Alexander Omar Vargas Milne is a Paleontologist and Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile and the director of EVOTEM.
His work includes the discovery that Duck-Billed dinosaurs survived into the last days of the dinosaurs.[1]
Alexander is a paleontologist instrumental in the discovery of many South American discoveries, such as Stegouros, Magallanodon, Chilesaurus, and the previously unknown lineages of relict hadrosaurids in Chile (https://dinodata.de/bibliothek/pdf_r/2023/sciadv.adg2456.pdf).
He has appeared on US television and spoken at conferences all over the world. His recent work focuses on discoveries of late cretaceous mammals and the Stegouros.
References
- Alarcón-Muñoz, Jhonatan; Vargas, Alexander O.; Püschel, Hans P.; Soto-Acuña, Sergio; Manríquez, Leslie; Leppe, Marcelo; Kaluza, Jonatan; Milla, Verónica; Gutstein, Carolina S.; Palma-Liberona, José; Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang; Frey, Eberhard; Pino, Juan Pablo; Bajor, Dániel; Núñez, Elaine; Ortiz, Héctor; Rubilar-Rogers, David; Cruzado-Caballero, Penélope (16 June 2023). "Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile". Science Advances. 9 (24) eadg2456. Bibcode:2023SciA....9G2456A. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adg2456. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 10275600. PMID 37327335.