Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), responsible for coining terms such as phylum, phylogeny, ontogeny. An advocate of scientific racism. Sporting proto-Nazi Social Darwinist views. Honorary invited member of the German Society for Racial Hygiene.

Louis Agassiz, professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, founder of their Museum of Comparative Zoology, and promotor of an idea of an "ice age". Also, vocal supporter of a racist idea of "polygenism" (pictured) and promoting scientific racism.

William Buckland, responsible for naming Megalosaurus. Below communicating the need for women to not attend academic lectures in Oxford, where he was a lecturer (and relied on his wife to transcribe, illustrate his own papers, and curate geological collections)

Henry De la Beche, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. A palaeontologist cited for creating one of first pieces of palaeoart, Duria Antiquior. Owner of Sugar Plantation, Halse Hall in Jamaica, and 200 enslaved people.