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Date Posted: October 24, 2008
Andrei Sher, noted Russian vertebrate paleontologist, died Aug. 11, 2008

Andrei Sher of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, died unexpectedly of a heart attack on August 11, 2008. Sher was an authority on the paleoecology of the Siberian tundra-steppe biome.

Biography courtesy of Margarita Erbajeva.
Photo courtesy of Alisa Winkler.

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