Marcus R. Ross | |
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48) |
Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University (BS) South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (MS) University of Rhode Island (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geosciences |
Institutions | Liberty University Discovery Institute |
Marcus R. Ross (born 1976) is an American young earth creationist and vertebrate paleontologist. Ross was featured in a February 2007 New York Times article about the conflict between his young Earth creationist beliefs (which hold the Earth to be only thousands of years old) and his doctoral dissertation (which involved animals extinct for millions of years). His dissertation was on tracking the diversity, biostratigraphy, and extinction of mosasaurs, an extinct group of marine reptiles whose remains are found in Late Cretaceous period (100–66 Ma) deposits around the world.[1][2]