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Thursday, 24 July 2025

Pluto approaches opposition.

The Dwarf Planet Pluto will reach opposition (be directly on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun) at 6.24 am GMT on Friday 25 July 202...

Rypticus africanus: A new species of Soapfish from the eastern Atlantic.

Soapfish, Grammistes and Rypticus spp., are bottom-dwelling Perciform Fish related to Groupers, generally found on reefs and other rocky...

Saturday, 12 July 2025

Clay figurines from the Middle to Late Preclassic San Isidro Site of western El Salvador.

Bolinas-type figurines are clay figurines from the Middle Preclassic (1000-350 BC) and Late Preclassic (350 BC-250 AD) periods of Mesoameric...

Saturday, 5 July 2025

3I/Atlas: Third interstellar comet discovered.

On Tuesday 1 July 2025 scientists at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado , Chile, observed...

Friday, 4 July 2025

Necrosyrtes monachus: Mass death of Hooded Vultures reported in The Gambia.

A mass death event affecting Hooded Vultures, Necrosyrtes monachus , has occurred in the town of Gunjur, in Kombo South District, The Gambi...

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About Me

: I was interested in fossils from an early age, spending much of my childhood collecting on the coasts of England. Having left school in the 1980s with little opportunity to go on to higher education, I worked for the family business, and travelled more widely in Europe and North Africa, before eventually emigrating to The Gambia to work in tourism in 1990. While working in West Africa I was recruited by a mineral exploration company, which gave me the opportunity to travel much more widely, as well as the confidence to go to university when I returned to the UK. I studied palaeobiology at the University of Portsmouth, geosciences at the Open University, and ecology at Christchurch University, before settling into a career in environmental chemistry. I have worked in commercial labs assessing water and soil quality, at schools and colleges, as well as the universities of Nottingham and Warwick, and am currently employed at the University of Northampton. I am still an enthusiastic naturalist and fossil enthusiast in my own time, and regularly visit sites of interest around the UK and beyond, and write pop-science articles for a range of publications.

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