Andrew Moore

I am evolutionary anatomist at Stony Brook University that studies the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs and their living cousins, birds. My lab uses a diverse toolkit to reconstruct the phylogeny of these groups and to test hypotheses about the evolution of the axial skeleton and the soft tissues that shape it. I am particularly interested in the evolution of exceptionally long necks in mamenchisaurids, diplodocoids, and other sauropods, and in characterizing the macroevolutionary shifts in scaling that produced their remarkable body plans.

May 2019