Dr. John J. Flynn

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  John J. Flynn Dean, Richard Gilder Graduate School Frick Curator, Fossil Mammals
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  Dr. Flynn has led more than 50 paleontological expeditions to Chile, Perú, Colombia, Madagascar, Angola, India, and the Rocky Mountains, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, NASA, the AMNH and other organizations. In 2001 Flynn received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a year of research, writing and expeditions in South America. He is a member of the External Advisory Board for Yale's Peabody Museum, and has served as elected President (1999-2001) and member of the Board/Executive Committee (1993-2002) of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the world's largest organization of professionals in this field. With a specialty in mammalian paleontology and paleomagnetism, Flynn has spent his career searching for important new fossil mammal localities, as well as developing newer and more sophisticated ways to read the age of rocks and fossils, leading to more accurate geological time scales. Flynn is actively pursuing laboratory research on the anatomy, DNA and evolution of Carnivora, and has current field programs focusing on the Andes Mountains of Chile and the Amazon Basin of Perú, as well as Mesozoic deposits of Madagascar and India. In addition, Dr. Flynn has been deeply involved in integrating research with Museum exhibition and educational programs, and he recently embarked on helping to expand and enhance the world-leading fossil mammal collections at the American Museum. On recent expeditions to the Andes Mountains in Chile, Dr. Flynn and colleagues discovered a number of extremely important and rare fossil specimens, including the continent's oldest, best preserved fossil primate skull and oldest rodent fossils, both of which suggest an African origin for these important New World groups.

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 2/8/2008  

  "This is really a new kind of program that emphasizes comparative biology in a way that no other program really does," said John Flynn, dean of the Gilder School.
  
  By providing students with access to one of the largest collections of natural history specimens in the world, as well as the Museum's labs, Flynn believes the program will produce scientists with a wider view of nature than is normally developed in other programs.
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  While some worry that a degree from a museum lacks the prestige of a diploma from a better-known university, Flynn believes that at the highest levels, graduates of the Gilder School will be judged by the scientists they studied under and the research they conducted, not by the name on the diploma.
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  While there will only be four students in the inaugural class according to Flynn, the Gilder School has already garnered considerable attention.
  
  "There was a deluge of inquires about the program by students who were interested in applying to it," said Flynn.

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  Published on: 5/18/2009    Last Visited: 5/19/2009  

  Though the word now often means little more than hype, John J. Flynn, the museum's paleontologist and the show's curator, makes it appropriate. He has done so not by highlighting nature's freaks and exceptions - the mutations and bizarre accidents that amaze and horrify - but by exploring the edges of our awareness about the animal kingdom's most familiar group.

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  It allows visitors to "encounter their closest relatives" through the exploration of living and fossil mammals together, added John Flynn, the show's curator.

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  Published on: 6/8/2009    Last Visited: 6/9/2009  

  "That's less than a dollar bill [weighs]," says paleontologist and exhibit curator John Flynn.
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  "Some mammals, like whales, don't have hair because they live in an aquatic environment," says Flynn.

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  Published on: 12/12/2007    Last Visited: 12/15/2007  

  There really isn't anything that's comparable today in terms of its body form," John Flynn of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, one of the scientists, said.

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  Published on: 12/12/2007    Last Visited: 12/12/2007  

  There really isn't anything that's comparable today in terms of its body form," John Flynn of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, one of the scientists, said in a telephone interview.
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  They occupied the role that on other continents sheep might have been occupying ecologically," Flynn said.
  
  Remains of other animals living alongside it have been found, including a variety of extinct hoofed mammals, rodents and opossum relatives.

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  Published on: 7/3/2009    Last Visited: 7/3/2009  

  Meet the Curator | John Flynn AMNH - Extreme Mammals American Museum of Natural History
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  John Flynn AMNH/D. Finnin
  
  John Flynn, Frick Curator of Fossil Mammals, Division of Paleontology, and Dean of the Richard Gilder Graduate School
  
  Author of more than 100 scientific publications, Flynn's research focuses on the evolution of mammals and Mesozoic vertebrates, geological dating, plate tectonics, and biogeography.
  
