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{{short description|American paleontologist}}

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'''Matthew Carl Lamanna''' is a [[paleontologist]] and the assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at the [[Carnegie Museum of Natural History]], where he oversees the [[dinosaur]] collection.

==Education==
Lamanna graduated from [[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart College]] in [[Geneva, New York]] in 1997.  He received high honors in biology and geology.  Lamanna went on to get his M.A. and Ph.D. in earth and environmental science from the [[University of Pennsylvania]].

==Personal Life==
Lamanna is famously known to be related to renown musician, Jonathan 'Jon' Lamanna formerly of the band 'Cry to the Blind'. 
==Discoveries==
Lamanna first gained fame for the 2000 discovery of ''[[Paralititan]]'' in Egypt, called by some{{by whom|date=December 2019}} as the "largest dinosaur ever discovered".  The [[sauropod]] was 80 feet long and weighed between 40 and 50 tons.  The discovery was the feature of a 2-hour [[A&E (TV network)|A&E]] documentary ''[[The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt]]''.

Beginning in 2004, Lamanna began work on a series of digs in China.  The result, first published in the journal ''Science'' in June 2006, was the discovery of ''[[Gansus|Gansus yumenensis]],'' a missing link in the early evolution of birds.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110526061639/http://www.carnegiemnh.org/vp/lamanna.html Lamanna's CV at Carnegie Museum]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927103101/http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/2004/septoct/cmnh.html Lamanna’s biography at Carnegie Museum] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060830175125/http://www.hws.edu/alumni/remarkable/displaynotablealum.asp?notablealumid=29 “Remarkable Alum” entry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges website]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061501046.html Ancestor of Modern Birds Believed Found] – The Washington Post
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061020090040/http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00073E23-CDE6-1491-8DE683414B7F0000 Ducklike Fossil Points to Aquatic Origins for Modern Birds] – Scientific American

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