Emily Willoughby
Emily Willoughby is an American paleoartist, illustrator, writer, and PhD student in behavior genetics living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Willoughby is best known for specializing in illustrating maniraptoran dinosaurs, although she has also done illustrations of ceratopsian dinosaurs and ankylosaurians for the nonprofit Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs.
Willoughby is noted for her interest in birds, dromaeosaurids and other feathered animals. She has done illustrations of many feathered theropods for scientific papers, most notably of Dakotaraptor steini in 2015.
Willoughby, along with Jonathan Kane, T. Michael Keesey, Glenn Morton and James Comer, also authored God's Word or Human Reason?, a 2017 book detailing the relationship between religion and science, in which the authors argue that there is no need for a Christian lifestyle to be incompatible with scientific consensus. Many of the authors talk about their former creationist lifestyles and beliefs throughout the book.
Willoughby's art is mentioned and featured commonly in various programs and dinosaur books, such as Paul Barrett and Darren Naish's Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved 2016.
