Top 40 Paleontology Influencers in 2026

1. Harrison Duran

Bio Paleontologist 🦕🦖, videographer | adventuring into the late Cretaceous of North America , ambassador @itiscolossal | ⛏ based in South Dakota *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @duranosaur Instagram Followers 414.3K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact Request 224 Paleontology Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at anuj@feedspot.com Copy emailEmail us

2. Jared Cooke

Bio documenting my paleontology journeyTexas A&M🇲🇳 Join us in Mongolia ⬇️ -Personal: @j_cooooke *****@yahoo.com Instagram Handle @jcookepaleo Instagram Followers 225.7K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

3. Mamlambo Fossils

Bio YouTube / TikTok Channel 🎥Paleontology and Geology 🦖🐧⛏Fossil prep 🦀Native tree planting 🌲🌳🌿 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @mamlambofossils Instagram Followers 149.6K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

4. Dr Dean Lomax

Bio Palaeontologist 🦕🐬🦖Author | Presenter | Ichthyosaur expert | — Adventurer 🌍 New book: "THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS" *****@bristol.ac.uk Instagram Handle @dean_r_lomax Instagram Followers 130K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

5. Reysuka

Bio Dino Mommy, Ph.D. 🦖IRL Paleontologist Dinosaur facts, cosplay & more 💕 Instagram Handle @reysuka_ Instagram Followers 311.3K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

6. Lisa Seline

Bio Dinosaurs, Fossils and more 🦖🐚Germany / Frankfurt am Main 🏙📩 *****@gmx.de @lisaselines_gallery 🦋🖌 Instagram Handle @dinogirl.lisaseline Instagram Followers 72.7K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

7. 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 67.8K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

8. 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 36.6K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

9. Charlotte Hohman

Bio 🧬 Biology M.S. student🌍 Ecology • Biodiversity • Climate🌋 B.S. Earth Sciences📍 Texas, USA Instagram Handle @charlottejhh Instagram Followers 23K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

10. 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 22.1K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

11. Skye Walker

Bio 🦴 Paleontologist🦖 Science Media & Field Tech @elevationscience🦕 Fossils, field work, outreach, research, & more! Instagram Handle @thedinomancer Instagram Followers 20.9K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

12. 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 19.6K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

13. Bárbara Aravena Berríos

Bio Soy Bióloga 🦋 Trabajo en Paleontología.Aquí hablamos de fósiles (en especial de 🇨🇱) y te cuento de mis experiencias ✨️ *****@ug.uchile.cl Instagram Handle @barby.paleontologa Instagram Followers 12.4K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

14. 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 12.4K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

15. 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 12.8K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

16. Evelyn Vollmer

Bio Hey there, Wanna talk about dinosaurs 🦖🦕3D scanning, 3D printing, 3D modeling.Paleontologist 🌎 Instagram Handle @evelyn_vollmer_ Instagram Followers 8.6K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

17. Filippo Bertozzo

Bio 🤠 Dinosaur paleontologist at @natural.sciences.belgium 🦕 Pathology, behaviour of dinosaurs🎲 D&D + dinosaurs 👉 @dicendinosaur🌍 explorer, adventurer Instagram Handle @dino_doctor Instagram Followers 7.2K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

18. Bethany Burke

Bio Paleo fun for everyone! Paleontologist, Sci Comm Educator, Fossil Preparator, Dino Fan, Mosasaur Lover 🦕🦖❤️ Texas Marine Paleo Researcher *****@bkbones.com Instagram Handle @bkbonesdinos Instagram Followers 7.6K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

19. Paleontology Enthusiast

Bio The journey of life throughout the eonsFrom 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

20. Paul C Sereno

Bio Paleontologist, archaeologist, Professor, adventurer *****@uchicago.edu Instagram Handle @paulserenoofficial Instagram Followers 7.9K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

21. Lee Hall

Bio 2025 Feedspot Top 40 #paleontology influencer. #Dinosaur #paleontologist. Expert in excavating and conserving #fossils. Opinions / images = me. Instagram Handle @paleeoguy Instagram Followers 3.5K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

22. 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

23. Keely Sweeney

Bio 🥼🔬 Fossil Preparator @fossil_oasis *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleokeely Instagram Followers 2.2K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

24. Monika

Bio 🦖 Dinosaury a kérky🦕 Dino fakty @paleontomonicka 🦎 Mosasaurus nie je dinosaurus 🦤 “GOJI10” 10% off @wolfpackclth *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @gojirasaurr Instagram Followers 244 Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

25. Julianna James

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

26. Andy Farke

Bio PaleontologistEducatorOpen science advocateHomebrewer Instagram Handle @AndyFarke Instagram Followers 1.4K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

27. Melchizedek

Bio *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleontologoamador Instagram Followers 1.2K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

28. 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 1.7K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

29. Alex Hastings

Bio Paleontologist, reptile enthusiast and all-around nerd. Instagram Handle @dr_crocogator Instagram Followers 1.2K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

30. Mary Athanasiou

Bio Geologist/palaeontologist. Phd in biostratigraphy and paleoceanography @cyprusgeolife Instagram Handle @mairyatha Instagram Followers 1.1K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

31. Erika Morgengrau

Bio Writer, musician, artist, dino enthusiast. Mad Max fanatic. Be curious and always take that dirt road. Live your life and have fun! Instagram Handle @erika_morgengrau Instagram Followers 990 Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

32. Rodrigo Horodyski

Bio Paleontólogo ⚒️Museu de História Geológica do Rio Grande do Sul @unisinos Instagram Handle @rodrigo.paleontologist Instagram Followers 30.4K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

33. dino.boiii

Bio Fossil Preparator and Paleoartist at TCM *****@happyhentoys.com Instagram Handle @paleo_plata Instagram Followers 895 Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

34. Alton Dooley

Bio Director of Western Science Center @westernsciencecenter. Paleontologist studying mastodons, whales, and whatever else shows up in my lab. Instagram Handle @altoncdooley Instagram Followers 873 Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

35. Timothy James

Bio Los Angeles, CA 🌴🌆Mitigation Paleontologist 🦖🦴Archaeologist 🤠🏺Actor in NM & LA 🎬📽Tiktok @hollywoodnaturalist Instagram Handle @hollywoodnaturalist Instagram Followers 1.8K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

36. Jonathas Bittencourt

Bio Laboratório de Paleontologia e Macroevolução (IGC/UFMG). Pesquisa e difusão da Paleontologia *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleontologia.ufmg Instagram Followers 1.3K Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

37. Larí

Bio INACTIVE 9-25-2024🌹ILM. This account will be public for science, impacts of social media, depression awareness. Suicide hotline text or call 988 Instagram Handle @paleopastels Instagram Followers 615 Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

38. Myria Perez

Bio All my favortite animals are extinct 🦖🦕🦣🦤Art Account ➡️ @myriadoodles *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @paleontologica Instagram Followers 14.3K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact