Michael K. Brett-Surman is a noted paleontologist and is currently serving as the Museum Specialist for Dinosaurs, Fossil Reptiles, and Amphibians at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. He also co-teaches a K-12 geoscience teacher field series of three courses in geology and paleontology through the Bighorn Basin Geoscience Center, which is part of the Smithsonian Outreach program. He is the author of The Jurassic World Field Guide to Dinosaurs with Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., and the coeditor of The Complete Dinosaur.