- He was a world expert on ancient rodents, Ice Age mammals, Mesozoic birds and ancient marine life.
- Larry Martin served as a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a curator in vertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas, starting in 1972. He authored more than 170 scientific papers in journals and books, and he was the recipient of numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, NASA and other agencies and societies. His titles were Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the KU Natural History Museum and KU Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
- In Wyoming in 2002, he led a team of scientists who dug up the nearly intact skeleton of a Brachiosaurus, the long-necked dinosaur made famous in Jurassic Park (1993).
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