Top 40 Paleontology Influencers in 2026

1. Paul C Sereno

Bio Paleontologist, archaeologist, Professor, adventurer *****@uchicago.edu Instagram Handle @paulserenoofficial Instagram Followers 11K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact Request 219 Paleontology Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Copy emailEmail us

2. Stephen Brusatte

Bio Paleontologist and professor at University of Edinburgh
Dinosaur enthusiast and writer
Science consultant for Jurassic World *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @steve.brusatte Instagram Followers 17K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

3. Dr Dean Lomax

Bio Palaeontologist 🦕🐬🦖
Author | Presenter | Ichthyosaur Expert, Dinosaurs & More | — Adventurer 🌍 New book: "THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS" *****@bristol.ac.uk Instagram Handle @dean_r_lomax Instagram Followers 135.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

4. Gabriel Ugueto

Bio Miami Freelance Paleoartist, Illustrator & Creature Designer for clients like Apple TV+, BBC, Nat Geo and more🦎
Contact: *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @serpenillus Instagram Followers 102.7K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

5. Darren Naish

Bio Dinosaurs, reptiles, mammals, cryptozoology. Natural historian, zoologist, author. Blog Tetrapod Zoology tetzoo.com. DinoCon leader. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @tetzoo Instagram Followers 13.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

6. Jingmai O’Connor

Bio Associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Chicago Field Museum studying the early evolution of birds and other flying dinosaurs AKA dead bird nerd 🦤 *****@fieldmuseum.org Instagram Handle @paleontologista Instagram Followers 16K Follower Growth (3mo) +16% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

7. Dr Mark Witton

Bio Palaeoartist, palaeontologist, author, consultant & creature designer. More about me: markwitton.co.uk; support my work: www.patreon.com/markwitton *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @mark_witton Instagram Followers 15.7K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

8. Kallie Moore

Bio Science Communicator
🦕Host - @eonsshow
🦣Manager - Paleo Collection at @umontana
📖 Author - Tales of the Prehistoric World *****@mso.umt.edu Instagram Handle @fossil_librarian Instagram Followers 22.2K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

9. Aaron Smith and Shae

Bio Geology and Palaeontology 🦖 All content is ours, unearthed from the Jurassic 🦕 TikTok / YouTube @Yorkshire.Fossils
• Open your very own fossil! ⬇️ *****@mail.com Instagram Handle @yorkshire.fossils Instagram Followers 2.8M Type Mega Get Email Contact

10. Harrison Duran

Bio Paleontologist 🦕🦖, videographer | adventuring into the late Cretaceous of North America , ⛏ based in South Dakota *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @duranosaur Instagram Followers 440.1K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

11. Reysuka

Bio Dino Mommy, Ph.D. 🦖
IRL Paleontologist 🦕
Dinosaur science, cosplay + more 💕 Instagram Handle @reysuka_ Instagram Followers 364.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

12. Jared Cooke

Bio documenting my paleontology journey
Texas A&M
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Personal account: @j_cooooke *****@yahoo.com Instagram Handle @jcookepaleo Instagram Followers 243.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

13. Mamlambo Fossils

Bio YouTube / TikTok Channel 🎥
Paleontology and Geology 🦖🐧⛏
Fossil prep 🦀
Native tree planting 🌲🌳🌿 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @mamlambofossils Instagram Followers 145.7K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

14. Lisa Seline

Bio Dinosaurs, Fossils & Co. 🦖
Explaining the world of paleontology 🔬🐚
Adventurer ⚒️✨️
📩 *****@gmx.de @lisaselines_gallery🦋🖌 Instagram Handle @dinogirl.lisaseline Instagram Followers 92.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +12% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

15. Amy Atwater

Bio Director of Paleontology @dinosaur.ridge | Author: The Fossil Keeper’s Treasure | Co-host @weirdanddead | President @coloradoscientificsociety *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @mary_annings_revenge Instagram Followers 68.9K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

16. Eliza Petersen

Bio I find dinosaurs in my spare time 🦖✨
🦕 HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE 🦕
All thoughts are my own Instagram Handle @lizemopetey Instagram Followers 36.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

17. Brennan Martens

Bio Named a New Species of Mosasaur
Daily Anomalocaris & Cambrian Posts
⛏️Vancouver Paleontological Society ⚒️
#bcfossils & #hainosaurusboubker Instagram Handle @brennanthepaleodude Instagram Followers 30.4K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

18. Rodrigo Horodyski

Bio Paleontólogo ⚒️
@mhgeounisinos Museu de História Geológica do Rio Grande do Sul
@ittoceaneon Instituto de Paleoceanografia e Mudanças Climáticas Instagram Handle @rodrigo.paleontologist Instagram Followers 29.4K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

