Angela Milner

Angela C. Milner ( b. 1947 ) is a British vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum, in London. It deals mainly with dinosaurs and fossil birds.

Milner collected even as a young plant and watching birds. It is in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Natural History since 1976. There they organized among others, the presentation of the dinosaurs. At the time of her retirement, she was the Deputy Keeper of the Department of Palaeontology and Head of vertebrate paleontology. Milner is a doctorate.

In 1986, she described with together with Alan Charig the dinosaur Baryonyx, a fish-eating Spinosauriden whose remains is reckoned to be the best preserved finds of theropod in Europe. She collected including in China and the Sahara.

She examined the brain of Archaeopteryx with computed with the result that the inner ear and brain relationship can be seen with modern birds. More such studies followed in fossil birds from the Eocene of southern England. Next, she dealt with tetrapods from the Carboniferous.

She also wrote books about dinosaurs for children. It occurs since the 1980s, often in TV shows in the UK mainly to dinosaurs on, for example, BBC Horizon. They also commented often in public debates in particular on the problem of private collecting of ( dinosaur ) fossils.

Writings

  • Dino -Birds, British Museum, 2002
  • With Rosemary McDonald, Kathy Gerrard (Editor): Dinosaurs, Barnes and Noble 2006
  • Other: The Natural History Museum Book of Dinosaurs
  • David Norman Dinosaur, Button 1989
  • Processing of C. Tung Dinosaurs from China, 1988
  • Tim Gardom dinosaurs: how they lived - why they became extinct, Bassermann 1993
  • Bilderbogen of the dinosaurs: the 100 most important dinosaur at a glance - from the Triassic to Cretaceous, Munich, Ars Edition 1992
  • Alan Baryonyx walkeri Charig, a fish -eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of London 53, 1997, pp. 11-70
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