Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

Thomas Richard Holtz Jr. (born September 13, 1965) is an American vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylogeny, morphology, ecomorphology, and locomotion of terrestrial predators, especially on tyrannosaurids and other theropod dinosaurs. He wrote the book ''Dinosaurs'' and is the author or co-author of the chapters "Saurischia", "Basal Tetanurae", and "Tyrannosauroidea" in the second edition of ''The Dinosauria''. He has also been consulted as a scientific advisor for the ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' BBC series as well as the Discovery special ''When Dinosaurs Roamed America'', and has appeared in numerous documentaries focused on prehistoric life, such as ''Jurassic Fight Club'' on History and ''Monsters Resurrected'', ''Dinosaur Revolution'' and ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' on Discovery.

Holtz is also the director of the Science and Global Change Program within the College Park Scholars living-learning community at the University of Maryland, College Park. Provided by Wikipedia

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