Philip Currie
Biological Sciences
University of Alberta
Canada
Biography
Philip Currie is a professor belongs to the department of Biology from the university of Alberta.
Research Interest
Research Interests Works on dinosaurs, focusing on problems with growth and variation, the anatomy and relationships of carnivorous dinosaurs, and the origin of birds. Has a long term goal of understanding the rich Cretaceous ecosystem of Dinosaur Park , and contemporaneous faunas and habitats of other sites in western North America. Is also interested in what can be learned about dinosaurian behaviour, including annual and intercontinental migrations. Interested in dinosaurs since childhood, he finds that the excitement of discovery (fossils in the field, and ideas in the "lab") constantly renews his interest. Fieldwork connected with his research has been concentrated in Alberta, British Columbia, the Arctic, Argentina and China. Work on the Centrosaurus bonebed, the origin of birds, "feathered" dinosaurs, hadrosaur nesting sites and the Canada-China Dinosaur Project have attracted the greatest international attention.
Publications
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Xing L, McKellar RC, Xu X, Li G, Bai M, Persons WS, Miyashita T, Benton MJ, Zhang J, Wolfe AP, Yi Q, Tseng K, Ran H, Currie PJ. Response to: Phylogenetic placement, developmental trajectories and evolutionary implications of a feathered dinosaur tail in Mid-Cretaceous amber. Current Biology : Cb. 27: R216-R217. PMID 28324735 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.023
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Pu H, Zelenitsky DK, Lü J, Currie PJ, Carpenter K, Xu L, Koppelhus EB, Jia S, Xiao L, Chuang H, Li T, Kundrát M, Shen C. Perinate and eggs of a giant caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of central China. Nature Communications. 8: 14952. PMID 28486442 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14952
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Bell PR, Campione NE, Persons WS, Currie PJ, Larson PL, Tanke DH, Bakker RT. Tyrannosauroid integument reveals conflicting patterns of gigantism and feather evolution. Biology Letters. 13. PMID 28592520 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0092
