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Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Acheulean tools from the Upper Son Valley of Central India.

The Acheulean technology represents a significant stage in the development of Human technology, appearing in East Africa around two million ...

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Two confirmed deaths following failureof mine tailings pond in Bolivia.

Two people have been confirmed dead, four people are being trated in jospital, and 47 homes have been destroyed following the collapse of a ...

Monday, 17 March 2025

The March Equinox.

The March Equinox will fall at 9.01 am GMT on Thursday 20 March this year. The Earth spins on its axis at an angle to the plain of the Solar...

Saturday, 15 March 2025

Studying Beaked Whales entangled in Tuna nets in the northwest Indian Ocean.

Beaked Whales, Ziphiidae, spend the majority of their time in deep oceanic waters, spending most of their lives beyond the continental shelv...

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Total lunar eclipse to be visible from the Americas.

A total Lunar Eclipse will occur on Friday 14 March 2025, starting at about 5.09 am GMT. It will be visible across the entire of the America...

Sunday, 9 March 2025

Inostrancevia africana: An Inostranceviine Gorgonopsian from the Metangula Graben of Northern Mozambique.

The Gorgonopsians were a distinctive group of Therapsid Reptiles known from the Middle-to-Late Permian. They were exclusively terrestrial, h...

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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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