Yoshitsugu Kobayashi

Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (小林 快次, Kobayashi Yoshitsugu, born 1971) is a Japanese vertebrate paleontologist. He is a professor and the assistant director in Hokkaido University Museum. His major achievements include the description and naming of several dinosaurs from Japan, for example, Kamuysaurus, Yamatosaurus and Paralitherizinosaurus. He is also a research affiliate of Perot Museum of Nature and Science,

Education Yoshitsugu Kobayashi was born in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In junior high school, he was interested in ammonites and spent after-school hours and holidays excavating fossils. After graduating from junior high school, he went on to Fukui Prefectural Koshi High School. During his first year of high school, he participated in an excavation in Fukui Prefecture, where dinosaur fossils were discovered for the first time in the prefecture, which sparked his strong interest in dinosaurs.

He met an employee of Yokohama National University through the above-mentioned research and entered the university.

Career and academic contributions He also became a curator at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum during his doctoral studies. and was promoted to assistant professor in 2008, associate professor in 2009, and professor in 2019. During his career, he has received some awards in Japan. He has also contributed to naming some new species of dinosaurs, including the ornithopod Fukuisaurus tetoriensis, therizinosaurian Jianchangosaurus yixianensis, hesperornithean Chupkaornis keraorum, hadrosaurids Kamuysaurus japonicus and Yamatosaurus izanagii, and the therizinosaurids Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus and Duonychus tsogtbaatari.

He has supervised some of NHK's dinosaur programs, including Amazing Dinoworld (2019).