Rise of T. rex

Lindsay Zanno is Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and an associate research professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, where she oversees the unit’s collective research and educational activities, three research collections (paleobotany, invertebrate paleontology, and vertebrate paleontology), and directs the on-exhibit Paleontology Research Lab in the Nature Research Center building. She is one of the world’s leading experts on the evolution of theropod dinosaurs. Zanno has a soft spot for the American West, where she has discovered more than a dozen new species, including Siats, one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs on the continent, and Moros, North America’s tiniest tyrannosaur.