  He also has contributed articles to Scientific American, Natural History, and National Geographic, curated numerous earlier exhibitions, provided scientific expertise for several popular science books, and been featured in numerous television and radio shows, newspapers and magazines.
  
  Dr. Flynn has led more than almost 50 paleontological expeditions to Chile, Perú, Colombia, Madagascar, Angola, India, and the Rocky Mountains, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, NASA, and other organizations.
  
  In 2001 Flynn received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a year of research, writing and expeditions in South America. He has served as a member of the External Advisory Board for Yale's Peabody Museum, and elected President (1999-2001) and member of the Board/Executive Committee (1993-2002) of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the world's largest organization of professionals in this field.
  
  With a specialty in mammalian paleontology and paleomagnetism, Flynn has spent his career searching for important new fossil mammal localities, as well as developing newer and more sophisticated ways to read the age of rocks and fossils, leading to more accurate geological time scales.
  
  Flynn is actively pursuing laboratory research on the anatomy, DNA and evolution of Carnivora, and has current field programs focusing on the Andes Mountains of Chile and the Amazon Basin of Perú, as well as Mesozoic deposits of Madagascar and India. In addition, Dr. Flynn has been deeply involved in integrating research with Museum exhibition and educational programs, and he recently embarked on helping to expand and enhance the world-leading fossil mammal collections at the American Museum.
  
  On recent expeditions to the Andes Mountains in Chile, Dr. Flynn and colleagues discovered a number of extremely important and rare fossil specimens, including the continent's oldest, best preserved fossil primate skull and oldest rodent fossils, both of which suggest an African origin for these important New World groups.

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  Published on: 10/21/1999    Last Visited: 7/16/2008  

  The fossils were found by John J. Flynn, MacArthur Curator and Chair of the Department of Geology at The Field Museum; William F. Simpson, Collections Manager, Fossil Vertebrates, The Field Museum; J. Michael Parrish, of Northern Illinois University; Berthe Rakotosamimanana, of the Université d'Antananarivo in Madagascar; and Robin Whatley and Andre Wyss of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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  The research was funded by The National Geographic Society and long-time Field Museum supporters John and Withrow Meeker.
  
  The Field Museum is currently involved in a collaborative U.S.-Malagasy project."The most exciting part of this project is that we are only beginning to fill in huge gaps in the fossil record of Madagascar - an island that was once thought to be fossil poor, but is turning out to be a treasure trove," Flynn said.
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  So when Flynn and his colleagues found evidence that the two groups co-existed, they knew it meant the animal fossils were unusually young, or the dinosaur fossils were unusually old.
  
  Previously, radioisotope dating has shown the oldest known dinosaurs, Herrerasaurus and its contemporaries to be just under 228 million years old.So Flynn and his colleagues were faced with the enticing question: Could the new prosauropods be even older?
  
  Because the rock layers at the Madagascar sites have not yet yielded the right minerals for radioisotope dating, the paleontologists had to use other clues from the fossil record to determine the age of their finds.Judging from the anatomical details of the fossils, two of the animals (one a parrot-beaked reptile, the other an early relative of mammals) appear to be more primitive cousins to similar animals already known to be younger than 228 million years old.Also, the Madagascar record is so far lacking in fossils of aetosaurs - small armored reptilian herbivores that were abundant beginning about 228 million years ago.The absence of aetosaurs led scientists to believe the newly found fossils were even more ancient.Flynn and the other team members therefore concluded that their find is probably closer to 230 million years old, which would make the two new prosauropods the oldest dinosaurs ever discovered.
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  They show a level of detail far superior to everything else from that time," said Flynn.

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  Published on: 6/6/2009    Last Visited: 6/6/2009  

  John Flynn is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He's the curator for a new exhibition at the museum called Extreme Mammals.
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  John Flynn Hi, I'm John Flynn and I'm a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I research fossil mammals and the relationships between living and fossil mammals.

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