Alan J. Charig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlan J. Charig
British paleontologist
Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1927
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 15-Jul-1997
Profession: paleontologist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Alan J. Charig
- Alan Jack Charig (1 July 1927 – 15 July 1997) was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s. Charig was, though, first and foremost a research scientist in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London.
- There he worked on dinosaurs and their immediate Triassic ancestors, but also studied creatures as varied as limbless amphisbaenians (worm-lizards) and a Fijian gastropod, Thatcheria.
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