Facts: - employer: north carolina state university - citizenship: united states and canada - birth date: 27 december 1937 - name: dale russell - ethnicity: caucasian - nationality: american - occupation: professor Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dale russell .
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dale a. russell -lrb- born december 27 , 1937 -rrb- is a canadian geologist/palaeontologist , currently research professor at the department of marine earth and atmospheric sciences -lrb- meas -rrb- of north carolina state university .dinosaurs he has described include '' daspletosaurus '' and he was amongst first paleontologists to consider an extraterrestrial cause -lrb- supernova , comet , asteroid -rrb- for the extinction of the dinosaurs .he is also credited with inventing the controversial dinosauroid thought experiment .russell 's dinosauroid was criticized as being too anthropomorphic .