Kristina "Kristi" A. Curry Rogers is a vertebrate paleontologist and a Professor in geology and biology at Macalester College. She was born on June 20, 1974. She is married to geologist, Ray Rogers, and has a daughter, Lucy, who was born in 2004. She knew she wanted to be a paleontologist since she was in the second grade, but it wasn't until her undergraduate career when she found her fascination with sauropods She holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Montana State University, and a M.Sc. Ph.D. in Anatomical Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her work focuses on questions of dinosaur biology, bone histology, growth, and evolution, especially the Titanosauria, on which she wrote her doctoral dissertation. Together with Catherine Forster, Associate Professor and her teacher at Stony Brook, she discovered and described Rapetosaurus, the most complete Cretaceoussauropod and titanosaur found to date. Through cladistic analysis of Rapetosaurus and other titanosaurs, Curry Rogers was able to revise the phylogeny of the titanosaurs. Rogers conducts field research in Montana, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe. She reconstructs the growth patterns of the Titanosaur, aiming to determine how the largest line of dinosaurs became smaller over time.. She authored The Sauropods, Evolution and Paleobiology, which was published in December 2005 In March of 2012, she was interviewed by MPR news, describing her research with sauropods.
Partial bibliography
Curry, K. A. 1999. Ontogenetic histology of Apatosaurus : New insights on growth rates and longevity. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:.
Castanet, J., K. Curry Rogers, J. Cubo, and J. J. Boisard. 2000. Quantification of periosteal osteogenesis in ostrich and emu: Implications for studies of extinct dinosaurian bone histology. Comptes Rendus l'Académie des Sciences.
Erickson, G.M., K. Curry Rogers, and S. A. Yerby. 2001. Dinosaurian growth patterns and rapid avian growth rates. Nature 412: 429–433.
Curry Rogers, K. and C. A. Forster. 2001. The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar. Nature 412: 530–534.
Curry Rogers, K. 2001. "Growth Rates among the dinosaurs" in The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs. pp. 297–309.
Curry Rogers, K and Forster, C. A. The skull of Rapetosaurus krausei from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24: 121–143.
Curry Rogers, K. A. and Wilson, J.A., 2005, The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, University of California Press, Berkeley,
Curry Rogers, K. A., 2005, "Titanosauria: A Phylogenetic Overview" in Curry Rogers and Wilson, The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology pp. 50–103
