Nizar Ibrahim

Nizar Ibrahim
Born1982 (age 41–42)
West Berlin, West Germany[1]
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (B.Sc.)
University College Dublin (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology, Anatomy
InstitutionsUniversity of Portsmouth

Nizar Ibrahim (born in 1982) is a German-Moroccan vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist. He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth.[2] Ibrahim has led several expeditions to Africa's Sahara and is notable for his research on fossil vertebrates from the Kem Kem Group, including pterosaurs, crocodyliforms, and dinosaurs.[3][4][5] In recent years, research led by Ibrahim radically changed ideas about the morphology and life habits of one of the largest predatory dinosaurs, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.[6][7] Ibrahim also has interests in bioinformatics and contributed to the NSF-funded Phenoscape project.[8] He regularly engages with the public and is a speaker with the National Geographic Speakers Bureau.[9][10][11]

S. aegyptiacus skeletal reconstruction in swimming posture (prior to the discovery of the tail fin)
  1. ^ "Tenacious to the Bone".
  2. ^ "Dr Nizar Ibrahim".
  3. ^ "Three New Species of Flying Reptiles Discovered – Pterosaurs That Inhabited the Sahara 100 Million Years Ago". SciTechDaily. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  4. ^ Owen, James (28 May 2010). "New Giant Flying Reptile Found; Hunted on Foot?". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  5. ^ "The dinosaur hunter: TED Fellow Nizar Ibrahim searches for lost worlds". TED Blog. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  6. ^ Ibrahim, N.; Sereno, P. C.; Dal Sasso, C.; Maganuco, S.; Fabbri, M.; Martill, D. M.; Zouhri, S.; Myhrvold, N.; Iurino, D. A. (26 September 2014). "Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur" (PDF). Science. 345 (6204): 1613–1616. Bibcode:2014Sci...345.1613I. doi:10.1126/science.1258750. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25213375. S2CID 34421257.
  7. ^ Ibrahim, Nizar; Maganuco, Simone; Dal Sasso, Cristiano; Fabbri, Matteo; Auditore, Marco; Bindellini, Gabriele; Martill, David M.; Zouhri, Samir; Mattarelli, Diego A.; Unwin, David M.; Wiemann, Jasmina (29 April 2020). "Tail-propelled aquatic locomotion in a theropod dinosaur" (PDF). Nature. 581 (7806): 67–70. Bibcode:2020Natur.581...67I. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2190-3. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 32376955. S2CID 216650535.
  8. ^ "Acknowledgments - phenoscape". wiki.phenoscape.org.
  9. ^ "Speakers Bureau". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Nizar Ibrahim - Global Philanthropy Forum". philanthropyforum.org. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016.
  11. ^ Trask, Nicole (29 October 2018). "Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim - The perfect adventure". MonteCristo Magazine. Retrieved 5 February 2022.