Gregory S. Paul

Paul fascinates me because he straddles two worlds most people keep apart: rigorous theropod research and the artist's hand that renders those animals alive. His skeletal and life reconstructions did not just illustrate science, they shaped how the public pictures dinosaurs, feathers and all. There is a real chance that a large slice of the modern dinosaur in our collective imagination traces back to his brush. I love that combination of scholar and illustrator; it democratizes paleontology, letting a child feel the wonder a dense paper never could. That bridge-building between discipline and image is, to me, genuinely valuable work.

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Name (English)

Gregory S. Paul

Name (Japanese)

グレゴリー・ポール

Reading

ぐれごりー・ぽーる

Born

December 24, 1954 (age 71)

Origin

Washington, D.C., United States

Occupation

paleontologist / illustrator / painter / scientific illustrator / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Horse

• Official sitehttp://gspauldino.com/index.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20S.%20Paul
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q764789

Tags

• paleontologist
• illustrator
• painter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.