Scott Hartman

Research

How vertebrates work, approached from three directions that keep feeding into one another.

Time-calibrated phylogeny of paravian theropods, with avialans highlighted in blue

Origin of avian flight

Moving past the ground-up versus trees-down debate by testing flight-origin models against a time-calibrated paravian record.

Daily body-temperature curves for Varanus and Coelophysis in hot and cold microclimates

Physiological modeling

Linked microclimate and heat-balance models that ask where extinct animals could actually live.

Skeletal reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus with the caudofemoralis muscle and tail cross-sections shown in red

Functional anatomy

Skeletal reconstruction, musculature, and mass. Putting extinct animals back together.