In 2006, he was awarded the Marshall Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom. He was also the winner of the John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prize and the Howard Hughes Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship. He was elected a Student Marshal, the highest academic honor the university bestows to undergraduates. From 2002, he attended the University of Chicago from where he earned his BS in geophysical sciences in 2006. He was educated at the Ottawa Township High School. Biography īrusatte was born in Ottawa, Illinois to Jim and Roxanne Brusatte. In June 2022 he published The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us. His book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (2018), written for the adult lay person, won widespread acclaim, and was a New York Times bestseller. In addition to his scientific papers and technical monographs, his popular book Dinosaurs (2008) and the textbook Dinosaur Paleobiology (2012) earned him accolades, and he became the resident palaeontologist and scientific consultant for the BBC Earth and 20th Century Fox's 2013 film Walking With Dinosaurs, which is followed by his popular book Walking with Dinosaurs Encyclopedia. He is currently a Reader in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Chicago for his BS degree, at the University of Bristol for his MSc on a Marshall Scholarship, and finally at the Columbia University for MPhil and PhD. Stephen Louis Brusatte (born April 24, 1984) is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, who specializes in the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs.

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