ABOVE: The Redpath Museum in Montreal, where Robert Carroll had been the director
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Robert Carroll, a vertebrate paleontologist at McGill University who helped combine paleontology with evolutionary biology and genetics, died on April 8 as a result of COVID-19 at the age of 81.
He was a professor emeritus of biology at McGill University, where he conducted research from 1964–2003. He had also been a curator and eventually director of the Redpath Museum in Montreal. He was the “academic grandfather of Canadian paleontology,” Hans Larsson a paleontologist at McGill University tells The Scientist. “So many of his students and then their students have gone on to create this big critical mass of vertebrate paleontology in Canada. So much so that we organized and created our own society,” the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
According to the Redpath Museum website, Carroll was well known for having identified the oldest known ...
