David B. Norman
David Bruce Norman is a British paleontologist, Graduate Tutor and
Director of Studies at Christ's College, Cambridge, emeritus Professor of Vertebrate Palaeobiology and emeritus curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. From 1991 to 2011, Norman was also the Sedgwick Museum's director.
Life and career
Norman is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he teaches Earth Sciences in the Natural Sciences tripos. A member of the Palaeontological Association, he has studied Iguanodon and also has participated in the studies and scientific surveys included in the dinosaur work The Dinosauria. The species epithet of Equijubus normani was named in honour of him.In 2017, Norman was one of three British palaeontologists who proposed a radical new hypothesis for early dinosaur evolution and interrelationships in a paper in the journal Nature. In this work, Matthew Baron, Norman and Paul Barrett suggested that Ornithischia and Theropoda were closely related as part of a new clade that they named Ornithoscelida.
He also possesses a keen interest in rugby, and he regularly referees for Cambridge University.
Works
Children's books
The Poster Book of Dinosaurs, Hodder Children's Books, 1988 The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs, Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang ; The Big Book of Dinosaurs, Publisher: Welcome Books ; Dinosaurs Sticker Book, Usborne Sticker Books, 2010,Popular science books
Spotter's Guide to Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Animals, Usborne Publishing, London, 1980 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985 The Age of Dinosaurs, Hodder Wayland, November 1985Dinosaurs!, E.D.C. Publishing, December 1985 Dinosaur, co-authored with Angela Milner, Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books, London, 1989Dinosaur!, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1991, Prehistoric Life: the rise of the vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons, New York, December 1994 The Smithsonian Handbook to Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, co-authored with Hazel Richardson, Dorling Kindersley, 2003,Scientific books and surveys
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Salamander Books, 1985 Basal Ornithischia and Basal Thyreophora, Basal Ornithopoda, Basal Iguanodontia ; in The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 2004, edited by David B. Weishampel, Halszka Osmólska and Peter Dodson, University of California Press, Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, December 2005,*
TV documentaries
Crew member, as a scientific advisor
Walking with DinosaursOn screen, as himself
Dinosaur! The Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs Myths & Reality- ''The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs''