of recovering growth series of extinct animals, which forms the basis of their senior thesis.
Prof. Carr has appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentaries “T. rex Walks Again” and “Dinosaurs Decoded” that featured his scholarship and fieldwork on T. rex. He has written articles for popular publications such as Rotunda and Dinosaur World. He is currently working on a book-length monograph on T. rex growth. His degrees are Ph.D. Vertebrate Paleontology, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto; M.Sc. University of Toronto; B.A. York University (York, Ontario).
Prof. Carr joined the Carthage faculty in 2004.