13 Facts About Angela Milner

Angela Cheryl Milner was a British paleontologist who, in 1986 alongside Alan Charig, described the dinosaur Baryonyx.

Angela Milner initially planned to focus on microbiology for her university degree, but inspiring lectures from Alec Panchen made her change to palaeontology.

Angela Milner gained a BSc in zoology at Newcastle University and stayed there in 1969 to take a PhD in palaeontology supervised by Panchen focusing on the nectrideans, a group of Paleozoic tetrapods.

Angela Milner was Head of the Fossil Vertebrates Division in the Department of Palaeontology and was scientific leader behind the new Dinosaur Gallery at the museum that opened in 1992.

Angela Milner continued to work on meat-eating dinosaurs, and the earliest birds that had descended from them, for the rest of her career.

Angela Milner studied bird species from the Eocene period which are found in the southern England.

Angela Milner appreciated how the new technology of CT-scanning could be used to visualise the interior of fossils in details, which led to the installation of a suitable machine at the museum.

Angela Milner undertook field work in the UK and abroad in several locations including the US, the Sahara desert and, from the 1980s, China.

Angela Milner married Andrew Milner in 1972 whilst they were postgraduate students.

Angela Milner died on the morning of 13 August 2021, at the age of 73, following a short illness.

Angela Milner is the author or co-author of over 60 scientific publications.

Angela Milner continued to publish after her retirement and up to her death.

Angela Milner was co-author of The Natural History Museum Book of Dinosaurs.