About me
After becoming established as a self taught artist specialising in reconstructing extinct species, I undertook a degree in bird palaeontology at the University of Portsmouth, followed by a PhD at the Natural History Museum, London. This provided an ... [more]
Publications & Media
Extinct Birds reviews. The Guardian. February 19th 2012 Sunday Express. April 15th, 2012 The Dodo’s changing Image. Reconstructing the Dodo Dodo slims down for new museum gallery   The following list includes articles for a general audience in... [more]
The Dodo
Many spectacular island terrestrial vertebrates have disappeared over the past few centuries – a minutia in terms of geological time – yet the pitiful epitaphs of these vanished species comprise frequently just a few bones and a handful of inadeq... [more]
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