RIP, John H. Ostrom.... John H. Ostrom, the Yale Paleontologist who advanced the theory that birds descended from dinosaurs died yesterday at the age of 77.
Ostrom also discovered Deinonychus antirrhopus, a "spectacular, but fairly small dinosaur" whose name means counterbalancing fearsome claw.
—Lindsay Beyerstein 12:51 PM
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