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Robert L. Carroll
American–Canadian paleontologist (1938–2020)
Robert "Bob" Lynn CarrollCMFRSC (May 5, 1938 – April 7, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoicamphibians and reptiles.[1]
Biography
Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan.
He was introduced to paleontology by his father shortly after his fifth birthday, and by the time he was eight he had decided he wanted to be a vertebrate paleontologist.
Robert Carroll has taught Semitic languages and the Hebrew/English Bible for 30 years at Glasgow University, where he is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Semitic.
In that same year he received as a Christmas present the left femur of an Allosaurus, courtesy of Edwin H. Colbert, whom his father had told about his interest.[2][3] In his teen years his parents took him on many fossil hunting trips to Wyoming and South Dakota.
After high-school, he went to Michigan State University, where he received a B.Sc. in 1959, majoring in Geology.[3] From there he went to Harvard University where he studied biology