Curry Rogers is a vertebrate paleontologist most interested in studying dinosaur
evolution and paleobiology. Her current research focuses on the evolutionary history of
Titanosauria - the latest surviving and perhaps most diverse lineage of long-necked
sauropod dinosaurs. Titanosauria includes over 40 species that had a near-global
distribution during the Late Cretaceous. With regard to paleobiology, she is most
interested in understanding dinosaur life history, and utilizes bone histology to explore
and reconstruct growth patterns in extinct dinosaurs, living birds, and other
vertebrates. To these ends, she also conducts field research in Montana, Madagascar, and
Zimbabwe. She is jointly appointed in the Biology Department at Macalester, and teaches a
selection of courses that relate to her research interests, including: (1) Dinosaurs
(GEOL 101), (2) Biodiversity and Evolution (BIOL 270), (3) Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
(BIOL 394), and (4) Vertebrate Paleobiology (GEOL 394). 

Curry Rogers have been teaching at Macalester since 1997. 

EDUCATION: B.Sc., Montana State University; M.Sc., Ph.D., State University of New York,
Stony Brook

Articles

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“Growth Patterns in Brooding Dinosaurs Reveals the Timing of Sexual Maturity in Non-avian Dinosaurs and Genesis of the Avian Condition.” (with G.M. Erickson, D.J. Varricchio, M.A. Norell, and X. Xu), Biology Letters (2007)
 

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“Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Nesting Sites of Rio Negro (Salitral Ojo de Agua and Salinas de Trapalco-Salitral de Santa Rosa), Northern Patagonia, Argentina.” (with L. Salgado, R.A. Coria, C.M. Magalhaes Ribeiro, A. Garrido, R. Rogers, M.E. Simon, A.B. Arcucci, A.P. Carabajal, S. Apesteguia, M. Fernandez, R.A. Garcia, and M. Talevi), Cretaceous Research (2007)
 

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“Three-dimensional Reconstruction of the Skull of Rapetosaurus krausei (Sauropoda, Titanosauria).” (with J. Hertel and J. Groenke), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2006)
 

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“The Postcranial Anatomy of Rapetosaurus krausei (Sauropoda, Titanosauria), With Comments on Life History Strategy.”, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2005)
 

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“Deep into Dinosaur Bones.”, Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2005)
 

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Books

The Sauropods : Evolution and Paleobiology (with Jeffrey A. Wilson) (2005)
 

Contributions to Books

“Sauropod Histology: Microscopic Views on the Lives of Giants”, The Sauropods : Evolution and Paleobiology (2005)
 

"Titanosauria: A Phylogenetic Overview", The Sauropods : Evolution and Paleobiology (2005)
 

"Growth Rates Among the Dinosaurs", The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs (2001)