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Place of Origin: Tokyo, Japan

Habitat:  Denver, Colorado

Favorite Movie: Godzilla (original), Jurassic Park I and II

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Favorite Dinosaur: thyreophorans (until too many people start working on them, then I'll
find some other under appreaciated 
dinosaur)

Favorite Sport: sports? what is a "sport"

Exercise: exercise?

Hobbies: research

Distinguishing Features: strongly opinionated, support the underdog.
 

Dr.Carpenter  was the Paleontologist of the Month on Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette Dino Dish from March 1-31, 1999

Vera Velociraptor's Very Vast, Verbose, Voracious Vocabulary 

Students? Pay Attention! Be sure to check out that is to say, investigate, (humph), certain other useful pieces of terminology at the 7V-WOW Archives.

"I have been interested in dinosaurs ever since my mother took me to see "Godzilla" when I was five years old. I saw my first dinosaur skeletons when I was seven. Little did I know then, I that would someday take those skeletons apart and rebuild them into the active poses they now have here at the Denver Museum of Natural History. 

One of those skeletons, the Stegosaurus, was found near Canon City, Colorado, a few miles from where I found my first dinosaur skeleton when I was 15 - that also was a Stegosaurus. Perhaps I should have seen that discovery of mine as heralding my future, because I would eventually return in 1992 with a team to excavate the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever found. That skeleton was found about a half mile from where O.C. Marsh ecavated the famous "road-kill" Stegosaurus on display at the Smithsonian, and about one-thousand feet from where the other Denver Museum Stegosaurus was collected. 

I do not know what stired my interest in Stegosaurus and the other group of armored dinosaurs, the ankylosaurs. I have published mostly on the ankylosaurs, including Gargoyleosaurus. But my interests are vast, and I have also published on Stegosaurus plates, systematics of tyrannosaurids, the biomechanics of the T. rex arm, behavior of hadrosaurs as inferred from their footprints, the behavior of pachycephalosaurs, with several colleagues redescribed E.D. Cope's Dryptosaurus, and I have even written a couple papers on fossil mammals - gasp!

Currently, I am finishing up a book, "Eggs, Nests and Baby Dinosaurs," for the University of Indiana Press. It's scheduled for publication later this year. It will join my other books "Dinosaur Systematics," "Dinosaur Eggs and Babies," "The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope," and "The Morrison Formation - an Interdisciplinary Study."
 

Books by Dr. Carpenter (sometimes with others)
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Dinosaur Eggs and Babies,  Kenneth Carpenter (Editor), Karl F. Hirsch (Editor), John R. Horner (Editor),  Hardcover (April 1994)   Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 0521443423 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x  10.28 x 7.28 
Paperback  (March 1996)  Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521567238 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x 9.98 x 7.02 

The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope, out of print.

Dinosaur Systematics  : Approaches and Perspectives   by Kenneth Carpenter (Editor), Philip J. Currie (Editor) Paperback (August 1992)  Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521438101 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69  x 9.92 x 6.96 
Hardcover  (December 1990)  Cambridge Univ Pr (Short); ISBN: 0521366720

The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation - an Interdisciplinary Study 

Results of a Symposium held at the Denver Museum of Natural History, May 26-28, 1994,  Guest Editors: Kenneth Carpenter, Daniel J. Chure, and James 1. Kirkland., 
The Special Issue of the Morrison Formation is published in two volumes of Modern Geology, (ISBN 90-5699-183-3)
Volumes 22 (533 pages) and 23 (537 pages). 
Price: $262 U.S. (f 176) for 1070 pages and 3 colored plates.

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