19. Skye Walker

Bio Dinosaur paleontologist with @elevationscience 🦕🦖
Science communicator
Fossils, research, museums, outreach, and more!
📍Alabama Instagram Handle @thedinomancer Instagram Followers 22.4K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

20. Katherine Parsons

Bio 🏛️ Geologist & Paleontologist 🦖
💙 B.S. MTSU | M.S. @ UofM 🎓
🗺️ Researching stratigraphy in Cretaceous TN 📚
🔗 Links to my science + side quests ⬇️ *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @katie.digs.dinos Instagram Followers 19.5K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

21. Bárbara Aravena Berríos

Bio Paleontóloga | Lic. en Biología U.Chile 🦕
Divulgando ciencia 🦖📚
🎙Hablemos de ciencia y fósiles 🦋
💌 *****@gmail.com
Cursos y más ⤵️ Instagram Handle @barby.paleontologa Instagram Followers 13.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +13% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

22. Filippo Bertozzo

Bio Dinosaur paleontologist at @cerena.pt @tecnico_ulisboa
TTRPG dinosaur storytelling @dicendinosaur
Paleo-Explorer, adventurer
@eu_science MSCA Fellow Instagram Handle @dino_doctor Instagram Followers 9.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +9% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

23. Bethany Burke

Bio Paleo fun for everyone! Paleontologist, Sci Comm Educator, Fossil Preparator 🦕🦖❤️ Texas Paleo Researcher *****@bkbones.com Instagram Handle @bkbonesdinos Instagram Followers 7.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

24. Paleontology Enthusiast

Bio The journey of life throughout the eons
From the weirdest invertebrates in the Cambrian 🦂,
to the monsters of the Jurassic 🦕 *****@hotmail.com Instagram Handle @_paleo_enthusiast Instagram Followers 4.6K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

25. Keely Sweeney

Bio 🥼🔬 Fossil Preparator @fossil_oasis *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleokeely Instagram Followers 2.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

26. Dr. Jasmina Wiemann

Bio I am a Molecular Paleobiologist researching what biomolecule fossilization products can tell us about the history of life on Earth and beyond! *****@jhu.edu Instagram Handle @jasmina_wiemann Instagram Followers 2K Follower Growth (3mo) +6% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

27. Alex Hastings

Bio Paleontologist, reptile enthusiast and all-around nerd. Instagram Handle @dr_crocogator Instagram Followers 1.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +10% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

28. Christopher Plouffe

Bio Paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Instagram Handle @your.favorite.paleontologist Instagram Followers 2.6K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

29. Julianna James

Bio Art🔹Fossils 🔹Photos 🔹Wildlife
old bones - TFF
Link to YouTube channel from Instagram Handle @juls_fossilsandnature Instagram Followers 1.6K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

30. Myria Perez

Bio All my favortite animals are extinct
🦖🦕🦣🦤
Art Account ➡️ @myriadoodles *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleontologica Instagram Followers 14K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

31. Evelyn Vollmer

Bio Hey there, Wanna talk about dinosaurs 🦖🦕
3D scanning, 3D printing, 3D modeling.
Paleontologist 🌎 Instagram Handle @evelyn_vollmer_ Instagram Followers 8.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

32. Lee Hall

Bio 2025/26 Feedspot Top 40 #paleontology influencer. #Dinosaur #paleontologist. Expert in digging #fossils. Author of Gems for Kids. 📸 @ray.troll Instagram Handle @paleeoguy Instagram Followers 3.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

33. Melchizedek

Bio *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleontologoamador Instagram Followers 1.2K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

34. Andy Farke

Bio Paleontologist
Educator
Open science advocate
Homebrewer Instagram Handle @andyfarke Instagram Followers 1.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

35. Erika Morgengrau

Bio Fossil preparator, paleoartist, musician. Dead thing enthusiast. Be curious and always take that dirt road. Live your life and have fun! Instagram Handle @erika_morgengrau Instagram Followers 1K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

36. Timothy James

Bio San Jose Village, Tinian, Marianas Islands🌴
Mitigation Paleontologist 🦖🦴
Archaeologist 🤠🏺
Actor in NM & LA 🎬📽
Tiktok @hollywoodnaturalist Instagram Handle @hollywoodnaturalist Instagram Followers 1.8K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

37. Mary Athanasiou

Bio Geologist/palaeontologist. Phd in biostratigraphy and paleoceanography
@cyprusgeolife Instagram Handle @mairyatha Instagram Followers 1.1K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

38. Lindsay Nikole

Bio zoologist
📧: *****@lindsaynikole.com
youtube, my book, etc. ⬇️ Instagram Handle @lindsay_nikole Instagram Followers 851.7K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact